Hall of Fame
Givens last competed in track & field as a Missouri Southern State University student-athlete in 1995, yet her name continues to dominate the school’s history of track & field. Givens still holds many of the top 10 outdoor marks in both the triple jump and the long jump. Indoors, Givens has many of the top ten marks ever in the long and triple jump. She is the only female in school history to surpass 41 feet in the outdoor triple jump and one of two to surpass 20 feet in the long jump.
Givens was an eight-time All-America at MSSU, including national championships in the triple jump in 1994 (outdoor) and 1995 (indoor). She collected three MIAA high-point individual awards during her Southern career and held each Southern record in the triple jump and long jump at the time of her graduation, and held the MIAA meet record for the outdoor triple jump until 2018.
In 1993, Givens was named MSSU’s Female Athlete of the Year and claimed the honor again in 1995, the same year she also won the E.O. & Virginia Humphrey Award, given to the institution’s outstanding student-athlete of the year.
In the 2003 indoor season, she had the third-best U.S. women's triple jump mark and the eighth-best long jump. Givens trained at MSSU in 2000 and went on to qualify and compete in the 2000 Olympic Trials. She also qualified for the 2004 Olympic Trials.
Givens was inducted into the MSSU Athletics Hall of Fame in 2004.
