Hall of Fame
Tongula (Givens) Steddum - Missouri Southern
Women’s Track & Field Student-Athlete (1993-1995)
Givens still holds many of the top-10 outdoor marks in both the triple jump and the long jump. She is one of two women in school history to surpass 41 feet in the outdoor triple jump and one of three to surpass 19 feet in the indoor 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 career as a Lion and held program records 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.