LARAMIE – Remar Pitter is taking a simple approach to the NCAA West Outdoor Track & Field Championships First Round.

Wyoming's standout long jumper, who is coming off a third-place finish at the Mountain West Championships to earn all-conference status, has a calm, competitive demeanor entering the four-day event which begins Wednesday in College Station, Texas.
 
"Relax and let it rip," Pitter said.
 
Pitter, a junior from Gillette, currently ranks fourth on UW's all-time outdoor long jump list with a career-best mark of 25 feet, 2 ½ inches set while winning the Kit Mayer Classic on April 12 in Golden, Colo.
 
Entering the West preliminary, which includes 48 long jumpers, Pitter has the nation's No. 23 outdoor mark. The top 12 finishers will advance to the NCAA Championships June 11-14 at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore.
 
"I feel amazing. My body feels right, my mind is right, I'm just ready to get on the road and start jumping," Pitter said. "I feel like this (meet) should be the one that's going to set me up for the future. I've got one more year left. I feel like if I get this one right, next year will be even better and easier."
 
In December 2023, Pitter broke the UW indoor long jump record owned by Charles Thomas (25-8 ½) since 1965. However, teammate Kareem Mersal (26-3 ¾) eclipsed Pitter's mark if 25-10 ¼ in 2024.
 
Mersal also holds the school outdoor long jump record (26-3 ¾) and earned All-American second team honors after winning the MW and then finishing 16^th at the NCAA Championships in 2022.
 
At the 2024 NCAA Indoor Championships in Boston, Mersal finished 11^th and Pitter 15^th as both Pokes earned All-American status.
 
"I feel like Kareem definitely played a huge part in helping me break that record," Pitter said. "Because of our back and forth jumping and battling. I wouldn't be here right now without that (competition)."
 
Longtime UW jumps coach Quincy Howe, who still owns the program's indoor and outdoor triple jump records, has helped develop Pitter from a two-time state champion at Campbell County High School into one of the best track and field athletes in the MW.
 
Pitter grew up in Jamaica before moving to Gillette at the age of 11. Howe represented his native Trinidad & Tobago at the 2003 Pan-Am Games before joining the UW coaching staff.
 
"There are just levels to it, and I feel like Quincy as a coach, he has definitely helped me learn so many things," Pitter said. "I feel like the Mountain West (Championship meet) was just a steppingstone to accomplish something even greater."

The long jump first round will begin at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday on ESPN+.
 
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