A healthy Jasmine Todd is ready to do some damage for Oregon at the NCAA Indoor

Oregon competes in the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships

Oregon's Jasmine Todd takes flight in the long jump at the 2014 NCAA Indoor.

(Thomas Boyd/The Oregonian)

EUGENE - Jasmine Todd's body is in one piece again, which is a good thing for the Oregon Ducks as they head into the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships.

The Ducks are working on a streak of five consecutive women's NCAA Indoor titles. Todd, entered in the 60 meters and the long jump, will be a big part of Oregon's bid for No. 6.

She was third in the 60 and sixth in the long jump indoors last year, and has the college level's second-best 60 time this year.

Todd and Jenna Prandini, who is ranked in the top five in three events, look like the two Ducks with the most big-point potential in this year's meet, which begins Friday at the Randal Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

"If we just go out and there and do the best we can there will be no disappointment," Todd says. "The only disappointment would be if we didn't do the best we can."

Todd clocked a 60 time of 7.15 seconds in January that was the fastest 2015 time in the world when she ran it, and currently stands ninth on this year's world list.

"She has some crazy talent," Prandini says

Prandini should know. She and Todd do track workouts, jumping workouts and weight workouts together.

On top of that, they are best friends.

"They're darn near Siamese Twins," Oregon coach Robert Johnson says. "They do everything together. They live together, they stretch together, they come to the track together.

Sometimes, Johnson says, he wants to tell his dynamic duo, "Ah, go hang out with someone else."

Proximity gives Prandini insight into what Todd might do with all that talent in Fayetteville.

"She is going to show it this week," Prandini says.

Of course, talent wasn't ever Todd's issue. Health was.

She was a big-time recruit from Chandler, Arizona in suburban Phoenix, and already had signed with Oregon when she blew out her left ACL practicing the triple jump as a high school senior.

"The only part that really worried me was having to call coach Johnson and tell him," Todd says. "I remember calling and saying, 'Don't be mad at me. Promise you won't be mad.' And he's like, 'What did you do?'"

She told him and waited through a long pause on the other end of the conversation.

Then Todd remembers Johnson saying: "Is this some kind of sick joke?"

Truth is, Johnson was willing to be patient, and trust the doctors and the healing process.

Jasmine Todd

He took a chance on injured sprinter English Gardner in 2010. Gardner left Oregon after three seasons to turn professional with three individual NCAA sprint championships in hand.

"Just because you have an injury doesn't mean that talent goes anywhere," he says.

Todd redshirted in 2013. But Johnson liked what he saw in practice and in two meets in which Todd competed unattached.

She hit the ground running last year, and had an excellent indoor season as a redshirt freshman. Todd was en route to a strong outdoor season too when she began to feel pain in her right foot.

The pain was manageable until it wasn't, which happened between the first and second days of the Pac-12 Championships last May.

X-rays revealed a broken bone.

Todd had had a good first day at the Pac-12s, finishing fourth in the long jump, qualifying for the 100 final and running a leg on the Ducks' 4x100.

"She did all of that on this on a quote, unquote, broken toe," Johnson says.

But she would do no more. Todd's outdoor season was over.

She watched the NCAA Outdoor Championships from the sidelines, and saw the UO women fall short of a team title while placing third.

"A sucky situation," Todd says. "That was definitely really hard."

Which brings us to 2015, and some unfinished business.

What happened last year - and what didn't happen - have sharpened Todd's focus and ramped up her intensity.

"I had some goals that I didn't meet," she says. "So I'm excited to get out there, meet those goals, and surpass them."

Don't bet against her. Prandini won't.

She has watched Todd twice work through recovery and rehab, and gauged her determination.

"She fought and she has worked really hard," Prandini says. "Now she is one of the best jumpers in the nation and one of the fastest women in the world."

-- Ken Goe

kgoe@oregonian.com

503-221-8040 | @KenGoe

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