USF Athletic Hall of Fame
The first six-time All-American in USF Athletics history, O’Neal also won six conference championships in the triple jump, claiming both indoor and outdoor titles in the Big East in 2013 and indoor titles in The American in 2015 and 2016 and outdoors in 2014 and 2016. He qualified for the NCAA Championships six times and claimed All-America honors outdoors four times from 2013-16 and indoors twice from 2015-16. He placed as high as second indoors (2016) and third outdoors (2016) at the NCAA Championships and was a nine-time all-conference honoree in the triple and long jumps, placing second in the long jump outdoors and third indoors in the years he didn’t win the title and third in the triple jump in the one year he didn’t claim the conference crown between 2013-16.
O’Neal posted a top seven national NCAA triple jump mark four times outdoors, reaching as high as No. 2 with a leap of 55-9 3/4, and twice indoors, reaching as high as No. 3 with a leap of 54-8. O’Neal set USF records for the triple jump both indoors (54-8) and outdoors (55-9 ¾) and owns the fifth-best mark in the long jump both indoors (23-6 ¾) and outdoors (24-10). His leap of 55-9 ¾ at the 2016 NCAA East Preliminary was the eighth-best mark in the world that year.
He finished fourth at the NACAC Athletic Association's Under 23 International Athletics Championships held in Canada in 2014 and went on to success after his USF career, placing fifth at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials in the triple jump and sixth in the 2018 USA Track and Field Indoor Championships.
A dual-sport collegiate athlete, O’Neal also competed for the USF men’s soccer team as a defender and saw action in 32 career games from 2013-14 and scored two goals, including a game winner in 2014. He was part of the men’s soccer team’s 2013 American Athletic Conference Tournament championship.
O’Neil was inducted into the USF Athletic Hall of Fame on Nov. 13, 2021 as part of the three-member Class of 2020 (induction delayed one year due to COVID-19 pandemic).
