Career
Maryse Éwanjé-Épée set her outdoor personal best on July 21, 1985, jumping 1.96 metres at the French National Athletics Championships in Colombes, France. That was a French national outdoor record that was not bettered or equalled for the next 22 years. Melanie Melfort equalled it by jumping 1.96 metres on August 11, 2007.
Éwanjé-Épée"s indoor personal best was 1.95 metres, set in 1984.
She competed for France in the high jump in two consecutive Summer Olympics in 1984 and 1988. She finished 4th and 10th in the Olympic high jump final of 1984 and 1988 respectively.
She could not take part in the 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics because of her failure to clear the minimum Olympic qualifying height by a mere centimetre for both of these Olympics. Éwanjé-Épée also attended the University of Arizona, in Tucson (United States of America) and she still holds the heptathlon record since that time.
She held the National Collegiate Athletic Association high jump record from 1985 to 1996 with 1.96 meters.
In 1985, Arizona went 1-2-3 in the National Collegiate Athletic Association with Katrena Johnson in first place, Maryse Éwanjé-Epéee in second, and Camille Harding in third. After her retirement from high jumping competition in 1996, Éwanjé-Épée worked as a television sports interviewer, sports administrator, sport consultant and radio/television presenter. Éwanjé-Épée speaks French, English and Spanish fluently.
Éwanjé-Épée"s father, Charles Éwanjé-Épée, is a Camerounian guitarist-singer-songwriter.
Her mother, Geneviève Pujol, had a Spanish Catalan grandfather. Maryse Éwanjé-Épée married Marc Maury in 1988.
She and Marc Maury divorced in 2007.