 Complete the following phrase:  Kitchens ranked top ten in the long jump at both the American indoor and outdoor championships in his first year as a professional in 2006. He competed sparingly in the 2007 and 2008 seasons. He re-emerged in 2009 with a fourth-place finish at the USA Indoor Track and Field Championships, followed by a podium finish at the USA Outdoors, taking third with a mark of 8.23 m. Typically this would have gained him a spot for the World Championships squad, but because the mark was wind-aided and he did not possess the A qualifying standard, he did not get called up. He began to compete in Europe for the first time that year and set a new best of 7.98 m at a meeting in Salamanca, Spain. He failed to build on this in 2010 and he finished out of the top ten at the 