It took two jumps for #TeamTTO's Kelsey Daniel to drop some Tobago heat and stamp his name on the @NMJCTbirds record books, setting a NMJC #SR of 7.74m (25'4 ¾") at last weekend's Corky Classic in Lubbock, TX
Daniel finished 4th in Friday's Red Raider Open in 7.47m
@NMJCTbirds At the Red Raider Open Men's 400m Finals Kentucky senior Dwight St Hillaire led the way in a time of 46.11
St Hillaire would then return with @UKAthletics -A and open for Brian Faust, Jacob Smith & Kennedy Lightner to win with a time of 3:06.86—which is 8th on the UK record books
Also at the Red Raider Open in the Men's 60mH, Justin Guy [South Plains @spctexans] was 9th in 8.09 and narrowly missed out on the event final
Barton County CC freshman Marcus Purcell was 34th in the men's 60m in a time of 7.13
On the women's side, Rae-Anne Serville [SJCPOS, Memphis, USC] was 14th in the 400m with a time of 55.64
This is the fastest season opening run for the @TTOlympic Junior Sportswoman OTY @USC_Athletics
In the Women's 600yd final, Camille Lewis [South Plains] won Section 3 in 1:26.66 and ran 10th overall
Lewis is 8th in the NJCAA for the 600m @spctexans A won Section 5 and was 11th overall in the 4x400 relay, with Lewis anchoring Umukoro, Phillips & Simmons in a time of 3:54.01
At last week's Corky Classic 60mH in Lubbock, Texas, New Mexico JC's Che Saunders [Bishop's HS, Kaizen Panthers] ran 15th in 8.45 @NMJCTbirds
At the Samford Invitational, held in the Birmingham Crossplex Friday in Birmingham, Alabama, former @AlabamaTrack All-American @RuebinWalters blasted to a 7.79 in the 60mH
The time is a #TeamTTO sprint hurdles lead and #34th on the world list
Ayla Stanisclaus [Scarborough Sec, RSS Phoenix, Alabama] missed Friday's Samford Invite 60m final by the slimest margin, placing 9th in the prelim in a time of 7.69
📸Otto Horiuchi / rolltide.com / @AlabamaTrack
After putting up a 6th-best semifinal time of 6.85 Adell Coltrust [Abilene Wildcats, Jackson State] would have a false start in the Samford Invite 60m final @GoJSUTigers
At the Carolina Challenge Eric Harrison Jr [@StJohnsCHS Ohio State] stormed to a 6.73 (just a hair off his PB) in the 60m final, trimming a tenth off his qualifying time of 6.83 and backed it up with another strong podium, running 21.16 in the 200m final for silver @OhioStateTFXC
At the Larry Wieczorek Invitational in Iowa City Naomi Campbell [PFNJ, Purdue] set a new PB of 7.68 en route to a 13th place finish in the 60m
Campbell would also post a 25.37 9th in the 200m final
At the same event, Ianna Roach [Iowa] threw 14.20m to finish 8th in the Shot Put
At the JD Martin in Norman, Oklahoma [Kaizen, UAPB] multisport athlete Franklyn Stanislaus had a complete shakedown with:
6th in the 60H (8.45)
7th 60H prelim (8.62)
3rd in the 4x400 (3:26.85)
8th in the Long Jump (6.24m)
and 11th in the Shot Put (10.75m) @UAPBLionsRoar
At the NAIA/Juco Invitational in Pittsburg, Kansas, Memphis Pioneers' most recent export, Aarin Simon opened his collegiate career at University of Science & Arts of Oklahoma with a 2:00.93 run in the 800m for 8th place
At the Hokie Invitational in Blacksburg, VA Tamia Badal [Concordia/Colorado/UCF] was close to PB form placing 2nd in the 60mH Prelim Heat#3 in a time of 8.60
She ran 8.62 in the final to cop 7th
Badal would then run 41.48 in Section 7 of the 300m final for 20th place @UCFKnights
At the Vanderbilt Invitational Iantha Wright [Falcons, Life] tickled her PB in the 60m prelims with a third-fastest 7.53. She then smashed a new PR with a 7.47 to take bronze. Wright then grabbed 6th in the 200m with another PB time of 24.35, also for bronze @LifeUTrack
Jalen Purcell had a strong performance at the Dr MLK Jr Collegiate Invitational in Albuquerque NM in the 60m where he ran 6.77 in his season debut for West Texas A&M to finish 3rd
The performance shot Purcell to 11th on the DII quals and #3 on the #TeamTTO#TopList@WTAMUTrackXC
Red Raider Open Men's 200m B-Section finals, Timothy Frederick [Simplex, New Mexico JC] ran 22.27 to lead Section #6 but would place 13th overall for the @NMJCTbirds
Northwest Missouri State @bearcatsports played host to the Northwest Open at the Hughes Fieldhouse on Saturday, and recent transfer Aaron Brewster made sure his name was calling, with a 6.94 run into third
Brewster is 5th on the #TeamTTO 60m #TopList
Another transfer was in action for his new school, as Clement Campbell was at home for Pittsburgh's Nittany Lion Challenge
Campbell ran a new 60m PB of 6.94 in the prelim and 7.00 to finish 7th in the final
However, Campbell never got in a mark, as he fouled all three in the TJ
In more Week 8 #TeamTTO updates:
At the Bellarmine Open in Louisville KY, Bishops High/Kaizen Panthers and Union KY multisport athlete Jamellia Potts threw 11.85m on her second-to-last attempt to win the women's Shot Put @UnionBulldogs
Dr MLK Jr Collegiate Invitational Women's 60m Finals Jenea Spinks [California] ran a third-place 7.47, which was a tenth of a second better than her opening round run and puts the Concorde/Holy Name Convent sprinter into the #TeamTTO#TopList top three @CalTFXC
Vanderbilt Invitational Anya Akili [Kaizen, Tennessee Tech] did not start the final event of the Women's Pentathlon which resulted in her not recording a score
However, Akili had several top-10 placings on the day:
6th 60mH (9.36, 836pts)
8th Shot Put (8.72m, 446pts)
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9th High Jump (1.51m, 632pts)
8th Long Jump (5.18m, 609pts)
Akili's projected score would have put her into the top 5 of the PENT @TNTech_XC_TF
Michigan Invitational in Ann Arbor MI, Alisha St Louis [Eastern Michigan] senior had a series of 10.69m, 11.04m, 10.70m to record a tenth place in the Triple Jump @ariipooh4@EMUXC_TF
Notre Dame Invitational Men's 60m, DePaul freshman Dominic Cole [QRC, Abilene] opened with a 2nd best prelim time of 6.98 but Cole would not start the final
However, he would contest the 200m less than 2hrs later. Cole was 2nd in Section4 in a time of 23.10 for 12th @DePaulXCTF
At the @CycloneTrackXC Cyclone Open on Saturday, Akilah Lewis [BAHS, Concorde, Minnesota] repeated her 7.36 PB from a week before to slot into second in a Gopher 60m podium sweep with Amira Young (7.33) & Odell Frye (7.43) >>>
>> @speedy_smiley10 then dropped half a second off her 200m time to grab second in a new indoor PB of 24.35
Lewis tops the #TeamTTO Week 8 #TopList in 60m and tied #1 with Iantha Wright on 200m
She is #10 200m and #3 on the 60m @GopherCCTF all-time school records
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Top 8 advanced to the Elite Men Sprint 1/4 Final
H1 🇹🇹Kwesi BROWNE✅✅ | 🇨🇺Tony GARCIA LASAGA
H2 🇹🇹Zion PULIDO✅✅ | 🇯🇲Lamin WRIGHT
H3 🇨🇺Brayan LOPEZ PEREZ✅✅ | 🇹🇹Kyle CARABY
H4 🇹🇹Ryan D'ABREAU✅✅ | 🇯🇲Malik REID
Semis will be:
🇹🇹BROWNE v D'ABREAU🇹🇹
🇹🇹PULIDO v LOPEZ PEREZ🇨🇺
In the Junior Men Sprint 200m Qualifying:
🇹🇹Samuel MELONEY 11.178
🇹🇹Devante LAURENCE 11.277
🇹🇹Jarel MOHAMMED 11.306
🇹🇹Raul GARCIA 11.346
Samuel will face Garcia and Laurence will ride Mohammed in the semifinal tonight
2022 Caribbean Track Cycling Championships
Day 1 Livestream
🇨🇺CUBA women set a hot pace with 4:59.039 in the Team Pursuit!
Automatic gold medal as they are the only team on the track
Aylena QUEVEDO ALVAREZ
Daymelin PEREZ QUEZADA
Claudia BARO ARANGO
Evelin DIAZ MATOS
🇨🇺CUBA men do the Team Pursuit double, winning gold in 4:21.642 against #TeamTTO men who did 4:22.987
CUBA
Leandro MARCOS VIDUEIRO
Alejandro PARRA PEREZ
DouglasPARRADO VAZQUEZ
Gian Carlos HERNANDEZ MORAN
🇹🇹T&T U23
Maurice BURNETTE
Enrique DE COMARMOND
Liam TREPTE
Tariq WOODS
Welcome to the @ttgameplan#KingstonCARIFTA2022 Day 1 coverage #TeamTTO athletes Tenique Vincent and Gianna Paul both over the bar at 1.55m in the GU17 high jump as the event starts
Tenique has already started the HEP with the 100mH but no result posted as yet
Plot Twist: Both GiGi and Tenique were in the HEP and
Gianna was third in the 100mH in 15.83 [w: -0.9] and starts with 735pts, while Tenique Vincent was 5th in 15.94 [W: -0.9] to take 722pts
Both athletes are over 1.60m in the individual HJ
we have 2 athletes batting for the gold with the bar now at 1.70m in the GU17 HJ
Danielle Noble 🇯🇲
Tenique Vincent 🇹🇹
and GiGi bowing out at 1.65m
#TeamTTO Week 7 Indoor wrap THREAD
T&T's Tokyo relay hero Dwight St Hillaire [Kaizen Panthers] kicked off the year with a NCAA DI 7th best 200m time of 21.02 to win the Jim Green Track & Field Invitational
St Hillaire would then join Kentucky teammates Brian Faust, Lance Lang & Kennedy Lightner to drop a World and DI lead 4x400 Relay with a 3:05.01
📸 @UKAthletics
Jerod Elcock [Abeline Wildcats, Butler CC] had a busy weekend, starting with with a 3rd place 6.71 in the 60m dash at the Wichita State Shocker Prelude on JAN 13. The race put him at the top of the TeamTTO list for the season
UPDATE from today's NCAA East Preliminary
Men Javelin
3 Tyriq HORSFORD Miss State 75.51m
[Top 12 Advance to Eugene]
Men 100m (24 Advance)
13 Eric HARRISON Ohio State 10.21 (3rd in Heat #3)
22 Akanni HISLOP LSU 10.27 (2nd in H#5)
36 Adell COLTRUST Jackson State 10.42 (5th in H#3)
Men's 200m
(24 advance)
9 Eric HARRISON Ohio State 20.62 (2nd in Heat #6)
Men's 400m
6 Dwight ST HILLAIRE Kentucky 45.46 (1st in Heat #4)
UPDATE: Texas A&M Team Invitational DAY 2
Tyra Gittens continues to steamroll her first HEP in two years with a leap of 6.67m—ONE cm off her all-time best—and takes 1062 points to move to a total of 4931 after 5 events
This pace is 124 pts ahead of her NR!
UPDATE:
Tyra Gittens has a best throw of 38.13m in the javelin and nabs 631pts and now sits on 5562 points, with a lead of 828 over Smith
This rate puts Gittens on a pace 151 points ahead of her current T&T National record in the HEP, set at the 2018 SEC Outdoor Championships
UPDATE:
Tyra Gittens comes to within HALF SECOND off her 800m PB and drops 2:28.52 to place second in the final event of the Texas A&M Team Invitational Women's Hepthathlon.
She gets 712 points and sets a 🚨NEW TTO NR🚨 of 6274!
PB | SR | NR and WORLD #2 for 2021!