Jamaicans Shaquena Foote of San Diego State and Neisha Burgher of College of Texas-El Paso (UTEP) had been double winners at their respective NCAA Division 1 Convention Indoor Championships that ended on Saturday.
Foote, the previous Petersfield Excessive star, received the ladies’s 200m/400m double at Mountain West Championships in Albuquerque, New Mexico, setting private bests in each occasions.
Burgher, previously of Excelsior Excessive, took the ladies’s 60m/200m double on the Convention USA Indoor Championships at Liberty College in Virginia.
Foote, who was named the Most Excellent Monitor Athlete of the Meet, broke her private finest and faculty report 52.42 seconds to retain her 400m title in 51.48. That effort additionally broke the championships report 51.73. She then clocked 22.89 within the 200m, lower than an hour later to maneuver into second place on the San Diego State rating.
Foote advised the Jamaica Observer that profitable the double has lit a spark.
“I’m overwhelmed with gratitude after profitable the double. Going into the championship, my focus was on executing my races to the very best of my skills. I knew that if I may do this, profitable the double was a chance.
“I’m positively happy with my occasions, however I’m nonetheless so hungry for extra. I’ve labored actually arduous in follow, and my arduous work is lastly paying off. I did the work and trusted God with the remainder. My efficiency right this moment is unquestionably a confidence booster for me, so I’m trying ahead to reducing my occasions come indoor nationals,” she mentioned.
Burgher ran a meet report 22.73 to take the ladies’s 200m title, breaking the 22.91 set in 2013 by Aurueyall Scott of the College of Central Florida and the ability report 22.96 set in 2025 by Dana Wilson. Marissa Simpson, additionally of UTEP, positioned fifth in 24.16.
Burgher received the ladies’s 60m title in 7.31, whereas Simpson was seventh in 7.66 and Denae McFarlane, additionally of UTEP, was eighth.
Additionally on Saturday, Dejanae Oakley of the College of Georgia ran a large private finest 50.90 to position fourth within the ladies’s 400m on the South East Convention Championships, the third quickest ever by a Jamaican lady.
Oakley’s beautiful 50.90 throughout the SEC Indoors at Texas A&M College is nicely below her earlier better of 51.75 seconds.
Solely nationwide report holder Stephenie Ann McPherson’s 50.79 set in 2022 and Nickisha Pryce’s 50.83 set final 12 months are quicker than Oakley’s time.
Brianna Lyston of Louisiana State College (LSU) didn’t defend her SEC 60m title as she was overwhelmed into second place within the ultimate.
Lyston equalled her season’s finest 7.13 to position second, whereas Carleta Bernard of Texas ran a private finest 7.25 seconds for fifth.
Luke Brown of the College of Kentucky set a brand new private finest and faculty report 16.87m as he was second within the males’s triple leap. Apalos Edwards of the College of Arkansas was fourth in a season’s finest 16.61m.
Nia Robinson, additionally of Arkansas, was fifth within the ladies’s triple leap, equalling her private finest 13.41m.
Jaheim Stern of LSU was third within the males’s 60m hurdles in a brand new finest of seven.57, whereas Vashaun Vascianna of Arkansas, who led after the preliminaries, was eighth.
Reigning NCAA champion Rivaldo Marshall of Arkansas was third within the males’s 800m in 1:48.31 minutes, and Kimar Farquharson of Texas A&M was seventh in 1:50.24.
Olympian Ralford Mullings of College of Oklahoma was third within the males’s shot put with 19.71m, whereas Trevor Gunzell of College of Alabama was sixth with 18.88m.
