Former Jamaican junior consultant Bovel McPherson of New Mexico Junior Faculty broke the Nationwide Junior Faculty (NJCAA) Indoor and Indoor Championships 400m document after he ran an indoor private greatest 45.58 seconds on the Texas Tech Sports activities Efficiency Centre in Lubbock on Saturday.
McPherson was one among 5 Jamaican winners on the two-day championships that ended on Saturday. Shamar Reid of South Plains Faculty; Celine Riddle and Asharria Ulett of Barton County Faculty; and Shevon Depass of Western Texas Faculty had been additionally winners.
McPherson, who received the bronze medal within the males’s 400m on the Pan-Am Juniors held in Costa Rica in 2019, lowered the meet document 45.59 seconds set in 2017 by compatriot Sean Bailey of Western Texas and the NJCAA document 45.84 seconds set in 2011 by Rondell Bartholomew of South Plains Junior Faculty.
Former Holmwood Technical athlete McPherson, who additionally ran a private greatest 20.70 seconds to guide the qualifiers within the 200m, broke his 400m private greatest 45.93 that he had set in February.
Reid threw 17.82m to win the boys’s shot put after inserting eighth final 12 months. Ricardo Hayles of Barton County threw a private greatest 17.29m for fifth, with Yekini Bowen of Iowa Western inserting sixth with 17.14m.
Bowen was additionally fifth within the males’s weight throw with 17.34m.
Riddle of Barton County received the ladies’s lengthy leap with a private greatest 6.21m, whereas Kavel Ritchie of New Mexico JC was seventh with 5.72m.
Riddle was additionally second within the triple leap with one other lifetime greatest mark of 12.60m.
Ulett, additionally of Barton County, set a brand new private greatest 8.29 seconds to win the ladies’s 60m hurdles after main the preliminaries with 8.36.
Jody Ann Mitchell of New Mexico Junior Faculty was second within the 600m, operating 1:32.55 minutes. Her teammate Ysanne Peart was sixth with a private greatest 1:35.63, with Serene Douglas of Essex Neighborhood Faculty was seventh, additionally with a private greatest 1:36.03.
Each Mitchell and Peart had been a part of the profitable distance medley relay workforce that ran 11:47.42 minutes.
Shone Walters of Barton County positioned second within the girls’s 800m with 2:13.68.
Nichalas Energy of Indian Hills Neighborhood Faculty was additionally second within the males’s 800m, clocking 1:50.66, whereas Ainsley Campbell of Butler Neighborhood Faculty was sixth in a private greatest 1:51.67.
Kaydeen Johnson of Odessa was second within the girls’s 1,000m, operating 2:56.55.
Cedricka Williams of Barton County threw a private greatest 17.68m to put third within the girls’s weight throw.
— Paul A Reid
