Three Jamaicans together with the first-ever World Athletics Championships males’s 400m winner Bertland Cameron have been inducted to the NCAA Corridor of Fame Class of 2025 by the US Observe and Subject and Cross Nation Coaches Affiliation earlier this week.
They’re Cameron, who attended College of Texas-El Paso, Diane Guthrie, who attended George Mason College, and two time World Below-20 dash hurdles champion Gillian Russell-Love of the College of Miami.
They’ll be part of compatriots Merlene Ottey, of the College of Nebraska, who was inducted in 2022, and Trecia Kay Smith, of the College of Pittsburgh, who was inducted final 12 months.
American 400m runner Suziann Reid of the College of Texas, whose dad and mom are Jamaicans, may even be inducted this 12 months.
Cameron received 5 NCAA Division 1 (D1) 400m titles — three open air and two indoors, and was the third man to win the D1 out of doors 400m title 3 times and was simply 0.02 seconds away from being the primary man to win the occasion 4 occasions.
The previous St Jago stand out was a member of six of the Miners’ NCAA crew titles (three indoor, three out of doors) from 1980-1983 and ran some excellent occasions together with 44.58 seconds to win the 1981 NCAA Outside title, then a collegiate file and the quickest on this planet that 12 months.
He additionally ran 44.69 seconds in 1982 and 44.62 seconds in 1983, the three quickest “in-season collegiate performances in historical past,” the Affiliation’s web site stated.
Guthrie, who attended Hampton Excessive and St Elizabeth Technical Excessive Faculty, received 5 NCAA D1 titles — three in lengthy bounce and two within the heptathlon. She additionally nonetheless owns the Heptathlon nationwide file of 6,527 factors, set in 1995.
When Guthrie received her first NCAA heptathlon title in 1994, she created historical past by profitable a second particular person title and a 12 months later she achieved her private greatest, which can be the NCAA file immediately, within the occasion.
Guthrie’s lengthy bounce titles included a sweep of the indoor and out of doors variations as a freshman in 1991 and in 4 years by no means completed decrease than third within the NCAA Championships — indoors or open air, whereas additionally scoring 3 times within the excessive bounce.
Russell-Love, the previous Campion Faculty standout, additionally received 5 NCAA D1 titles — three open air within the 100m hurdles and two indoors within the 55m hurdles.
Her ultimate out of doors title, as a senior in 1995, made her the primary girl to win three D1 100m hurdle titles. Her first indoor title, as a freshman in 1992, made her the primary male or feminine NCAA champion for the Hurricanes in observe and discipline.
Russell received the 1994 NCAA D1 out of doors title by a margin of 0.40 seconds — the most important within the occasion’s historical past — and he or she was simply the second girl to make 4 consecutive finals within the D1 100m hurdles.
