File Photograph: Brianna Lyston of LSU competing on the Razorback Invitational on the Randal Tyson indoor complicated in Fayetteville, Arkansas. (Photograph: LSU Athletics Instagram)
KINGSTON, Jamaica—5 Jamaicans, together with ladies’s 60m defending champion Brianna Lyston of Louisiana State College (LSU), superior to their respective particular person last after Friday’s opening session of the NCAA Indoor Championships on the Virginia Seaside Sports activities Heart in Virginia Seaside, Virginia.
Lyston, who was second within the South-Japanese Convention (SEC) last two weeks in the past, was second in her semi-final warmth in 7.17 seconds- fifth greatest overall- will probably be joined by Atlantic Coast Convention (ACC) champion Shenese Walker of Florida State (FSU), who ran a private greatest 7.18 seconds.
Walker’s time bettered her earlier greatest 7.19 seconds – fourth greatest all time at FSU.
ACC champion Oneka Wilson of Clemson College, was third quickest within the ladies’s 60m hurdles semi-final, working 7.99 seconds, however Marissa Simpson of the College of Texas-El Paso (UTEP), missed out after ending 14th general.
Niesha Burgher, additionally of UTEP, superior to the ultimate of the ladies’s 200m after she ran 22.91 seconds – sixth greatest on the day. Dejanae Oakley, additionally made progress to the ladies’s 400m last, after successful her semi-final race in 51.85 seconds.
Shaquena Foote of San Diego State, the Mountain West Convention champion, ran 52.58 seconds, 14th greatest, however didn’t advance. In the meantime, Nia Robinson of the College of Arkansas was seventh within the ladies’s lengthy soar with 6.45m after she was fourth final 12 months; Aaliyah Foster of the College of Texas positioned ninth with a better of 6.37m, whereas Machaeda Linton of LSU was 14th with 6.07m.
Robinson and Linton will return for the triple soar on Saturday.
-Paul Reid
