Jamaica’s Roshawn Clarke (left) receives the baton from teammate
Rusheen McDonald within the males’s 4x400m relay last through the
World Championships on the Nationwide Athletics Centre in Budapest,
Hungary, on August 27, 2023. (Naphtali Junior)
KINGSTON, Jamaica -Rusheen McDonald, bronze medalist on the 2024 World Athletics World Indoor Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, has been included in Jamaica’s 22-member squad to take part in subsequent weekend’s staging of the championships in Nanjing, China.
The squad is made up of seven girls and 15 males.
McDonald, who can also be the nationwide out of doors 400m file holder, was one in every of three Jamaican bronze medalists on the 2024 version, together with sprinter Ackeem Blake and lengthy jumper Carey McLeod.
5 US-based faculty athletes have additionally been included within the crew, the primary time in years that faculty athletes have been included in a crew to characterize the nation through the faculty semester.
Joanne Reid of the College of Arkansas, Jerome Campbell of the College of Northern Colorado, Demario Prince and Demar Francis of Baylor College and Kimar Farquharson of Texas A&M College have been named to the crew by the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Affiliation (JAAA).
See beneath the complete crew:
Girls – Jodean Williams, Natasha Morrison, Ackera Nugent, Amoi Brown, Leah Anderson, Joanne Reid, Lloydricia Cameron.
Males – Rohan Watson, Nishion Ebanks, Jerome Campbell, Demario Prince, Rusheen McDonald, Jasauna Dennis, Demar Francis, Tarees Rhoden, Kimar Farquharson, Romaine Beckford, Raymond Richards, Tajay Gayle, Wayne Pinnock, Jordan Scott and Rajindra Campbell.
Officers- Trevor Campbell, supervisor; Craig Richards, assistant supervisor; Maurice Wilson- technical chief; Paul Francis, coach; Kerrylee Ricketts, coach; Dr Warren Blake, crew physician; Damion Rowe, Oral Thompson and Troy Evans, therapeutic massage therapists.
-Paul A Reid
