Horizontal jumpers Machaeda Linton of Louisiana State College (LSU) and Nia Robinson of the College of Arkansas have certified for the lengthy and triple bounce occasions on the NCAA Indoor Championships.
The meet, which marks the tip of the collegiate indoor season, takes place on the Virginia Seashore Sports activities Heart in Virginia Seashore, Virginia, on Friday and Saturday.
Twenty-four Jamaicans, cut up evenly between women and men, are to signify their faculties and universities in particular person occasions.
Brianna Lyston of Louisiana State College (LSU) is the defending champion within the ladies’s 60m sprint however is just ranked sixth general. She is to be joined within the occasion by Atlantic Coast Convention (ACC) champion Shenese Walker of Florida State College.
Three time-ACC champion Oneka Wilson, of Clemson, is the joint high ranked athlete within the ladies’s 60m hurdles. She is tied with Myreanna Bebe, of the College of Tennessee, with each working 7.95 seconds. They’re to face Marissa Simpson, the Convention USA winner from College of Texas-El Paso (UTEP).
Linton and Robinson may have busy weekends as they’ll contest each horizontal jumps. Aaliyah Foster, of the College of Texas, may even be within the lengthy bounce occasion whereas ACC Champion Shantae Foreman, of Clemson, and Rhianna Phipps, of the College of Nebraska, will be part of them within the triple bounce.
Convention USA ladies’s 200m champion and file holder Niesha Burgher, of the College of Texas-El Paso (UTEP), is ranked quantity two within the ladies’s 200m after her 22.39 private greatest run this yr.
Dejanae Oakley, of the College of Georgia, whose 50.90 private greatest was set on the SEC Championships, and Mountain West Indoor championships file holder Shaquena Foote, of San Diego State, are the 2 Jamaicans within the ladies’s 400m.
Vashaun Vascianna, of the College of Arkansas; Jerome Campbell, of Northern Colorado; Jaheim Stern, of LSU; and Demario Prince, of Baylor College, are to contest the boys’s 60m hurdles.
Travis Williams, of the College of Southern California, will contest the boys’s 60m; Demar Francis, of Baylor, is down for the boys’s 200m; Shaemar Uter, of Texas Tech College, is within the males’s 400m; and Tyrice Taylor, of Arkansas, might be within the males’s 800m.
SEC Indoor runner-up Nikaoli Williams, of the College of Oklahoma, is the one Jamaican set for the boys’s lengthy bounce.
Luke Brown, of the College of Kentucky, and Apalos Edwards, of Arkansas, are to contest the boys’s triple bounce, whereas Ralford Mullings, of Oklahoma, certified within the males’s shot put.
