Brianna Lyston of Louisiana State College competing on the Battle on the Bayou at LSU on Saturday, March 30, 2024. (Picture: LSU Athletics Instagram)
KINGSTON, Jamaica- Brianna Lyston of Louisiana State College (LSU) stayed on the right track to defend her ladies’s 60m title on the South East Convention Indoor Championships being hosted by Texas A&M College after she certified for the ultimate, working 7.17 seconds within the preliminaries on Friday.
Lyston who additionally gained the NCAA title final yr, had the identical time because the College of Tennessee’s Layla Anderson who was working her life time greatest whereas Carleta Bernard of the College of Texas additionally certified for Saturday’s closing after working 7.32 seconds to win her warmth.
Vashaun Vascianna of the College of Arkansas ran a large private greatest 7.52 seconds to guide the qualifiers for the lads’s 60m hurdles closing, beating his earlier greatest of seven.63 seconds set earlier in February. It’s the fifth quickest time ever by a Jamaican, third greatest within the NCAA up to now this season and a facility report beating the 7.57 seconds set earlier this yr by one other Jamaican, Demario Prince of Baylor.
Jaheim Stern of LSU additionally superior, working a lifetime greatest 7.62 seconds
Dejanae Oakley of the College of Georgia additionally certified for the ladies’s 400m with 52.20 seconds.
NCAA defending champion Rivaldo Marshall of the College of Arkansas is thru to Saturday’s closing of the lads’s 800m after he ran 1:48.95 seconds within the preliminaries, second greatest general. He was joined by Kemar Farquharson of Texas A&M who gained his warmth in 1:49.82 seconds however Tyrice Taylor of Arkansas who ran 1:49.73 seconds, for second in his warmth, didn’t advance.
On the Massive 12 Indoors Championships at Texas Tech in Lubbock, Texas, Baylor’s Demar Francis certified first within the males’s 200m, working 20.47 seconds in Friday’s preliminaries.
On the Mountain West Indoors being held on the Albuquerque Conference Heart, Albuquerque New Mexico, Shaquena Foote of San Diego State, led the qualifying in each the ladies’s 200m and the 400m. She ran 23.28 seconds for the 200m by which she was third final yr and clocked 52.73 seconds within the 400m the place she is the defending champion.
In the meantime, Adrienne Adams of Auburn College was third within the ladies’s weight throw on the SEC Championships, throwing an enormous private greatest 21.41 seconds, nicely previous her earlier better of 20.00m.
On the Massive 10 meet being hosted by the College of Indiana, Juliet Smith of St John’s College was third within the ladies’s weight throw with 16.95m.
Safin Wills of the College of Oregon, positioned fourth within the males’s lengthy soar with 7.61m whereas Kavian Kerr of the College of Nebraska was seventh with 7.49m.
Fabrienne Foster of the College of North Texas, threw a private greatest 19.09m for second within the ladies’s weight throw on the American Athletics Convention Indoor Championships held in Birmingham, Alabama, beating her earlier better of 18.76m set two weeks in the past. Corey Ottey of the College of South Florida was third within the males’s excessive soar with 2.02m.
-Paul A Reid
