media_artricles :: 2013

Spann Golden

T&T athlete wins 400 hurdles at NJCAA Champs

Trinidad and Tobago’s Kernesha Spann grabbed gold at the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Outdoor Track and Field Championships, in Kansas, USA, yesterday.

The Western Texas College student returned a time of one minute, 00.09 seconds to emerge victorious in the women’s 400 metres hurdles.

On Friday, Elton Walcott produced a wind-assisted 16.00 metres effort to earn silver in the men’s triple jump. The best legal jump for the South Plains College student was 15.85m.

Another T&T/South Plains athlete, Shun-Shauna Mason, finished fourth in heat one and 13th overall in the women’s 100m preliminaries in a wind-aided 11.86 seconds. The top eight advanced to the final.

Mason, however, was golden in the women’s 4x100m relay, helping South Plains to the top spot in 44.99 seconds. She was also in the quartet that topped the preliminaries in 44.76.

Abiane Collymore was 14th overall in the qualifying round of the women’s 1,500m event in 5:13.09, the Butler Community College student missing out on a berth in the 12-woman final.

Collymore was a non-finisher in the 5,000m event.

Iowa Central Community College athlete, Dan-Neil Telesford finished 15th overall in the men’s 200m in a windy 21.40 seconds.

Telesford and his Iowa Central teammates finished fourth in the men’s 4x400m relay in 3:11.72.

Telesford was also part of the Iowa Central team that finished sixth in the men’s 4x100m final in 41.63 seconds—78-hundredths of a second slower than the 40.85 clocking they had produced in the qualifying round.

Jessica James earned gold in the women’s 4x400m relay, as part of the Iowa Central team. James and her teammates combined for a 3:39.94 clocking. And Collymore helped Butler County to sixth spot in 3:53.75. In the preliminaries, Collymore and company got home in 3:53.41.

Iowa Central won the women’s team title with 143 points, beating South Plains (133) and Central Arizona College (76) into second and third, respectively. Butler County (47) finished fifth, and Western Texas (22), 13th.

South Plains earned 140 points to capture the men’s team title, from Iowa Central (103) and Western Texas College (52).

At the International Grand Prix meet, in Uberlandia, Brazil, on Thursday, T&T sprinter Rondel Sorrillo finished fourth in the men’s 100m dash in 10.35 seconds.

The race was won by Brazil’s Bruno de Barros in 10.22. Antoine Adams, of St Kitts and Nevis, was second in 10.30, while third spot was copped by Canada’s Jared Connaughton (10.32).

T&T’s Emmanuel Callender and Marc Burns finished fifth and seventh, respectively, clocking 10.49 and 10.54.

In the 200m, Callender was seventh in 21.43 seconds.

At Friday’s USA Track & Field (USATF) High Performance Distance Classic, in California, USA, T&T’s Jamaal James clocked 1:48.32, for sixth spot in the men’s 800m “B” race. And in the women’s 1500m “C” race, Pilar McShine was sixth in 4:19.91.

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