IT was called Super-Conference weekend and a number of Bahamians shined for the various collegiate track and field championships held around the United States.
Big 10 Conference
Rhema Otabor continues to excel in the women’s javelin.
The junior strongwoman took the title with a heave of 189-feet, 9-inches or 57.85 metres on her fourth attempt to lead a clean sweep of the top four positions for Nebraska.
Her nearest rival was another junior Maddie Harris with 184-9 (56.33m).
Meanwhile, Ohio State had a few Bahamians competing, led by Shaun Miller Jr in the men’s high jump. He had a leap of 7-1 1/2 (2.17m) for third place.
The event was won by Mayson Conner of Nebraska with 7-2 1/2 (2.20m).
Grand Bahamian Oscar Smith, a junior at Ohio State, had the seventh fastest qualifying time of 13.82. But in the final, he ended up ninth in 14.08. Darius Luff, a junior at Nebraska, won in 13.32.
Adrrian Curry, a senior at Ohio State, was 26th overall in the men’s 100m in 34.61. He didn’t advance to the final.
Big 12 Outdoors
Sprinter Terrance Jones, coming off an impressive national record-tying performance in the 100m earlier this year, had to settle for second fiddle in the pair of events at the Big 12 Outdoors in Bloomington, Indiana.
The native of Grand Bahama had the third fastest qualifying time of 10.35. He ended up second in the 100m to trail team-mate Courtney Lindsey as they both crossed the line in 10.08. Jones also had the seventh fastest qualifying time of 20.58 in the preliminaries of the men’s 200m. He finished second in the final in 20.32 behind Lindsey’s winning time of 20.12.
Antoine Andrews, also a member of Texas Tech, competed in the final of the men’s 110m hurdles where he ended up in second place in 13.46. His team-mate Caleb Dean won in 13.44.
Andrews had the second fastest qualifying time of 13.57.
SEC Championships
University of Tennessee’s Charisma Taylor, competing for Tennessee, popped a leap of 45-10 3/40inches or 13.99 metres for second place in the women’s triple umip to lead all Bahamian performers at the SEC Championships in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Jasmine Moore of Florida won the event with 46-04 3/4 (14.14m).
Taylor had to settle for fourth place in the final of the women’s 100m hurdles in 12.84. Aila Armstrong of LSU took the title in 12,.40 for a meet and faulty record.
Taylor had the fourth fastest qualifying time of 12.93.
Ahthaya Charlton, also competing for Kentucky, got sixth place in the women’s 190m final. Jacious Sears from Tennessee won the race in 10.96. Charltoin had the second fastest time in the preliminary rounds in 11.11.
Charlton also ran the second leg for Kentycky in the women;’s 4 x 100m relay as they finished second in 42,93 just behind Louisiana State University’;s winning performance in 42.92.
A pair of quarter-milers competed in the women’s 400m, but neither advanced out of the preliminary rounds. Javonya Valcourt, also competing for Tennessee, was 16th overall in 52.78, while Megan Moss, a member of the Kentucky connection, was 19th in 53.33.
Valcourt and Moss were a part of their respective women’s 4 x 400m relay teams that closed out the meet. Valcourt ran the second leg for Tennessee as they got the edge in third place in 3:29.98, while Moss ran the third leg for Kentucky as they got fourth in 3:30.93. Texas A&M took the title in 3:26.64.
AAC Outdoor Championships
In Raleigh, North Carolina, Wanya McCoy posted a lifetime best of 20.41 to take second place in the men’s 200m behind his teammate Cameron Rose who won in his personal best of 20.39. Rose and McCoy had the third and fourth fastest times in the preliminaries in 20.56 and 20.71 respectively.
McCoy opened the meet by just missing out on a spot in the final of the men’s 100m after he clocked 10.35 for ninth place in the preliminaries.
McCoy, however, closed out the meet by running the lead off leg for Clemson’s victorious 4 x 400m relay team of D;Andre Anderson, Rose and Tarees Rhoden, who took the title in a meet record of 3:02.25.
Big 10 Conference
In the men’s high jump, Shaun Miller Jr led a few Bahamians at Ohio State with a leap of 7-1 1/2 (2.17m) for third place. The event was won by Mayson Conner of Nebraska with 7-2 1/2 (2.20m).
Grand Bahamian Oscar Smith, a junior at Ohio State, had the seventh fastest qualifying time of 13.82. Smith finished ninth in the final in 14.08. Nebraska’s junior Darius Luff won in 13.32.
Adrrian Curry, a senior at Ohio State, was 26th overall in the men’s 100m in 34.61. He didn’t advance to the final.
Conference USA
Karon Dean, a junior at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) clocked the fifth fastest qualifying time of 10.27 on Saturday to advance to the final that was held on Sunday.
Competing at the Birmingham Crossplex in Birmingham, Alabama where Sydney Clarke stars on the women’s tennis team, Dean came through in the century final in 10.43 for sixth place. Alaba Akintola, a senior at Mid Tennessee State, won in 10.06.
Dean, however, fell short of getting into the final of the 200m after he placed ninth in the preliminaries in 21.20.
Also competing at the meet was Mateo Smith, a freshman at Louisiana Tech, who got seventh in the men’s long jump with a leap of 23-06 3/4 (7.18m).
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