Jamaica’s Kay-Lagay Clarke of Barton Community College and Calleisha Chance of Iowa Western Community College were double winners at their respective National Junior College Athletics Association (NJCAA) Regional indoor championships last weekend. Former St Jago High standout Clarke won the women’s triple jump and 60m hurdles at the Region VI Indoor championships held at the Robert W plaster Center in Pittsburg, Kansas while Chance, the former Vere Technical athlete, won.
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Track & Field Adds Three to 2021 Recruiting Class
CLEMSON, S.C. The Clemson track and field program has added three student-athletes to its 2021 recruiting class, Director of Track & Field and Cross Country Mark Elliott announced on Thursday. The Tigers’ 2021 recruiting class now consists of seven members, as the program announced the signing of four student-athletes back on Dec. 14, 2020. Two members of the signing class, Antoinette van der Merwe and Areya Campbell, are already a part of the program after joining the team in January.
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Marie Forbes is set to arrive in Clemson after establishing herself as one of the top JUCO throwers over the past two seasons… has collected 13 victories across her two years of competition with Cloud Community College… during the 2021 NJCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships, Forbes finished second in the shot put (14.43m), second in the discus (51.47m), and fifth in the hammer throw (49.66m)
Blue Valley High School’s graduating class of 2021. From left to right: Jeremiah Duncan, Madison O’Shea, Shianne Shelton and Grace Johnson. (Brandon Peoples/KMAN)
Blue Valley High School’s class of 2021 looks more like a close-knit family than school classmates.
With just four students in this year’s graduating class, Jeremiah Duncan, Grace Johnson, Madison O’Shea and Shianne Shelton represent the high school’s smallest graduating class in its history. The four of them have been together since kindergarten, which at the time consisted of 11 students.
“For whatever reason over the years we never could fill their grade level with more students,” said Marion Mazouch, Blue Valley High School principal.