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Jamaican Carey McLeod.
Jamaican Carey McLeod secured a medal in his NCAA Division 1 Indoor Championships debut on the second day of competition inside the Randal Tyson Track Center in Arkansas, the USA on Friday.
The 22-year-old McLeod placed third in the men s long jump.
Formerly of Kingston College (KC), and now a junior at the University of Tennessee, McLeod logged a personal-best leap of 8.26 meters to score six points for the Vols at the national meet. The mark improved his school record from two weeks ago at the SEC Championships by one centimetre and currently ranks McLeod as the No. 5 long jumper in the world during the 2020-21 indoor campaign.
Cole Hocker competes in the mile at the 2021 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships. Andy Hancock/NCAA Photos
The last day of the meet started with a dominant win from Oregon sophomore Cole Hocker and continued with a historic double victory in Saturday’s distance events. Related Story
After breaking the previous collegiate record with his teammate Cooper Teare in February, Hocker didn’t leave anything on the table in his quest to win the NCAA mile crown.
By the bell lap, the race was Hocker’s as he broke away from the field with every step in the final 200 meters, reaching the homestretch clear of any competition.
Christopher Taylor.
Former Calabar High School sprint star, Christopher Taylor clocked a national record 32.80 seconds in the 300m but the time was only good enough for second place at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in New York on Saturday.
Taylor, who is based in the USA, recorded splits of 11.45 after 100m and 21.53 at the 200m mark.
Trinidad and Tobago s 2017 4x400m relay gold medallist Jereem Richards won the race 32.71 seconds.
Jamaican Brittany Anderson ran 7.99 and her countrywoman Jeanine Williams clocked 8.27 for fourth and seventh in the women’s 60m hurdles.
USA s Kendra Harrison, the World indoor 60m hurdles champion and the outdoor world record-holder, was a clear winner of the race in a world-leading 7.82. Britain’s Tiffany Porter and USA’s Gabrielle Cunningham placed second and third respectively, both clocking 7.89.
Celebrating A Century of NCAA Track & Field Championships
LSU’s Hobbs Couldn’t Be Caught In 2018
June 9, 2018
LSU’s women have a decorated history 100 meters at a time.
From 1982 to 2017, the Tigers won 21 national titles at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships between the 100 (seven) and the 4×100 relay (14).
It had been a long time, though, since LSU saw someone as fierce as Aleia Hobbs in 2018.
Hobbs actually burst on the scene as a junior the year before when she clocked the second fastest time in collegiate history at 10.85. That came at the SEC Relays, where Hobbs came within shouting distance of collegiate record holder Dawn Sowell, another Tiger legend.