Bahamians continue to perform well in NCAA athletics Sasha Wells.
Bahamian collegiate athletes at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I (DI) and Division II (DII) levels continue to put on impressive performances as the indoor track and field season winds down.
Sasha Wells continued her impressive NCAA DI indoor run for the Oral Roberts University Golden Eagles when she won three individual events at the Washburn Challenge hosted by Washburn University at the Washburn Indoor Athletic Facility in Topeka, Kansas, on Friday. Fellow Bahamian and Golden Eagles athlete Bradley Dormeus won two individual events and was a part of the winning relay that day. Both Bahamians were able to break facility records.
As a junior in 2019, Rivers
broke a Penn State record by running the indoor mile in 4:29.27. She’s also a three-time Mid-Atlantic Women’s Track Athlete of the Year, a 10-time Big Ten Champion, and Penn State’s female Student-Athlete of the Year for the 2019-20 seasons.
After she elected to use her extra year of eligibility and return to Happy Valley for the 2020-21 campaign, Rivers decided there was one more challenge she wanted to tackle at Penn State: dance in THON.
“It was like three weeks ago when I decided I was gonna dance,” Rivers said. “It was always something I was interested in even as a freshman, but Big Tens always linked up right after THON, so we were always adamant about staying healthy and not being around crowds. I never really had the opportunity to go inside until last year.”
Three Killeen ISD high schools celebrated with 18 excited, talented, hardworking seniors and their proud family members as the student athletes prepare to continue their education and their sports at
Camryn Newton-Smith & Jermie Walker earn Sun Belt weekly honors By Caleb Garner - Arkansas State Athletics | January 28, 2021 at 2:00 PM CST - Updated January 28 at 2:00 PM
After a strong start to the 2020-21 indoor track and field season, Arkansas Stateâs Jermie Walker and Camryn Newton-Smith garnered Sun Belt Conference Indoor Track and Field Athlete of the Week honors on Thursday.
Newton-Smith was named Womenâs Field Athlete of the Week, while Walker was tabbed Menâs Track Athlete of the Week in the leagueâs first weekly honors of the season.
The All-American pentathlete Newton-Smith earned her second career weekly honor after posting a strong first pentathlon of the year, totaling 4,068 points to win at the Samford Multis on Jan. 21. That mark currently ranks second in the NCAA and was three shy of matching her school-record mark of 4,071 set at the 2020 Sun Belt Indoor Championships. She claimed three of the five events at Samford, including the 60m h