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Jamaica’s Lyston moves up in NCAA rankings

BOSTON, USA— Romaine Beckford of the University of Arkansas,  retained the men’s National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) indoor high jump title, after clearing a personal best and college leading 2.27m at the TRACK at New Balance in Boston, Massachusetts on Saturday. Beckford, who made one attempt at the Olympic qualifying mark of 2.33m, had won the event last year while competing for the University of South Florida. He was the first Arkansas winner of...

Marshall, Beckford win at NCAA indoor championships

‘I want to go higher’ — Distin

KINGSTON, Jamaica— Lamara Distin rewrote her own Jamaican women’s high jump record after she cleared 2.00m to win a third straight South Eastern Conference (SEC) indoors at the Tyson Sports Complex in Fayetteville, Arkansas on Saturday. The Texas A&M University senior, broke her own personal best and school record of 1.97m and set a meet record, collegiate record and equalled the facility record. She held the previous meet record of...

Lyston named NCAA athlete of the week

Jamaicans Roschell Clayton of the University of Villanova and Ockera Myrie of Clemson University were in record-breaking mode over the weekend as the US Collegiate indoor track and field schedule restarted. Clayton equalled Villanova’s women’s indoor high jump program record when she cleared a personal best of 1.84m at the Penn Select 10 meet held in Staten Island, New York. Clayton, formerly of Montego Bay High and Mt Alvernia High...