T&T’s Jereem Richards impressed at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix winning the Jesse Loubier Memorial 300 metres on Saturday at the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex in New York.

The event, which usually held at the Reggie Lewis Centre in Boston, was relocated to the Staten Island venue in New York because the Boston venue is serving as a mass coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination site.

The relocation did not seem to affect the 2018 Commonwealth 200m men’s champion, running in lane five, he crossed first with a time of 32.71 seconds ahead of Jamaican Christopher Taylor, competing in lane six, who ran a national record of 32.80 to place second while in third place was American Kahmari Montgomery in lane four with 32.96. The other runner Taylor McLaughlin in lane three was disqualified.

Another T&T athlete Deon Lendore excelled at the meet in the men’s 200m,Êrunning in lane six, placed second with a Ê20.92-clocking. He followed Noah Lyles of the United States, who was lane five, to line with a winning time of 20.80. Third was an American Jaron Flournoy with a time of 21.26 in lane four.

T&T athletes also had great success on the US collegiate circuit with junior Tyra Gittens of Texas A&M and University of Alabama senior Cherisse Murray picking gold at the Tyson Invitational at Randall Tyson Track in Fayetteville, Arkansas on the weekend.

Gittens took the top spot in the women’s high jump first with a 1.88m-leap. This followed up her bronze-medal performance in the women’s long jump the day before. Her best effort came on her fourth attempt which measured 6.43m.

Across the field, Murray continued her domination in the women’s shot put reaching the top of the podium with her fifth throw of 16.29m.

At the Tiger Paw Invite at the Indoor Track in Clemson, South Carolina, University of Kentucky (UK) senior Dwight St Hillaire just missed out on a medal in the men’s 400m. He won section two with a 45.64-timing but was fourth overall.

St Hillaire also raced in the 60m and placed second in heat two of the preliminaries to advance with the fourth-fastest time but he opted out of the final.

He did not go home empty-handed though as his UK unit won section one in the men’s 4x400m relay with 3:05.46, with the T&T athlete running the anchor leg, to emerge the overall champion of the 11 teams that competed.

Freshman Jabari Fox in his debut for Northern Iowa placed second in the men’s 200m at the Iowa State Classic at the Leid Recreation Centre in Ames, Iowa. He clocked 22.02.

Sophomore Onal Mitchell also featured for Northern Iowa and in his season-opener, he placed seventh in the men’s 400m timed final with 49.28.

Later, Mitchell was part of Northern Iowa’s A team that faced off against Northern Iowa B team which included Fox in the men’s 4x400m relay. Mitchell, running the anchor leg, led his unit to second place with 3:15.73 while Fox, who ran the first leg, saw his squad placed fourth with 3:22.89.

On Friday, gtaduate student Alisha St Louis of Eastern Michigan University placed third with 11.55m in the women’s triple jump at the Grand Valley State University (GVSU) held at the Laker Turf Building in Allendale, Michigan.

At the H-Town Speed City Series – Meet 3 at the Houston-Yeoman fieldhouse in Houston, Texas, Kadesha Prescott, a junior at the University of South Florida, crossed the line third in heat three in 7.78 and placed 12th overall.

ÊOn the Junior College (JUCO) scene, Judah Taylor debuted with a gold in the men’s 400m at the Washburn JUCO Challenge, Washburn Indoor Athletic Facility in Topeka, Kansas.

The Butler Community College quartermiler ran a time of 49.40 to win the one-lap event and later picked up another gold in the 4x400m relay event. Running the third leg, Taylor and his Butler teammates raced to victory in 3:20.20.

Jerod Elcock (red shirt/unattached) in his season-opener placed third in the men’s 60m and fourth in 200m timed final at the Washburn Challenge. He clocked 6.79 in the 60m dash then in the half-lap, crossed in 21.85 to finish third in section six to be fourth overall.