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SPOTLIGHT ON...
Ja's Nicholas Gordon:
NCAA Indoor LJ Champ     
Photos by Jeremy Foote/Nebraska Media Relations 















Having had to face fierce rivalry year after year at the high school championships in his country, the 21-year-old two-time All-American at the University of Nebraska is well conditioned to stay calm under competitive pressure. He is also poised to continue his dominance in the 2010 NCAAs, as he aims to surpass the 27-foot mark this season. 
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Gibson Relays: Bolt Anchors Record Run; US Teams Beat Local High Schools
The Jamaica-based, Glen Mills-coached Racers Lions Track Club recorded a 2010 world leading sprint relay time in Kingston yesterday, February 27. Competing at the 34th staging of the annual Gibson Relays, the team of Kenroy Anderson, Yohan Blake, Marvin Anderson and Usain Bolt, running in that order, clocked 38.08 secs. ahead of another team from the Racers stable. (Read more) 
 
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2010 US BIG 12 INDOOR WRAP-UP
(Feb. 28, 2010): The Caribbean was well represented at the Big 12 Indoor Championships at the Lied Recreation Athletic Facility, Iowa State University over the weekend. Texas A&M’s Tabarie Henry (US Virgin Islands) by won the 400m in 46.28 secs, ahead of his teammate and Bahamian native Demetrius Pinder (46.49). Henry and Pinder later teamed up with Bryan Miller and Tran Howell to win the 4x4 relays for Texas A&M in 3.04.99 secs.  Read more.  
 Caribbean Athletes Help Bring The Millrose Thrill
 (Jan. 30, 2010): A mere .10 secs separated the winner, Boys & Girls High School of Brooklyn, from third place Medgar Evers Prep, also of Brooklyn, in the PSAL Boys 4x400m. And in the PSAL Girls 4x400m relay, Ahtyana Johnson, the Benjamin Cardozo High School senior (in photo at left), ran down Medgar Evers' Shakele Seaton (in photo at right) and caught her at the finish line. Both teams as well as several others have runners with Caribbean roots. (Read more)

Ras Mykkal photo Bermuda's Aaron Evans Inspired By Bolt
(Jan. 27, 2010): Twenty-year-old Aaron Evans has had a very active youth, playing soccer, cricket and basketball. The Devonshire, Bermuda native played basketball at camps run by his father and played on the Bermudian National Under-13 soccer squad that toured Europe, playing in Holland, Germany and Belgium. O’Neil Reid caught up with the 800m specialist who wants to be a lawyer.  Read more.

NY's Cardozo Kicks Early But Keeps Focus on Rebuilding
(Jan. 18, 2010): Benjamin Cardozo High School in Queens, New York, boasts a cadre of gritty female athletes, including some with Caribbean roots. With their string of successes, the young ladies aren’t afraid to take their talent and fierce rivalry to the track. Last season, the team ended competition on a high note; this year, indications at the start of the Indoor season are things will be no different, even though two members of the Reebok record-breaking 4x4 team are no longer with the squad and the focus is on rebuilding. Read more
Dwight Mullings: Exciting Season Ahead  
(Jan. 10, 2010): It is often said that when opportunity knocks, one should be ready to open the door. Dwight Mullings, the 23-year-old Jamaican quarter-miler, knows what it feels like not to be ready to let opportunity in. He believes his own negligence cost him the opportunity to book a spot on the Jamaican team to the 2009 Berlin World Championships. The prospect of his going seemed sure; after all, he would have gone into the Trials with the fastest time. Read more  
                                 
UPDATE: Preview of NCAA (M&W) Indoor Championships
(Jan. 18, 2010): The Caribbean should be well represented at the 2010 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships to be held March 12-13 in Fayetteville, Arkansas, at the Randal Tyson Track Center on the University of Arkansas campus. Caribbean athletes have historically performed very well at the NCAAs and the trend should continue.  See an updated preview of how some of the Caribbean's best are expected to perform:   Read on…

Grenada's WY Champ Kirani James Enrolls at University of Alabama
(Jan. 7, 2010): Kirani James is now a Crimson Tide. The 17-year-old Grenadian and reigning World Youth 200m (21.05 secs) and 400m (45.24 secs) champion, has enrolled into the University of Alabama and will be competing in this Indoor track season.  Read more
Our 2009 Awards To Caribbean Athletes
(Jan. 5, 2010): The 2009 Track and Field season can be considered one for the ages. From the extraordinary and incomparable performances by Usain Bolt and his Jamaican teammates to Barbados’s Ryan Braithwaite upset to the consistency and gutsy performances of veteran Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie (Bahamas) and Josanne Lucas Trinidad & Tobago (T&T), 2009 was a phenomenal year for Caribbean athletics. It is, therefore, most fitting that we use this opportunity to distribute the following awards to the region’s athletes. (Read on)
 Smart and Kerron Stewart. Courtesy of Michael Smart. Coaches Corner:  A SMART CARIBBEAN PIPELINE 
(Dec. 20, 2009): American coach Michael Smart, the East Orange, New Jersey native and Essex County College (Essex) graduate has been coaching track and field at his alma mater for more than 24 years. In addition to his coaching duties at Essex, Smart has coached teams from the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago (T&T), St. Vincent & The Grenadines as well as the USA’s 2001 under-25 National Team. He is certified by both the USAT&F (Level 1) and the IAAF. More than 27 of his current and former athletes have represented countries such as Jamaica, Barbados, Grenada, Bahamas and T&T. (Read more)
 

Says Kerron Clement: I Want That Olympic 400m Hurdles Gold
(Dec. 17, 2009): Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Kerron Clement, running in US colors, shot to the top of the track and field world in 2007. He is the two-time World Championships 400m hurdles and 4x4 relay gold medalist (2007 & 2009), and the 2008 Beijing Olympics silver and gold medalist in the one-lap hurdles and 4x4 relay, respectively. Now, Clement says he wants that Olympic 400m hurdles gold and he’ll be ready for it in London in 2012.     Read more…
 Trinidad's Gavyn Nero Strides Into Baylor University            
Another Rising Star Is Poised to Step up His Speed
(Nov. 7, 2009): After a fabulous four years at the top of junior middle-distance running in the Caribbean, Gavyn Jerome Nero, perhaps Trinidad and Tobago’s most decorated athletes in the history of the CARIFTA Games, goes to Baylor University in the US, where he’s ready to take his performance to another level.
This 19-year-old, whose family is no stranger to sports, not only has leg speed; he has brain power and the personality to take him places. Read more... 
Sprinters Are Different From Other People, Says The Economist
IS ATHLETIC prowess attained or innate? Those who have suffered the tongue-lashing of a tyrannical games master at school might be forgiven for doubting the idea that anyone and everyone is capable of great sporting achievement, if only they would put enough effort into it. Practice may make perfect, but not all are built in ways that make it worth bothering in the first place. Read more...  

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