T&T's Jereem Richards placed third in the men's 200 me­tres at the Pure Ath­let­ics Spring In­vi­ta­tion­al at the Na­tion­al Train­ing Cen­tre in Cler­mont, Flori­da in the Unit­ed States on Sun­day.

The 2018 Com­mon­wealth 200m cham­pi­on of the host club, Pure Ath­let­ics, clocked 20.37 sec­onds wind-as­sist­ed (2.1), to win sec­tion two of the timed fi­nals to fin­ish be­hind even­tu­al win­ner Erriy­on Knighton of Adi­das, who topped sec­tion three in 20.31 (1.6) and sec­tion one win­ner Pure Ath­let­ics' Jose­phus Lyles, who had the same time as Richards 20.37 but with less wind as­sis­tance (1.6).

Richards' Pure and Ath­let­ics club­mate, Machel Ce­de­nio, raced in sec­tion two and was a far-off sec­ond in 20.84 (1.7) be­hind Knighton, to place sixth over­all while an­oth­er lo­cal sprint­er Kyle Greaux fin­ished eighth, cross­ing fourth in sec­tion one with a 20.90-clock­ing.

Richards warmed up for the half-lap event rac­ing in the 100m dash ear­li­er. He placed sec­ond in heat two in the pre­lim­i­nary rounds in 10.27 (2.9) to ad­vance with the third fastest time but did not com­pete in the timed fi­nals.

In the women's ver­sion of the 100m dash, two T&T ath­letes com­pet­ed in­clud­ing Kai Selvon of Puma MVP In­ter­na­tion­al and Khal­i­fa St Fort of Pure Ath­let­ics.

Both lo­cal sprint­ers reached the timed fi­nals but on­ly St Fort faced the starter and placed sev­enth over­all in 11.76 (1.1), cross­ing sec­ond in sec­tion two. This af­ter pro­gress­ing with the 11th fastest time of 11.90 from the pre­lim­i­nary heats. Selvon's time of 11.77 (-0.2) saw her move on with the eighth quick­est time but she did com­pete in the fi­nals.

Hur­dler Badal tops 100m hur­dles in Col­orado

Tamia Badal ran a sea­son's best to win the women's 100m hur­dles event at the Doug Max In­vi­ta­tion­al held at the Col­orado State Uni­ver­si­ty Jack Chris­tiansen Track in Fort Collins, Col­orado on Sat­ur­day.

Uni­ver­si­ty of Col­orado fresh­man claimed the top spot with a 14.01-clock­ing (1.0).

At the Rid­er 5-way Track and Field meet in Lawrenceville, New Jer­sey, Ako His­lop of Fair­leigh Dick­in­son placed sev­enth in the 400m. The sopho­more clocked 54.56.

Pur­due fresh­man Nao­mi Camp­bell com­pet­ed in three events at the B1G North Flori­da In­vi­ta­tion­al in Iowa City on the week­end but did not get the suc­cess she had hoped for.

She placed 18th in both the women's 100m with 11.94 (3.7) and 200m with 24.81 (0.4) and just missed out on a medal in the 4x100m re­lay. She made the third han­dover to help her team cross fourth in sec­tion one and over­all in 45.83.

Stanis­claus shines on the NJ­CAA cir­cuit

T&T's Ay­la Stanis­claus com­plet­ed the sprint dou­ble at the WTA­MU Joe Meak­er Clas­sic and Mul­ti meet held at the West Texas A&M Uni­ver­si­ty in Amar­il­lo, Texas in the Unit­ed States on the week­end.

The New Mex­i­co Ju­nior Col­lege (JC) fresh­man won the women's 100 me­tres dash in a time of 11.24 (1.6) and then re­turned to the track lat­er to place first with 23.37 in the 200m with some as­sis­tance from the wind (2.2).

On the men's side, T&T had sev­er­al sprint­ers com­pet­ed at the Texas meet and all five New Mex­i­co JC fresh­men raced in the 100m dash. How­ev­er, it was on­ly Tyrell Ed­wards get­ting suc­cess as he placed third with 10.29 (2.8).

He school­mates Onil Mitchell (10.68) and Tim­o­thy Fred­er­icks (10.94), placed 11th and 21st, re­spec­tive­ly while fel­low sprint­ers Jalen Pur­cell and Aaron Brew­ster un­for­tu­nate­ly both false-start­ed.

Pur­cell was able to re­deem him­self in the 200m, fin­ish­ing third with 20.82 (1.5), Fred­er­icks placed 21st with 22.14 (2.8) and Mitchell, did not fin­ish the race.

Ed­wards, Pur­cell and Brew­ster were among the New Mex­i­co JC's quar­tet that won gold in the 4x100m re­lay with 39.56.

Pur­cell al­so copped a sil­ver in the 4x400 with his unit clock­ing 3:10.09 in the fi­nal.

On Fri­day, South Plains fresh­man duo Justin Guy and Camille Lewis were dom­i­nant form pick­ing up gold in their re­spec­tive events at the David No­ble Re­lays in San An­ge­lo, Texas.

Guy won the men's 110m hur­dles with 13.96 (2.5). This af­ter ad­vanc­ing with the fastest qual­i­fy­ing time of 14.20 (3.7) in the pre­lim­i­nar­ies.

Lewis had sim­i­lar suc­cess in the women's 400m hur­dles, pro­gress­ing with fastest time (1:05.10) in the pre­lim­i­nary round be­fore reach­ing the top of the podi­um with 1:03.32.

She picked her sec­ond gold, run­ning the an­chor leg for South Plains in the 4x400m re­lay to place first with 3:52.06.

At the Bethel Col­lege Loren Reuss­er In­vi­ta­tion­al in Kansas, Ju­dah Tay­lor, a But­ler Com­mu­ni­ty Col­lege fresh­man, placed 13th (21.81) in the men's 200m on Sat­ur­day.