Category : College


24 September 2011	Long season took toll on NCAA Participants in Daegu 265 By The collegiate track and field season begins in December with the indoor season and ends with the NCAA Outdoor Championships in June for Division I programs. During this long six-month period, athletes have to adjust from the indoor setting to outdoors while competing in Conference championships for their colleges. The Championships are important as colleges offer scholarships to athletes with the desire to win conferences titles. Top athletes are called upon to compete in several events, including the relays, which can obviously take a toll on their bodies. Exhausted after the end of the NCAA season in mid-June, the athletes had two weeks to prepare for their national trials in late June to earn a spot on their national team to the World Championships, and had to stay sharp and focused for the next two months to perform at their best in Daegu. So, should we be surprised that there were only two collegians atop the ....
27 January 2012	UNC’s Clayton Parros Targets Sub-45 400m this Season 265 By Photo courtesy of UNC's Media Relations Dept.By O'Neil A. Reid “I have done the work and I have done the learning so I am confident that I can go sub-45 on the 400m this season” declared 21 year old Clayton Parros, a junior at the University of North Carolina (UNC). “I feel that this is the year that it will happen.” Clayton, the Seton Hall Prep (NJ) graduate had an impressive 2011 season that saw him establishing his personal best (PB) 45.78 seco....
27 January 2012	Jamaica’s Jura Levy Adjusting Well at Oklahoma Baptist University 265 By By O’Neil A. Reid “My goal this year is to make the Jamaican Olympic team” said Jura Levy, the former Vere Technical graduate. The 21 year old Levy is currently enrolled at Oklahoma Baptist University (OBU) and is now coached by Ford Mastin. Jura spent the past two years at South Plains College under the guidance of Blaine Wiley. The 2011 season brought lots of success for Levy who re-wrote the record books at South Plains during her tenure, claiming records in all indoor and outdoor sprint events from the 55m (6.80 seconds) indoors to the 100m (11.07 seconds) and the 200m (22.76 seconds) outdoors. Levy is the reigning National Association of Intercollegiate....
01 February 2012	Verone Chambers Has Sights on Making Jamaican Olympic Team 265 By by O'Neil A. Reid Jamaica’s Verone Chambers, the 23 year old senior at Oklahoma Baptist University (OBU), is looking forward to having a great season. The Ford Mastin coached Chambers has been dominant in the women’s 400m in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) where she is the defending champion in the one-lap event. Verone is perhaps the most decorated track athlete in OBU history, capping 13 national championships and 19 NAIA All-American mentions. Verone, the Edwin Allen High School (Jamaica) graduate, specializes in the 400m. She has has a personal best 52.72 seconds in that event which she established in June 2011. Excited and Driven ....
17 February 2012	O’Neal Wanliss Making an Impact at North Carolina 265 By By O'Neil A. Reid “I am not as aggressive with my start as I should be, so I am working on that,” said O’Neal Wanliss, the 19-year-old freshman on the University of North Carolina track and field team. Wanliss, the 2011 Georgia state high [caption id="attachment_1042" align="alignright" width="199" caption="O'Neal running the curve in the 600m at the Fielddick Taylor Invitational (Jan 12). Photo courtesy of UNC Athletics"][/caption] school 400m (47.77) and 800m (1.49.62) champion is adjusting well to life at North Carolina. O’Neal, New York-born and of Jamaican parentage, moved to Atlanta at a young age and has established himself as one of the best high school 400m/....