Record Breaking Start to Outdoor Season
The opening to the 2021 outdoor season was impressive for 3 Vincentian student-athletes, who either broke, or threatened various records for school and country.
University of Oklahoma sophomore, Mikeisha Welcome, triple jumped into her outdoor season, by breaking her own national record at the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays on March 27th. She jumped 13.57m, which broke the record of 13.15m she set when she placed 3rd at the 2019 Pan Am U20 Championships in Costa Rica.
Her jump in Texas earned her a 2nd place finish.
Kemroy Cupid, in his senior year at Bethel College, started his campaign by breaking the school’s 100m and 200m records, at the Jinks invite Track Meet. He won the 200m in 21.47 and was 2nd in the 100m in 10.61s.
Meanwhile, Arkansas’ Shafiqua Maloney ran a PB in her first 400m of the season also at the Texas Relays, in 51.72. Shafiqua has been in fiery form for so far this year, breaking the National Indoor 800m record twice in one month
Expected to go even faster as the season progresses, we may very well see her break the National Record of 51.23, held by Kineke Alexander-Stay.
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