N.C.A.A. Division 1 Finalists (Top 8)-O.E.C.S. Athletes
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N.C.A.A. Division 1 Finalists
by Reynold S. O’Neal A.T.F.S.
Top 8 O.E.C.S. Athletes
Anguilla
Shara Proctor
(Florida)
Long Jump: 8th (2008) | 6th (2009) | 5th (2010)
Triple Jump: 4th (2009) | 3rd (2010)
Antigua & Barbuda
Lester Bird
(Michigan)
Long Jump: 4th (1960) | 5th (1961)
Triple Jump: 4th (2009) | 3rd (2010)
Brendan Christian
(Texas)
100m: 8th (2004)
200m: 5th (2003)
4x100m: 7th (2004)
4x400m: 4th (2004)
Lester Benjamin
(Georgia)
Long Jump: 6th (1985)
4X100m: 3rd (1983) | 1st (1984)
Fred Sowerby
(Murray St.)
4x400m: 7th (1971)
400m: 6th (1973)
Maxwell Peters
(Alabama)
Triple Jump: 5th (1978) | 5th (1979)
Rai Benjamin
(U.C.L.A.)
400m Hurdles: 6th (2016) | 2nd (2017) | 1st (2018)
4x400m: 1st (2018)
Heather Samuel
(Murray State)
100m: 6th (1994)
Terri Julian
(Georgia)
4x100m: 6th (1985)
Afia Charles
(Central Florida)
4x100m: 2nd (2013)
Ruperta Charles
(Howard)
4x400m: 5th (1982)
Charmaine Gilgeous
(Alabama)
4x400m: (1994)
Priscilla Frederick
( St.John's )
High Jump: 6th (2010)
British Virgin Islands
Dion Crabbe
(Mississippi State)
100m: 7th (2002)
200m: 5th (2002)
Keita Cline
(Minnesota)
Long Jump: 8th (1995)
Tahesia Harrigan
(Alabama)
100m: 6th (2005) | 4th (2006)
Ashley Kelly
(Illinois)
400m: 8th (2011)
Chantel Malone
(Texas)
Long Jump: 5th (2011)
Triple Jump: 6th (2011)
4x100m: 5th (2011)
4x400m: 1st (2009) | 7th (2010)
Dominica
Bruce Phillip
(Manhattan)
400m: 4th (1989)
Jerome Romain
(Arkansas)
Triple Jump: 2nd (1994) | 2nd (1995)
Erison Hurtault
(Columbia)
400m: 2nd (2011)
Dawn Williams
(Arkansas-Little Rock)
800m: 3rd (1996) | 2nd (1997)
Thea LaFond
(Maryland)
High Jump: 8th (2013)
Grenada
Sean Lambert
(Tennessee)
100m: 4th (2001) | 6th (2003)
Alleyne Francique
(Louisiana State)
400m: 2nd (2001)
4x400m: 3rd (2001)
Joel Phillip
(Arizona State)
400m: 7th (2008)
4x400m: 8th (2010)
Kirani James
(Alabama)
400m: 1st (2010) | 1st (2011)
Randy Lewis
(Wichita State)
Triple Jump: 5th (2003)
Keron Francis
(Boise State)
Javelin Throw: 4th (2004) | 3rd (2006)
Alleyne Lett
(Louisiana State)
Decathlon: 7th (2005)
Kurt Felix
(Boise State)
Decathlon: 1st (2012)
Emron Gibbs
(Southern Miss)
Javelin Throw: 4th (2016)
Lindon Victor
(Texas A & M)
Decathlon: 1st (2016) | 1st (2017)
Bralon Taplin
(Texas A & M)
4X400m: 1st (2010) | 7th (2011)
Anderson Peters
(Mississippi St.)
Javelin Throw: 1st (2018)
Sherry Fletcher
(Louisiana State)
100m: 1st (2007)
200m: 4th (2007)
4x100m: 2nd (2006) | 2nd (2007)
Hazel-Ann Regis
(Louisiana State)
400m: 5th (2003) | 8th (2004)
4x400m: 2nd (2003) | 1st (2004)
Neisha Bernard-Thomas
(Louisiana State)
800m: 2nd (2003) | 1st (2004)
4x400m: 2nd (2003) | 1st (2004)
Trish Bartholomew
(Alabama)
400m: 7th (2007) | 2nd (2008)
Patty Sylvester
(Georgia)
High Jump: 8th (2005)
Long Jump: 2nd (2006)
Jacinta Bartholomew
(Arizona State)
Long Jump: 3rd (1988)
4x100m: 1st (1988)
4x400m: 3rd (1988)
Meisue Francis
(Louisiana State)
4x400m: 1st (2006)
Kanika Beckles
(Texas A & M)
4x400m: 3rd (2012)
Montserrat
Julius Morris
(Western Kentucky)
4x100m: 5th (2016)
St.Kitts and Nevis
Kim Collins
(Texas Christian)
100m: 2nd (2001)
4x100m: 1st (2001)
Melville Rogers
(Louisiana State)
4x400m: 1st (2006)
Delwayne Delaney
(Texas Christian)
4x400m: 2nd (2006)
Diane Dunrod {Francis}
(Alabama)
400m: 2nd (1990) | 4th (2001)
4x100m: 6th (1990)
4x400m: 2nd (1990) | 4th (1991)
Virgil Hodge
(Texas Christian)
200m: 7th (2006) | 6th (2007)
4x100m: 7th (2006) | 4th (2007)
Tiandra Ponteen
(Florida)
400m: 5th (2004) | 2nd (2005)
Valma Bass
(Louisiana State)
200m: 5th (2000)
4x400m: 6th (1998)
Marecia Pemberton
(Florida State)
4x100m: 6th (2011)
Nathandra John
(Texas Christian)
4x400m: 8th (2005) | 7th (2006)
St. Lucia
Dominic Johnson
(Arizona)
Pole Vault: 3rd (1996)
Decathlon: 6th (1997)
Ronald Promesse
(Texas-El Paso)
4x100m: 7th (1999)
Ivan Jean-Marie
(Arizona State)
4x400m: 6th (1995)
Levern Spencer
(Georgia)
High Jump: 8th (2006) | 3rd (2007)
Jeannelle Scheper
(South Carolina)
High Jump: 5th (2013)
Makeba Alcide
(Arkansas)
Heptathlon: 2nd (2013)
Augustina Charles
(Southwest Missouri)
4x400m: 5th (1999)
Vernetta Lesporis
(Southwest Missouri)
4x400m: 5th (1999)
St.Vincent & the Grenadines
Joel Mascoll
(Norfolk State)
4x100m: 7th (1998)
Michael Williams
(U.C.L.A.)
4X400: 6th (1992)
Thomas Dickson
(Ohio State)
4x400m: 7th (2001)
Natasha Mayers
(Southern Cal)
100m: 2nd (2002)
200m: 1st (2002)
Kineke Alexander
(Iowa)
400m: 7th (2005) | 2nd (2006) | 6th (2007) | 8th (2008)
Yvette Haynes
(Rice)
Triple Jump: 7th (1992)
Finalists from other "Small Island States"
Barbados
Obadele Thompson
(Texas-El Paso)
100m: 4th (1995) | 1st (1998) | Qualified but did not compete in 1996
200m: 1st | (1997)
4x400m: 5th (1994)
Jim Wedderburn
(New York Univ.)
400m: 5th (1961)
Elvis Forde
(So. Illinois)
400m: 8th (1984)
4x400m: 4th (1984)
Seibert Straughn
(Murray St.)
4oom: 8th (1991) | 7th (1992)
4x400m: 4th (1984)
Orlando Greene
(Seton Hall)
800m: 4th (1976)
4x400m: 3rd (1974)
Shane Brathwaite
(Texas Tech)
110m Hurdles: 7th (2012)
Greggmar Swift
(Indiana St.)
110m Hurdles: 7th (2013)
Henderson Dottin
(Texas-El Paso)
High Jump: 5th (2004)
Victor Houston
(Auburn)
Decathlon: 1st (2006)
Hamil Grimes
(Kentucky St.)
4x100m: 8th (1976)
4x400m: 2nd (1976)
Pearson Jordan
(Louisiana State)
4x100m: 3rd (1979)
Kirk Cummins
(Louisiana State)
4x100m: made final but DQ’ed
Richard Louis
(Howard)
4x400m: 4th (1982) | 6th (1983)
Terrence Harewood
(Murray St.)
4x400m: 7th (1992)
Steven Roberts
(Murray St.)
4x400m: 7th (1992)
Sonia Gaskin
(Missouri St.)
800m: 7th (2014)
Kierre Beckles
(South Carolina)
100m Hurdles: 6th (2011)
Andrea Blackett
(Rice)
400m Hurdles: 5th (1996) | 2nd (1997)
4x400m: 4th (1996) | 7th (1997)
Desiree Crichlow
(Texas-El Paso)
High Jump: 4th (2003)
Akela Jones
(Kansas St.)
High Jump: 4th (2015)
Heptathlon: 1st (2015) | 3rd (2016)
Shernelle Nicholls
( Missouri)
Shot Put: 8th (2007)
Esme Austin
(So.Carolina St.)
4x100m: 7th (1984)
Sonia Clarke
(So.Carolina St.)
4x100m: 7th (1984)
Julia Sandiford
(Seton Hall)
4x400m: 3rd (1992) | 5th (1993) | 1st (1994) | DNF (1995)
Melissa Straker
(Rice)
4x400m: 4th (1996) | 7th (1997)
Sheena Gooding
(Austin Peay)
800m: 5th (2001)
Bermuda
Calvin Dill
(Seton Hall)
100m: 3rd (1977)
200m: 6th (1977)
Aaron Evans
(Georgia)
800m: 7th (2012)
Nick Saunders
High Jump: 2nd (1983) | 7th (1984) | 5th (1985)
Brian Wellman
(Arkansas)
Triple Jump: 1st (1991) 1st (1992)
Greg Simons
(San Diego St)
4x400m: 4th (1980)
Arantxa King
(Stanford)
Long Jump: 2nd (2010)
Sonya Smith
(Abilene Christian)
Javelin Throw: 5th (1985)
Cayman Islands
Kemar Hyman
(Florida St.)
100m: 6th (2012)
4x100m: 1st (2011) | 2nd (2012)
Ronald Forbes
(Florida Intl)
110m Hurdles: 8th (2008)
Kareem Streete-Thompson
(Rice)
Long Jump: 3rd (1993)
Cydonie Mothersill
(Clemson)
4x100m: 4th (2001)
4x400m: 1st (2001)
Netherlands Antilles
Churandy Martina
(Texas-El Paso)
100m: 6th (2006)
200m: 4th (2006)
4x100m: 3rd (2004)
Caimin Douglas
(Texas-El Paso)
200m: 2nd (2001)
4x100m: 7th (1999) | 3rd (2001)
U.S.Virgin Islands
Tabarie Henry
(Texas A & M)
400m: 8th (2010)
4x400m: 1st (2010) | 1st (2011)
Eddie Lovett
(Florida)
110m Hurdles: 5th (2014)
Leslie Murray
(Delaware St.)
400m Hurdles: 6th (2009)
4x400m: 7th (2011)
Muhammad Halim
(Cornell)
Triple Jump: 7th (2007) | 1st (2008)
Hashim Halim
(Virginia Tech)
Triple Jump: 4th (2011) | 3rd (2012)
Laverne Jones
(Oklahoma)
100m: 6th (2004)
Ameerah Bello
(Morgan St.)
200m: 8th (1998)
400m: 6th (1998)
Flora Hyacinth
(Alabama)
Triple Jump: 5th (1987) | 7th (1988) | 4th (1990)
4x100m: 3rd (1987)
4x400m: 2nd (1986) | 1st but DQ’ed (1987)
Allison Peter
(Texas)
4x100m: 5th (2011)
