Jonathan Far­in­ha and Lalenii Grant head the list of lo­cal ath­letes who claimed gold at the Col­le­giate Con­fer­ence Out­door Cham­pi­onships in the USA re­cent­ly.

Far­in­ha blazed his way to the Cross Road League men’s 200 me­tres ti­tle in In­di­ana in ear­ly May, in a time of 20.96 sec­onds. The Hunt­ing­ton Uni­ver­si­ty stu­dent’s win­ning time was shy of the 20.76 clock­ing he post­ed in the heats. He then cap­tured his sec­ond gold when he and his twin broth­er Nathan were on the win­ning 4x100m (39.73). Nathan reached the 100m fi­nal af­ter his 10.59 in the pre­lim­i­nary round. How­ev­er, he was dis­qual­i­fied in the medal race.

Grant won the Amer­i­ca East Con­fer­ence women’s dis­cus ti­tle in Durham, New Hamp­shire, on May 4. The Uni­ver­si­ty of Al­bany first-year stu­dent se­cured the top spot with 49.83m on her fourth at­tempt. The Scar­bor­ough Sev­enth Day Ad­ven­tist (SDA)/Scar­bor­ough Sec­ondary grad­u­ate opened with 47.91m and fouled her next two throws be­fore im­prov­ing to 49.83. She record­ed 47.57 in the fifth round, while her sixth and fi­nal at­tempt was ruled foul. Grant dom­i­nat­ed the field, as each of her reg­is­tered throws ex­ceed­ed the dis­tance of sil­ver medal­list Em­ma Reaves (New Hamp­shire), 45.77, and third-plac­er Ver­mont’s Saman­tha Alexan­der, 40.78.

Com­pa­tri­ot and school­mate Nat­tyl Lin­do was 11th (35.76). Lin­don missed out on a medal in the shot put, fin­ish­ing in fourth (13.13). The 2025 Carif­ta Girls Un­der-20 shot put sixth-plac­er was al­so 10th in the ham­mer throw (46.64). Grant and Lin­do’s points con­tributed to Al­bany win­ning the over­all women’s tro­phy with 197 points. Al­bany al­so se­cured the men’s crown (163.5).

Omari Lewis and Rev­el Web­ster were mem­bers of Lib­er­ty’s 4x100m team which won the Con­fer­ence USA (CUSA) gold in Ten­nessee from May 16-18. Lib­er­ty was first across the line in 39.27.

Lewis was al­so sec­ond in the 100m (10.17) and third in the 200m (20.53). Web­ster was sev­enth in the 200m (21.16) af­ter run­ning a per­son­al best of 21.00 in the heats. Web­ster’s sis­ter Re­ece was sec­ond in the women’s 100m (11.37) with Lewis’ sis­ter Ak­i­lah in third (11.44).

The Lewis and Web­ster sib­lings are mem­bers of Con­corde Ath­let­ic Club.

Devin Au­gus­tine and Kion Ben­jamin helped Min­neso­ta to take the men’s 4x100m crown at the Big Ten Out­door Cham­pi­onships in Ore­gon in a quick time of 38.54. Au­gus­tine missed out on a sec­ond gold when he was sec­ond in the 200m (20.87). The Point Fortin New Jets sprint­er was quick­er in the pre­lim­i­nary round (20.47). He was al­so sev­enth in the 100m (10.37) af­ter run­ning 10.27 in the heats. Ben­jamin was 10th (10.34) and 12th (20.89) in the 100m and 200m heats.

Au­gus­tine, who com­pet­ed at the 2024 Paris Olympics, won the 2024 Big Ten Out­door 100m sprint.

An­oth­er Paris Olympian, Leah Bertrand, land­ed bronze in the women’s 4x100m with the Ohio State team, which clocked 45.68. Bertrand sur­ren­dered her women’s 100m crown when the 2024 win­ner end­ed in fourth in 10.20. The Olympic semi­fi­nal­ist was sev­enth in the 200m (23.36). The Sim­plex sprint­er clocked 22.99 in the qual­i­fy­ing round.

De Paul’s Do­minic Cole col­lect­ed gold with his school’s men’s 4x100m squad (39.55). The Abi­lene Wild­cats com­peti­tor was al­so run­ner-up in the 200m (21.27) and fin­ished fourth in the 100m (10.58). Cole clocked 21.20 in the pre­lim­i­nar­ies.

Oth­er re­sults

South­land Con­fer­ence Out­door Champs- Hous­ton, Texas

May 13-17

Men

400m hur­dles

Fi­nal: 3 Den­zel Hinds (Kaizen Pan­thers/Hous­ton Chris­t­ian) 50.75

Pre­lims: 3 Hinds 52.14

4x400m: 9-Hous­ton Chris­t­ian (Hinds) 3:15.46

Mid-East­ern Ath­let­ic Con­fer­ence (MEAC) Champs - Nor­folk, Vir­gina

May 15-17

Women

200m

Fi­nal: 3 Ky­la La For­tu­une (Sim­plex/Cop­pin State) 23.55

Pre­lims: 4 La For­tune 23.94

400m

Fi­nal: 7 La For­tune 58.97

Pre­lims: 6 La for­tune 54.94

4x100m: 2 Cop­pin State (La For­tune) 45.00

4x400m: 5 Cop­pin State (La For­tune ) 3:52.60

NJ­CAA Di­i­sion 1 Out­doir Champs - Hutchin­son, Kansas

May 15-17

Men

400m

Pre­lims: 38 Ste­fan Came­jo (Mem­phis Pi­o­neers/South Plains) 48.18

4x400m: 2-South Plains (Came­jjo) 3:03.52

Team Stand­ings

Men: 1-South Plans 119

Big South Out­door Champs - Asheville, North Car­oli­na

May 12-14

Women

Long jump: 1 Gi­ana Paul (Con­corde/High Point) 5.91

High jump: 1 Paul 1.66

100m hur­dles

Fi­nal: 3 Paul 13.67

Pre­lims: 4 Paul 13.89

4x100m: 1 Hgh Point (Paul) 4541

South West­ern Ath­let­ic Con­fer­ence (SWAC) Out­door Champ - Ba­ton Rouge, Lousi­iana

May 11-13

Women

Javelin: 1 Ky­moi No­ray (Zenith/Jack­son State) 47.00

Ham­mer: 5 No­ray 48.79

Men

De­cathlon:1 Che Rochford (Kaizen Pan­thers/Arkansas-Pine Bluff) 6985 pts

Javelin: 4 Rochford 50.56

800m

Fi­nal: 4Gen­e­sis Joseph (Health Olympians/Arkansas-Pine Bluff) 1:51.49

Pre­lims: 4 (4h1) Gen­e­sis 1:52.02

200m Pre­lims: 12-(1h4) Avin­dale Smith (Abi­lene Wild­cats/Arkansas Pine Bluff) 21.45

Big 12 Out­door Champs -Lawr­rece, Kansas

May 15-17

Women

Long jump: 2 Janae De Gannes (Con­corde/Bay­lor) 6.49

100m

Fi­nal: 8 De Gannes 11.43 (1.8) pb

Pre­lims: 5 De Gannes 1149 (-2.8)

Sun Belt Out­door Champs - Har­rison­burg, Vir­ginia

May 8-10

Women

High jump: 3 Je­lese Alexan­der (Zenith/South­ern Mis­sis­sip­pi) 1.77

Long jump: 6 Alexan­der 6.01

100m

Fi­nal: 6 Tae­jha Badal (Mm­phis Pi­o­neers/Texas State) 11.34 (2.0) pb

Pre­lims: 5 Badal 11.46

200m

Fi­nal: 4 Badal 23.32

Pre­lim: 7 Badal 23.63

4x100m: 4 Texas State (adal) 45.09

Lone Star Out­door Champs

Por­tales, New Mex­i­co

May 1-5

Men

200m

Fi­nal: 4 Tim­o­thy Fred­er­ick (Sim­plex/East­ern New Mex­i­co) 21.15

Pre­lims: 6 Tim­o­thy 21.10

400m Pre­lims: 12 Frred­er­ick 48.43

4x100m: 1 East­ern New Mex­i­co (Fred­er­ick) 40.19

4x400m: 6 East­ern New Mex­i­co (Fred­er­ick) 3:15.74

At­lantic Sun Con­fer­ence (ASUN) Out­door Champs - Jack­sonville, Flori­da,

May 15-17

Women

400m

Fi­nal: 4 Joan­na Rogers (Cougars/Jack­sonille) 54.71

Pre­lims: 3 Rogers 55.21

4x400m: 1 Jack­sonille (Rogers) 3:39.70

South East­ern Con­fer­ence (SEC) Out­door Champs - Lex­ing­ton, Ken­tucky

May 15-17

Men

Long jump: 7 Kelsey Daniel (Kaizen Pan­thers/Texas) 7.68

Triple jump: 7 Daniel 15.79

Shot put: 6 Christop­pher Craw­ford (Kaizen Pan­thers/Al­aba­ma) 19.20

Dis­cus: 7 Craw­ford 58.07, 12 Jaden James (Fa­ti­ma/LSU) 55.91

4x400m: 4 LSU (Sha­keem McK­ay/Abi­lene Wild­cats) 3:03.73

Women

100m

Pre­lims: 24 Sanaa Fred­er­ick (Sim­plex/Geor­gia) 11.66

200m

Pre­lims: 16 San­na Fred­er­ick 23.11 pb, 17 Sole Fred­er­ick (Sim­plex/Geor­gia)

4x100m: 4 Geor­gia (Sole Fred­er­ick) 4319

Grand Lake In­ter­coll­giate Ath­let­ic Con­fer­ence (GLI­AC) Out­door Champs - Al­len­dale, Michi­gan

Apr 30-May 2

Women

4x100m: 9Lake Su­peri­ior Jay­da Willams/Sim­plex) 51.52