T&T's Tyra Git­tens leaped to sec­ond place in the women's high jump event at the Big 12 In­door Cham­pi­onships, which un­fold­ed over the week­end at the Leid Recre­ation Cen­tre in Ames, Iowa in the Unit­ed States.

Git­tens, who at the be­gin­ning of the in­door sea­son trans­ferred from Texas A&M to the Uni­ver­si­ty of Texas at Austin, copped a sil­ver medal in the high jump at a clear­ance of 1.84 me­tres.

The 2020 Toyko Olympian and se­nior stu­dent-ath­lete al­so com­pet­ed in the long jump and placed fifth with a 6.29m-leap.

Fel­low Olympian Dwight St Hillaire of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ken­tucky (UK) al­so fea­tured in two events at the South­east­ern Con­fer­ence (SEC) In­door Cham­pi­onships at the Gilliam In­door Track Sta­di­um in Col­lege Sta­tion in Texas, USA on Fri­day and Sat­ur­day.

The UK se­nior clocked 46.10 sec­onds in the men's 400m and placed sixth over­all in the timed fi­nals. He ad­vanced from the pre­lim­i­nary heats with the sev­enth-fastest qual­i­fy­ing time of 46.50.

St Hilliare did not leave emp­ty-hand­ed though as he ran the third leg in the 4x400m re­lay, to help Ken­tucky place third with a time of 3:04.04.

South Flori­da se­nior Joshua St Clair al­so came away with a re­lay medal at the Amer­i­can In­door Track & Field Cham­pi­onships in Birm­ing­ham, Al­aba­ma. The T&T quar­ter-mil­er ran the sec­ond leg to see his team take sil­ver in the men's 4x400m re­lay with 3:14.47.

St Clair al­so faced the starter in the 400m and he placed ninth with a 49.04-tim­ing and did not progress out of the pre­lim­i­nary round. He was al­so in the line-up for the dis­tance med­ley re­lay, again run­ning the sec­ond leg, as his team fin­ished sev­enth with a clock­ing of 10:30.40.

Lone Star Con­fer­ence in Lub­bock, Texas, Jalen Pur­cell of West Texas A&M was an eighth-place fin­ish­er in the men's 60m with a time of 7.02, much slow­er than his 6.77 which he pro­duced in the pre­lim­i­nary heats, the fifth-quick­est qual­i­fy­ing time.

The sopho­more lined up for the 200m but he un­for­tu­nate­ly false-start­ed.

East­ern Michi­gan se­nior Al­isha St Louis was in ac­tion at the Mid-Amer­i­can In­door Track & Field Cham­pi­onships in Kent, Ohio. She end­ed in 11th place in the women's triple jump event with her best leap, mea­sur­ing 11.66m.

At the Mis­souri Val­ley Con­fer­ence (MVC) Cham­pi­onship, North­ern Iowa sopho­more On­al Mitchell placed 17th in the men's 400m with a 50.64-clock­ing while at the Big Ten Cham­pi­onships in Gene­va, Ohio, Ian­na Roach of Iowa placed 22nd in the women's shot put with 14.42m. The for­mer ju­nior "Sports­woman of the Year" reg­is­tered a foul in the first round and then got to a 13.75m-mark on the sec­ond throw.