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Friday, July 11, 2025

Guevara claims 300m gold

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Rachael Thompson-King
1599 days ago
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Asa Guevara

Asa Guevara

T&T's Asa Gue­vara opened his sea­son with a vic­to­ry in the men's 300 me­tres at the fourth in­stal­ment of the Amer­i­can Track League in­door se­ries in Fayet­teville, Ari­zona, USA on Sun­day.

Gue­vara, a grad­u­ate of the  Uni­ver­si­ty of Texas at El Pa­so (UTEP), clocked 33.11 sec­onds to com­fort­ably beat USA's Jamiel Trim­ble to the line. The Amer­i­can ran a per­son­al best (pb) 33.38 to place sec­ond. The oth­er run­ner in the fi­nal, Niger­ian Charles Okeze, was dis­qual­i­fied.

Rue­bin Wal­ters was the oth­er T&T ath­lete get­ting suc­cess at the meet, as fin­ished as the run­ner-up in the men's 60m hur­dles fi­nal. The for­mer Uni­ver­si­ty of Al­aba­ma (UA) stu­dent crossed in 7.66, be­hind Amer­i­can Michael Dick­son with 7.53. Welling­ton Za­za of Liberia was third with 7.71.

In the pre­lim­i­nary heats, Wal­ters, run­ning in lane four won heat two with a 7.71-clock­ing, to ad­vance to the fi­nal.

T&T had two oth­er ath­letes com­pete at the Fayet­teville meet in­clud­ing quar­ter­mil­er Sparkle McK­night and field ath­lete Por­tious War­ren. Both placed fifth in their re­spec­tive events.

McK­night ran a sea­son's best (sb) 54.14 in the women's 400m to re­spec­tive­ly fol­low to the line, win­ner USA's Shami­er Lit­tle (50.57),  Chrisann Gor­don of Ja­maica (52.06), Mex­i­can Pao­la Moran (52.78) and Amer­i­can Mari­ah Kuyk­endoll (53.61). Lit­tle, Moran and Kuyk­endoll each ran a pb.

In the women's shot put, War­ren, an­oth­er UA grad­u­ate, al­so threw a per­son­al best with 17.53m. It came on her sec­ond at­tempt. She al­so had throws of 17.16, 17.06, 16.83 and 17.43, re­spec­tive­ly. She fouled the fourth at­tempt.

The Amer­i­cans swept the event with win­ner Raven Saun­ders toss­ing a pb of 19.57m, sec­ond was Mag­gie Ewen (19.54m-pb), third was Jes­si­ca Ram­sey (19.50m-pb) and in fourth spot Chase Ealey (17.61m).

On the Ju­nior Col­le­giate (JC) cir­cuit, T&T had two ath­letes fea­ture this week­end at the NJ­CAA Re­gion VI In­door Cham­pi­onships at the Robert W Plas­ter Cen­tre in Pitts­burgh, Kansas in­clud­ing Jerod El­cock and Ju­dah Tay­lor, both of But­ler Com­mu­ni­ty Col­lege (CC).

El­cock, a sopho­more, placed eighth in the men's 60m fi­nal with 7.03 af­ter ad­vanc­ing with the eighth fastest time. He won heat four with 6.84 in the pre­lim­i­nar­ies to ad­vance to the medal race.

He al­so com­pet­ed in the 200m and reached the timed fi­nal. He lined up in sec­tion one but did not fin­ish. He ad­vanced out of the pre­lim­i­nar­ies with the sev­enth-fastest time of 21.82 af­ter plac­ing sec­ond in heat one.

El­cock and Tay­lor, who is al­so in his sec­ond year, met up in the men's 4x400m re­lay fi­nal. Com­pet­ing in sec­tion three of the timed fi­nal, Tay­lor run­ning the third leg, hand­ed off to El­cock, who ran a bril­liant an­chor leg to see But­ler CC to sec­ond spot with a time of 3:13.81, to place sec­ond over­all.

Tay­lor al­so com­pet­ed in the 400m but did not fin­ish.


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