T&T jumpers Al­isha St Louis and Kelsey Daniel and sprint­er Jerod El­cock copped sil­ver medals at var­i­ous meets in the both the Na­tion­al Col­le­giate Ath­let­ic As­so­ci­a­tion (NCAA) and Na­tion­al Ju­nior Col­le­giate Ath­let­ic As­so­ci­a­tion (NJ­CAA) cir­cuit over the week­end in the Unit­ed States.

St Louis, a East­ern Michi­gan Uni­ver­i­ty se­nior, placed sec­ond in the women's triple jump event at the Grand Val­ley State Uni­ver­si­ty (GV­SU) Snow­down Show­down at the Lak­er Turf Build­ing in Al­len­dale, Michi­gan. Her best jump mea­sured 11.74 me­tres.

She al­so com­pet­ed in the long jump event and fin­ished fifth with a dis­tance of 5.36m.

Daniel, a fresh­man at New Mex­i­co Ju­nior Col­lege, end­ed in sec­ond place in the men's long jump event at the New Mex­i­co Clas­sic at Al­ber­querque Con­ven­tion Cen­tre.

He left it for late but his huge ef­fort in the sixth and fi­nal jump mea­sured 7.59m to claim the sil­ver. Daniel, the reig­ing Pan Am Ju­nior long-jump sil­ver medal­list, al­so had marks of 7.03m in the first, 7.37m in the sec­ond, fouled the third and fourth at­tempts and reg­is­tered a 6.96m in the penul­ti­mate round.

His New Mex­i­co JC school­mate, sopho­more Tim­o­thy Fred­er­ick, won sec­tion five in the qual­i­fy­ing rounds of the men's 60m with a time of 6.97 sec­onds and placed ninth. In the 200m, Fred­er­ick was al­so ninth over­all with 21.74 af­ter cross­ing third in sec­tion four.

El­cock, a But­ler Com­mu­ni­ty Col­lege sopho­more, com­pet­ing at the Frank Se­vi­gne Husker In­vi­ta­tion­al at the De­vaney Cen­ter In­door Track in Lin­coln, Ne­bras­ka, fin­ished sec­ond in the men's 60m dash with 6.75, the same time he ad­vanced with from the pre­lim­i­nar­ies. It was the the sec­ond fastest time among the qual­i­fiers for the medal race.

His school­mate sopho­more Ju­dah Tay­lor end­ed in sev­enth spot in the men's 400m timed fi­nal with 49.05.

El­cock and Tay­lor made up half of But­ler's 4x400m team but they did not fin­ish the re­lay event un­like On­al Mitchell's North­ern Iowa, who rossed sixth with 3:19.41 in the timed fi­nal.

Mitchell, a sopho­more, al­so faced the starter in the men's 400m and end­ed in 15th spot with 50.12.

T&T had sev­er­al track ath­letes com­pete at the Char­lie Thomas In­vi­ta­tion­al at the Texas A&M's Gilliam In­door Track Sta­di­um, Col­lege Sta­tion.

Fresh­man Taed­ja Badal of the host team placed 15th in the women's 200m with a 24.41-clock­ing while Al­aba­ma sopho­more Ay­la Stanis­claus was 49th with 25.49. Stanis­claus al­so com­pet­ed in the 60m dash but false-start­ed in the pre­lim­i­nary round.

South Plains fresh­man Camille Lewis com­pet­ed in three events but did not reach the podi­um in any. She lined up in the 800m and was 37th (2:23.47). Lewis was part of the South Plains quar­tet, who placed 10th in the dis­tance med­ley re­lay (12:48.90) and 14th (3:51.33) in the 4x400m re­lay.

Her South Plains school­mate, fresh­man Justin Guy, com­pet­ed in the men's 60m hur­dles and fin­ished 12th with 8.10. The event was won by Bar­ba­dos Shane Brath­waite, run­ning un­at­tached, with 7.77.

At the Meyo In­vi­ta­tion­al in Notre Dame, In­di­ana, Iowa sopho­more Ian­na Roach placed 13th with 14.23m in the women's shot put.

At the New Mex­i­co Clas­sic at Al­ber­querque Con­ven­tion Cen­tre, West Texas A&M sopho­more Jalen Pur­cell placed sixth in the men's 200m with 21.56.

On Sat­ur­day at the LSU Bay­ou Ben­gal Track and Field meet, Akan­ni His­lop (Tiger Olympians) placed 12th over­all with 6.90 in the men's 60m. He won heat one in the pre­lim­i­nary round with 6.90 to move on with fourth-fastest time and then placed fifth with the same time in the next round to be 12th over­all.

Git­tens trans­fers to Texas "Long­horns"

T&T's Tyra Git­tens, a Texas A&M All-Amer­i­can, has trans­ferred to the Uni­ver­si­ty of Texas at Austin which, she an­nounced on Twit­ter on Wednes­day.

Git­tens in a graph­ic of her­self wear­ing a Long­horn uni­form on Wednes­day af­ter­noon in a post which in­clud­ed text of two “hook ’em, Horns” hand signs and two words: “Enough said.”

Git­tens won the pen­tathlon and high jump at the NCAA In­door Cham­pi­onships last sea­son then won the hep­tathlon at the NCAA out­door meet. She scored 50 points for the Ag­gies be­tween the two meets. In a post last month on In­sta­gram, Git­tens thanked A&M for the “many op­por­tu­ni­ties” the school pro­vid­ed her.

Git­tens rep­re­sent­ed T&T at the virus-de­layed 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games in Japan. She com­pet­ed in the long jump event.