T&T's An­dre Mar­cano copped a sil­ver medal in the men's 60 me­tres at the Vil­lano­va In­vi­ta­tion­al at the Ocean Breeze Ath­let­ic Com­plex in New York in the Unit­ed States on Sat­ur­day.

The Cen­tral Park Track Club sprint­er clocked a time of 6.87 sec­onds to fin­ish a close sec­ond to Delaware State Uni­ver­si­ty fresh­man Ibrahim Ban­gu­ra with 6.85. This af­ter ad­vanced with the fastest qual­i­fy­ing time of 6.88.

An­oth­er lo­cal sprint­er Se­moy Hack­ett was in ac­tion on the week­end as well and in the women's 60m dash fi­nal, she crossed in 7.54 to place sev­enth at the Hous­ton G5 & Su­per 22 In­vi­ta­tion­al at the Hous­ton-Yeo­man Field House in Hous­ton, Texas on Fri­day.

On the Col­lege cir­cuit, Lisa Wick­ham of Ten­nessee Tech im­pressed on the track while sev­er­al T&T stu­dent-ath­letes nar­row­ly missed out on podi­um fin­ish­es.

Wick­ham, a se­nior, sped to vic­to­ry in the women's 60m with 7.28 at the Buc­ca­neer Track & Field In­vi­ta­tion­al held at the East Ten­nessee State-Memo­r­i­al Cen­tre in John­son City. This af­ter ad­vanc­ing with the lead­ing times in the pre­lim­i­nary round (7.43) and semi­fi­nal heats (7.31), go­ing faster each time.

At the Ra­zor­back In­vi­ta­tion­al held at the Ran­dal Tyson In­door Cen­tre in Fayet­teville, Ari­zona, Louisiana State Uni­ver­si­ty (LSU) se­nior Akan­ni His­lop just missed out on a medal in the men's 200m plac­ing fourth with a 20.83-clock­ing. He al­so com­pet­ed in the 60m and placed 16th in 6.81.

Texas A&M ju­nior Tyra Git­tens was al­so a fourth-place fin­ish­er in the women's high jump with a best leap of 1.84m. On the track, she placed 15th in the women's 60m hur­dles at Texas Tech In­vi­ta­tion­al, Sports Per­for­mance Cen­ter in Lub­bock, TX

At the Scar­let and White In­vi­ta­tion­al at the Boston Uni­ver­si­ty Track & Ten­nis Cen­tre in Boston, Mass­a­chu­setts, se­nior Aaron Lewis of Cop­pin State Uni­ver­si­ty placed 17th in the men's 200m with 22.20.

His school­mate Nku Hen­ry, se­nior as well, al­so faced the starter in the half-lap event but was pe­nalised for a false start.

Hen­ry al­so com­pet­ed in the 400m and 52.47 to com­plete the lap to place 27th in an­oth­er timed fi­nal.

Uni­ver­si­ty of Col­orado fresh­man Tamia Badal raced in two events at Col­orado In­vi­ta­tion­al in Boul­der. She crossed third in sec­tion two with 25.81 to place sev­enth over­all in the 200m and was fifth in the 60m hur­dles fi­nal with 8.62.

T&T ath­letes al­so had sev­er­al suc­cess­es at the NJ­CAA lev­el in­clud­ing gold­en per­for­mances from Ay­la Stanis­claus of New Mex­i­co Ju­nior Col­lege (JC) at the New Mex­i­co Team Open and Kade­sha Prescott of Pratt Com­mu­ni­ty Col­lege (CC) and Safiya John of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Arkansas-Pine Bluff at the Pitts­burg State In­vi­ta­tion­al in Kansas.

Fresh­man Stanis­claus won gold in the women's 60m with 7.37 af­ter pro­gress­ing to the medal race with the fastest qual­i­fy­ing time of 7.43. She al­so bagged a bronze in the 200m plac­ing sec­ond in sec­tion two of the timed fi­nal with 24.11.

Fresh­man Jalen Pur­cell al­so of New Mex­i­co JC placed fifth with 6.77 in the men's 60m fi­nal and na­tion­al sprint­er Em­manuel Cal­len­der (Un­at­tached) fin­ished 11th 6.84 in the pre­lim­i­nary round and did not ad­vance.

At Pitts­burg State meet, sopho­more Kade­sha Prescott won the women's 60m with a 7.39-clock­ing and she placed sec­ond over­all in 200m with 24.49 af­ter cross­ing first in sec­tion nine.

John, a sopho­more, won the women's 60m dash in 8.60 and over on the field, she placed sixth in the long jump with 5.48m.