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Jamaican Hurdler Shermaine Williams Commits to Attend JCSU
JCSU Adds Talent Both On and Off the Track


Dec. 20, 2007
 

Highly decorated Jamaican hurdler, Shermaine Williams will join the Golden Bulls Track and Field program in January. Her athletic career will be guided by new JCSU head track and field coach Lennox Graham, who has coached several national and international athletes.
Shermaine is the current World Youth Championships silver medalist in the 100m hurdles where she ran 13.47 seconds to finish second in that event in Ostrava, Czech Republic last summer. Her time of 13.37 seconds in the preliminaries is still the fastest time in the event at the Championships. She is a highly decorated hurdler having won the Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA) Games Under-20 girls 100m hurdles last Easter in a championships record - 13.51 seconds. She has been undefeated at the high school championships for three consecutive years winning in class III once and two years in class II.

"I feel very happy about the opportunity to continue my education, to represent the JCSU golden bulls and to reunite with my coach (Lennox Graham)," remarked Shermaine.
Coach Graham and coach Lorna Vernon introduced Shermaine to the hurdles event five years ago and have been coaching her during her years at Convent of Mercy Alpha (high school). Under coach Graham's guidance, she has won medals each year at the High School Championships, at the CARIFTA Games, Junior Central American and Caribbean (CAC) games and the World Youth Championships.
Shermaine intends to major in biology and is looking forward to the opportunities and experiences ahead.

PERFORMER OF THE WEEK: Wilson starts season in style
published: Saturday | April 12, 2008 - Jamaica Gleaner
 

NICKEISHA WILSON, one of the youngest World Championships 400m hurdles finalists of all time, has started her 2008
outdoor season in blazing fashion.

At 21, Wilson, who is the second youngest to finish in the top four at the World Championships (Jana Rawlinson was 20 when she took her first title in 2003), raced to an impressive personal best at last weekend's Texas Relays.
 
It, however, was in the women's 100m hurdles where Wilson, who is eyeing a spot on Jamaica Olympic team this summer, sped to a sizzling 12.85 seconds to beat former Queen's School athlete and Jamaica junior Latoya Greaves, competing
for Oklahoma Baptist University (13.19).

FOURTH FASTEST

It was behind this performance, which ranks her the fourth fastest in the event this year, that she has been selected The Gleaner's Top Performer of the Week.

A 400m hurdles silver medallist at last year's Pan American Games in Brazil, Wilson's victory followed her impressive showing at the Louisiana State University (LSU) Tiger Relays the weekend before where she ran 13.19 seconds to capture the event.
 
Wilson, a star athlete at LSU, is gearing up for the summer Olympic in Beijing, China, where will be a strong contender for a medal in the 400m hurdles. The former Convent of Mercy High School - Alpha standout's 53.97 seconds for fourth at the World Championships last year ranks her with 1996 Olympic champion Deon Hemmings-McCatty (52.82), Sandra Farmer-Patrick (52.79), running for the US, and Debbie Ann Parris-Thymes (53.88) as the only Jamaicans to break the 54-second barrier.
 

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