GUYANA’S Claudrice McKoy, Avon Samuels and Onassha Rogers, all freshmen at Monroe College, continued their impressive showing at the National Junior College Athletics Association level, competing over the weekend at NYC’s Gotham Cup at the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex.

Rogers turned in a pair of impressive efforts, first finishing third place in the 60-metre race with a time of 7.66 seconds and followed that up later with a fifth-place finish in the 200 metres, clocking 25.52 seconds, earning an NJCAA National Championship qualifying time in the process.

McKoy ran the 3,000 metres for the first time at the college level, completing the race in a time of 10 minutes 55.11 seconds (10:55.11) to qualify for the NJCAA Championships and finish ninth overall in the event.

Samuels improved her qualifying time in the 400 metres, finishing with a personal-best time of 56.68 seconds to take second place overall.
The Mustangs will compete next weekend (January 26 – 27) in the John Thomas Terrier Invitational, hosted by Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts.