Bright, Hooper, Foster on podium at NCAA Indoor championships
Chantoba Bright proudly shows off her second-place women’s long jump medal at the NCAA BIG 12 Indoor Championships.
Chantoba Bright proudly shows off her second-place women’s long jump medal at the NCAA BIG 12 Indoor Championships.

…Joanna Archer impressive for Texas Tech

IT was a successful weekend on the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division One Track and Field circuit for some of Guyana’s top athletes, as Natricia Hooper, Chantoba Bright and Andrea Foster found the podium in their respective events.
At the NCAA BIG 12 Conference Indoor Championships, Bright, competing for Kansas State, leaped 13.60 metres to finish second in the Women’s triple Jump.
Thought of setting a Personal Best, Bright told Chronicle Sport that she would’ve been happy to surpass Nicola Martial’s 13.62 metres National Record, which was set in 1996 in Indianapolis.

Clemson’s Andrea Forster (L) and University of Florida’s Natricia Hooper.

Bright would return to set another Personal Best, this time in the women’s long jump, where her 6.43 metres was good enough for fourth place. Her previous best leap at the Long Jump at Indoor competition was 6.22 metres.
Known as Guyana’s most decorated CARIFTA Games athlete, Bright would eventually help her school to finish third in the women’s Championship at the BIG 12 event. Meanwhile, Joanna Archer played her part in helping Texas Tech win the NCAA BIG 12 Conference Indoor Championship.
Archer ran two minutes, 10.06 seconds (2:10.06) in the Women’s 800 metres finals to finish fifth. Though narrowly missing out on a place at the podium, Archer’s time was a personal best in the event.

Over at the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Indoor Championships, Foster clocked two minutes, 03.54 seconds (2:03.54) to finish third in the women’s 800 metres for Clemson University. The time, a Personal Best, was the third fastest in the school’s history.
Foster recently returned to Clemson University after wrapping up her Degree in Health Science. She came close to Marian Burnett’s National Indoor record of 2:02.27, set at the 2008 World Indoor Championships in Spain.

At the NCAA Southeastern Conference (SEC) Indoor Championships, Natricia Hooper, suiting-up for the University of Florida, leaped 13.43 metres to finish third in the Women’s Triple Jump. Hooper moved to the University of Florida from Essex County College in 2019. The Guyanese is ranked 5th All-Time in the Gators’ history in the Women’s Triple Jump for her mark of 13.53 metres (set in 2019).

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