CHANTOBA Bright, Andrea Foster and Natricia Hooper, will be on show at NCAA National Indoor Championships, set for March 11-13 at Randal Tyson Track Centre in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) National Indoor Championship is one of the highly anticipated events in collegiate track and field, especially with a number of athletes looking to make the qualifying standard for the Tokyo Games.
The women qualified for the National Championships following their exceptional showing at their respective conferences Indoor championship.
Bright, competing for Kansas State University, will feature in the Long Jump and will come face-to-face with Hooper in the Triple Jump.
At the BIG 12 Conference, Bright leaped a personal best (PB) 13.60 metres to finish second in the Women’s triple Jump. Nicola Martial’s 13.62 metres is Guyana’s National Indoor Record.

Bright’s distance of 6.43 metres was good enough for fourth place at the BIG 12 Conference.
At the Southeastern Conference (SEC) Championships, Natricia Hooper, suiting-up for the University of Florida, leaped 13.43 metres to finish third in the Women’s Triple Jump. 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).
Meanwhile, Andrea Foster will be just one of six athletes representing Clemson University at the National Championships.
At the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) 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.