Goule smashes Turner's 1000m record

BY PAUL BURROWES Observer writer

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

JAMAICA'S 19-year-old middle-distance sensation Natoya Goule, a South Plains College freshman, broke the third national record in the NJCAA last Friday when she posted 2:44.73 in the 1,000 metres at the Texas Tech Quad Meet in Lubbock.

Goule, in her usual style, took the lead early and never let up, winning by almost 11 seconds. The Manchester High past student broke countrywoman Inez Turner 20-year-old mark by 4.47 seconds.

She added the NJCAA 400 metre record on February 5 when she clocked 53.27 seconds, and the 600 yards on January 21 in a personal best 1:18.82 on an oversized track.

A member of last year's World Junior Championships 4x400m bronze relay team, Goule hopes to make her mark at the NJCAA Indoor Championship on March 4 at Texas Tech University.

Meanwhile, Dane Hyatt of Lincoln University in Missouri ran a season-best 47.46 seconds in the 400 metres to secure a berth in the NCAA Division II Indoor Championships in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from March 11-12.

Hyatt was competing at the Nebraska Tune-Up meet in Lincoln, Nebraska, last weekend which he won and will join compatriots Roxroy Cato also of Lincoln, and Leford Green and Akino Ming of Johnson C Smith Unviversity.

Other Jamaicans competing at the Nebraska Tune-Up was Nicholas Gordon of the University of Nebraska, who won the long jump with a mark of 7.75 metres on his first jump.

Chad Wright, also of the University of Nebraska, was third in the shot put with a throw of 17.60 metres, after his Huskers teammates Americans Luke Pinkelman, 19.43 and Tyler Hitchler, 18.42.

Edwin Allen past student Gayon Evans of Oklahoma Baptist University equalled her personal best 7.33 seconds in the 60 metres to stay atop the field in NAIA.

The 21-year-old Evans, a member of the 2007 World Youth Championships silver medal medley relay team and the 2008 World Junior Championships 4x100m silver medal quartet, also ran a personal best 23.98 seconds in the 200m.

She beat countrywoman Verone Chambers, also an Edwin Allen past sudent, who clocked a personal best 24.05 seconds.

Both will be on show at the NAIA Indoor Track Championships on March 3-5 in Ohio.