STETHS' Peter-gay Reid shows of her gold watch after winning the high school girls high jump Championships at the 114th Penn Relays held in Philadelphia last week. (Photo: Paul Reid)

PHILADELPHIA, USA

St Elizabeth Technical High's (STETHS) Peter-gay Reid completed a successful season last week when she won the High School girls high jump Championships at the 114th Penn Relays held at Franklin Field on the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

The lanky 15-year-old, who might be too young to take part in this summer's IAAF World Junior Championships in Poland due to a relatively new rule which says only athletes who are at least 16-years old can take part, completed her best ever season.

Reid, the CARIFTA Games Under-17 champion who was ranked number two on her first trip to the Penn Relays, cleared a personal best 1.76m to beat a talented field on Thursday's first day of the meet to be western Jamaica's only winner.

Reid who broke the Class three record at Western Champs this year, breaking her sister Merisa Daley's record, clearing 1.74m won every meet except once, Girls Champs when she lost the gold medal on a count back to Wolmer's Girls Shanice Hall, both clearing 1.74m and tying the record held by Shelly-Ann Gallimore.

Reid's teammate Tanesha Edmonds, was a disappointing 16th in the 400m hurdles running 1:05.14 seconds as no Jamaican managed to get into the top 10.

Munro College's Omar Bryan was third in the High School Boys' Discus Throw on Saturday with a 50.48m effort, the bets by any of the three Jamaicans in the event.
Boys' Champs winner Shane Dodd of Jamaica College was fourth with 50.44m while Noel Facey of Calabar threw 50.20m.

Bryan's mark in Philadelphia was a massive improvement over his Boys' Champs disappointment when the first-year Class one athlete finished 12th with 41.12m.

Herbert Morrison Technical's Teivaskie Lewin was fifth in the Long Jump Championships with a best jump of 7.04m after placing second in Class two at Champs with a personal best 7.19m.

In the relays Herbert Morrison and William Knibb Memorial boys qualified for their first ever Championships of America's 4x100m finals after winning their heats on Friday.

Led by IAAF World Youth Championships 100m champion Dexter Lee, Herbert Morrison won their heat in 41.00 seconds the second fastest behind defending champions St Jago High while William Knibb won their heat in 42.19 seconds for the fifth fastest overall.

Herbert Morrison was fifth in the finals in 41.43 seconds while William Knibb was seventh in 41.93 seconds.
Munro College, STETHS and Mannings also contested the heats of the 4x100m.

Herbert Morrison girls had a successful debut at the meet by finishing third in the Small Schools consolation finals in the 4x100m in 47.22 seconds after winning their heat in 47.49 seconds, the sixth best time overall in the Small Schools section.

STETHS was fifth in the same race in 47.97 seconds after finishing second in their heat in 48.42 seconds beaten by St Jago.

Herbert Morrison was also entered in the 4x400m, finishing third in their heat in 3:52.41 seconds, beating their season best 3:54.72 seconds set at the Western Relays in February.

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