PHILADELPHIA, USA — Holmwood Technical’s Chris-Ann Gordon was yesterday named the High School Girls’ Outstanding Relay Athlete of the 2010 Penn Relays after two outstanding anchor legs on winning 4x400m and 4x800m relays on Friday at Franklin Field, University of Pennsylvania.

Holmwood swept the three Championship of Americas relays, the 4x800m, 4x100m and 4x400m, for the first time since 2006 after leaving the meet empty-handed last year.

The 15-year-old Gordon, who was making her first appearance at the meet, split 52.8 seconds to anchor the 4x400m relay team holding off Edwin Allen’s Ristananna Tracey after earlier in the day running 2 minutes 09.95 seconds on the anchor of the 4x800m.

Ironically, she was matched against Tracey — last year’s award winner — in both races, and managed to hold her off.

Tracey ran two good races, splitting 2 minutes 06.72 seconds in the 4x800m and had taken over the lead in the 4x400m before Gordon passed her with 150m to go and went on to win.

Gordon’s win is the 12th for a Jamaican high school girl and third in the last five years.

Vere’s Inez Turner, who anchored the 1991 4x800m team to 8 minutes 37.71 seconds, then a World Junior Record and still the meet record, won or shared the award a record three times in 1989, 1990 and 1991.

Bev McDonald of Vere won the first for the Jamaicans in 1987. Another Vere runner, Claudine Williams, won twice 1992 and 1993; Tanya Jarrett of Manchester High won in 1994; Holmwood’s Sheryl Morgan won in 2001, followed by Vere’s Simone Facey in 2004 and Sonita Sutherland of Holmwood in 2006.