TRISHA-ANN Hawthorne of the University of Connecticut clinched the sprint double at the Big East Outdoor Championships last weekend in Cincinnati, Ohio, to continue her remarkable season.

Fittingly, the 20-year-old who represented Jamaica at the 2008 World Junior Championships was named the 2010 Big East Outdoor Women’s Track Athlete of the Year.

Hawthorne broke the Gettler Stadium record of 11.64 seconds in the preliminaries when she ran 11.49 before landing the 100m in 11.44 to defend her title.

She also made a successful defence of the 200m, triumphing in 23.54, and contributed to the Huskies’ win in the 4x100m relay, running the second leg in the quartet of Danielle Lyte, Kristen Brown, and Mandela Graves-Fulgham to clock 45.05.

Nicholas Gordon finished in the top three of the long and triple jumps weekend at the Texas Tech v Nebraska Dual Meet in Lubbock, Texas where Trudean Clarke ran a personal best to win the 400m.

A Calabar past student representing University of Nebraska, Gordon leaped a wind-aided 7.77m for second in the long jump, won by American Bryce Lamb in a wind-aided 8.05m.

Gordon, 21, was third in the triple jump in a personal best 15.88m, as Lamb won in a wind-aided 16.10m with Darrell Roddick second with 16.08m.

Clarke, a Vere Technical past student now at Texas Tech University, captured the one-lap event in 53.40 ahead of college mate American Taylor Evans, 53.79.

Meanwhile, at the Texas Invite at the Mike A Myers Stadium in Austin, Latoya Greaves of the University of Oklahoma won the 100m hurdles in 13.05 seconds, with Latoya Heath sixth in 13.82.

Andrea Sutherland of Texas A&M took the 400m hurdles in 58.65, while Sasha-Kay Mathias second in the long jump in a PB 6.34m.

Wolmerian Julian Reid, also of Texas A&M, was second in the long jump with a season best 7.56m.