SOUTH Plains College stars, Jamaicans Jura Levy and Natoya Goule, triple champions at the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Outdoor Championships in Hutchinson, Kansas, last weekend, were named women’s track athletes of the meet.

Twenty-year-old Levy, a past student of Vere Technical, clocked a wind-aided (3.6m/s) 11.07 seconds to win the 100 metres and a personal best 22.76 seconds to clinch the 200 metres.

She later teamed up with Trinidadian Sparkle McKnight, and compatriots Amoy Blake and Goule for South Plains to take the 4x100m relay in 3 minutes 35.00 seconds.

Goule posted 52.45 seconds to win the 400 metres and 2:08.10 for the 800 metres, to add to the 4x400m relays. Still yet to run the 800m entry A standard of 1:59.80 for the two-lap event at the IAAF World Championships in Daegu, Korea, the 20-year-old Manchester High past student may well have to focus on the 400m, stirring up trouble for Novlene Williams-Mills, Rosemarie Whyte and the dormant Shericka Williams.

Another Jamaican, Kemoy Campbell, also of South Plains College, which is based in Levelland, Texas, ran a personal best 1 minute 50.32 seconds to clinch the 800 metres.

The Bellefield High past student who is also 20-year-old bettered his previous best by more than a second in just two weeks.

Jamaicans were also one-two in the 100m hurdles, with Shanekia Hall of Essex Community College and Leslie-Ann Mitchell of Vincennes University recording wind-assisted times 13.50 seconds and 13.69.

Shana-Gaye Tracey, another Jamaican at South Plains, won the 400m hurdles in a time of 58.96 seconds.

South Plains have now won both the men and women team titles at NJCAA Outdoor Championships for the third consecutive year in the city of Hutchinson, with their head coach Chris Bean taking the award for the men’s and women’s coach of the meet.