INDIRA Spence of Adam State College served up a triple treat at the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) Indoor Championships, in Chadron, Nebraska, winning the 55 metres, 200 metres and 55m hurdles at the weekend.

A past student of Vere Technical, the 25-year-old Spence ran personal bests in both the 55 metres and 55m hurdles with times of 6.90 and 7.65 seconds, respectively.

In the 55m, Spence beat countrywoman Jilisa Grant (7.03) of New Mexico Highlands University and Grizzlies teammate Zenobia Sims, 7.06.

Spence won ahead of Kaymarie Jones (7.84 seconds), also of Adam State and Grant (7.92) in the 55m hurdles to nail her second gold.

In the 200m, the Vere standout posted a season-best 24.20 seconds to triumph over compatriot Grant, 24.50, and Fiona James (24.90), who also attends New Mexico Highlands University.

Spence’s strength has been in the hurdles where she was NCAA Division II indoor champion for the past two years. She has also been Jamaica’s 100m hurdles champion for the past two years, running a personal best 12.93 seconds at last year’s World Championships in Daegu, Korea.

Meanwhile, Tarika Williams of the University of Miami posted a season-best 23.61 seconds to take the runner-up spot in the 200m at the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Indoor Championships at the Reggie Lewis Center, in Roxbury, Massachusetts weekend.

The 23-year-old, a past student of The Queen’s School, just failed to defend her title as Clemson University’s freshman Dezerea Bryant triumphed with a personal best 23.26. Stormy Kendrick, also of Clemson, placed third clocking 23.66.

In the 60m, like last year, Williams finished fourth after timing 7.33 as Clemson swept the top three positions with Bryant also clinching the 60m with 7.25, ahead of Jasmine Edgerson, 7.27, and Kendrick, 7.31.

At the Southeastern Conference (SEC) Indoor Championships in Lexington, Kentucky, Shanekia Hall of Louisiana State University (LSU) registered a personal best 8.15 seconds to finish third in the 60m hurdles.

American Jasmin Stowers of LSU won the event in a personal best 8.03, ahead of Barbadian Kierre Beckles of the University of South Carolina, Columbia, who set a national record in a personal best 8.11.

Another Jamaican, Keisha Wallace of Mississippi State University, finished fourth in a personal best 8.24.

However, the Nutter Fieldhouse Track at the University of Kentucky, where the SEC Indoor Championships was held, is considered oversized.

At the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) Indoor Championships in Nampa, Idaho, Micara Vassell of Louisiana Tech University threw a personal best 15.49 metres for second in the shot put.

In fact, the top three recorded personal bests with American Meagan McKee of California State University, Fresno winning with 15.7m, while New Zealand’s Te Rina Keenan of the University of Hawaii, Manoa taking third with a throw of 15.47m.

Twenty-one-year-old Vassell, a past student of St Hugh’s High, has made remarkable improvements in the shot put, soaring from 14.35m at the end of the last indoor season to 15.49m so far this season.

Ranked at No 49, she still has some way to go to reach the NCAA Division I Automatic qualifying mark of 17.20m. Only six athletes have so far met that standard.