GC Foster College’s Chadic Hinds sped to 10.24 seconds to be the overall winner of the men’s 100 metres event, while his teammate Sashalee Forbes took the women’s equivalent in 11.34 seconds at the first Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) All Comers Meet at the National Stadium on Saturday.

Hinds, who will be quietly hoping to make his presence felt at Jamaica’s Senior National Trials in July, looked good and was marginally quicker than Everton Clarke of GC Foster, who was second in 10.32 seconds.

Sprintec’s Jermaine Hamilton, who was the lead-off runner for the Jamaica 4x100m team that won at the recent Penn Relays, captured his heat in 10.32 seconds. Collin King of GC Foster clocked 10.35s.

Former teenage sensation Dexter Lee of Akan Track Club, who won the World Youth and World Junior 100m titles, was down the track in 10.82 seconds, and is struggling to get back to top form. His brother Keniel Lee, also of Akan, was second in his heat in 10.42 seconds.

Another high school prodigy, Jazeel Murphy formerly of Bridgeport High, who won successive 100m Carifta Games titles in 2011 and 2012, also struggled to 10.50s in his heat. Murphy, now 22, and representing Racers Track Club, was seen as the next big thing coming out of Jamaica after he clocked 10.27 seconds as a teenager.

Tyquendo Tracey of the University of Technology (UTech) was timed at 10.50s, while former St Jago High star Chad Walker did 10.64 seconds. St Jago’s Raheem Chambers, who is set to attend Auburn University, clocked 10.55 as he fine-tunes for the Junior Trials.

In the women’s 100m, Sashalee Forbes of GC Foster was quickest overall with 11.34 seconds, ahead of Xian-George Reid of UWI in 11.44 seconds. Janelle Kelly of UTech was third fastest with 11.65 seconds.

Cameron Blazer’s Samantha James and Jody-Ann Muir of MVP clocked identical 53.12 seconds for the 400m. Mberihonga Kanovazu, also of MVP, was third fastest with 54.96s.

Javere Bell of Cameron Blazers won the men’s 400m in a time of 46.53 seconds, ahead of former St Jago star Nathan Allen (46.48s), another athlete on his way to Auburn University. Jonia McDonald of MVP was third overall after stopping the clock at 46.61 seconds.

World Youth 400m champ ion Martin Manley, now at Cameron Blazers, was timed in 46.86 seconds, while Twayne Crooks, formerly of Vere Technical and Kingston College, now at University of Technology, did 47.02 seconds and was eighth fastest overall. Riker Hylton of Cameron Blazers did 47.12 seconds.

Traves Smikle of the University of the West Indies threw 61.90 metres to win the men’s discus well ahead of his teammate Basil Bingham with 55.41m. GC Foster’s Glenford Watson was third with 53.45m.

Isheka Binns of UWI captured the women’s discus with a throw of 51.86m, ahead of her teammate Venique Harris with 50.13m. The unattached Debisha Scarlett was third with 48.53 ahead of Genneve Grange with 45.05m.

Shawn D Thompson of St Jago leapt to 7.55m to win the men’s long jump, ahead of Joseph Ramie of MVP with 7.35m stop Tajay Gayle of UTech was third with 7.30m.

— Howard Walker