Twenty-two-year-old Senoj-Jay Givans’ short but promising track and field career could be over after he failed to make the Jamaican Olympic team, finishing sixth in the men’s 100m final in his first Supreme Ventures Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) National Senior Championships at the National Stadium last Friday night.

The former Munro College sprinter, who represented Jamaica at the junior level before moving to the University of Texas, came into the four-day championships with high expectations after running 9.96 seconds in the first round of the men’s 100m at the NCAA Division One Championships a month ago.

After his sixth-place finish in 10.06 seconds, second from last with Usain Bolt not facing the starter after an injury, a tearful Givans told the

Jamaica Observer he was walking away.

“I am done, I am just going to graduate college and hang the spikes up,” Givans told the Observer before collapsing in the arms of his coach.

Givans, who progressed smoothly through the round and pushed Bolt all the way in the semi-finals, said: “I did not make the team, I finished sixth and I came here to be on the team and I am very disappointed.”

Asked whether his fast times on the NCAA circuit the last two years might have given him hopes of taking one of the places to Rio, he said: “Yes. I know this is not the best of me and I can do much better.”

Not even a spot on the team to the NACAC Under-23 Championships in El Salvador next weekend seemed to be of interest to Givans as he just shook his head as tears flowed.