Jamaica’s 4x100m relay World Championship bronze medallist Jura Levy has expressed disappointment at her non-selection for the Commonwealth Games team bound for the Gold Coast of Australia.The 27-year-old Levy, who was third at the Senior National Championship last year behind Elaine Thompson and Simone Facey and who represented the island at the London World Championship, was left bemused.“I am extremely disappointed that I wasn’t selected as I take great pride in representing Jamaica. I thought I had earned a spot on the team based on my 2017 season,” Levy told the Jamaica Observer.

Levy was left off the 24-member female team to the Commonwealth Games that included Thompson and Facey and runners who finished behind her in the 100m.

“I feel I was unfairly punished for leaving Jamaica and returning to my former college coach (Blaine Wiley), who is now at Alabama. I am working very hard every day and just using this unfortunate situation as motivation moving forward.

“I have always represented Jamaica well when called upon and I will be ready whenever I am called again in the future, regardless of not being selected this time,” said Levy, who was at Sprintec.

Levy told the Sunday Observer that she received a correspondence from the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) that her name “has been included in a list for selection to the Commonwealth Games and confirmation of your selection to the final list should be had sometime this week”.

That was from February 25, a response is yet to come.

“I emailed JAAA on March 7 to find out why I was not selected, and until this very day I still have not received an answer,” she noted.

Efforts to get a response from the JAAA proved futile as president Dr Warren Blake’s cellphone rang out. Efforts to reach JAAA general secretary Garth Gayle via telephone were also unsuccessful.

However Levy, who has a best time of 11.06 and 22.76 over the 100m and 200m, hopes the selection policy for events such as the Commonwealth Games changes.

“I believe if the committee has a requirement and an athlete fits the requirement, then they should be selected,” she reiterated.

Since then Facey has withdrawn from the team at the 11th hour, citing inadequate travel arrangements.

Levy, the former Vere Technical High School star, left Jamaica for South Plains College and won four gold medals at the 2010 National Junior College Athletics Association championships, taking the 100m and 200m titles and two relay titles.

She has won a number of medals at the CARIFTA Games, including a relay gold in 2006, 200m bronze in 2008, and a sprint gold and silver double at the 2009 CARIFTA Games.

At the international level she was a finalist in both the individual sprints at the 2007 World Youth Championships in Athletics and reached the 200m final at the 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics.Levy began competing at the senior level in 2011 at the Central American and Caribbean Championships, and won silver medals in the 100m 4X100m relay.

She earned her spot to represent Jamaica in the 100m at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics in Daegu and reached the semi-finals of the event. She ran in the heat stage of the women’s relay and, although she did not race in the final, received a world silver medal as part of the team.

Only last year Levy ran personal bests in the 100m heats and semi-finals of the London World Championships, and left with a personal best of 11.06.