KINGSTON, Jamaica— If yesterday’s preliminaries are any indication, today’s finals of the women’s 60m, 60m hurdles and 400m at the NCAA indoor track and field championship at the Randal Tyson complex in Fayetteville, Arkansas are set to sizzle.

Six Jamaica women will be seeking honours when they line up in these finals that will be part of the final session of the three day event that started on Thursday.

Meanwhile the University of Texas freshman Kevona Davis failed to advance to the final of either the 60m or 200m events, placing 14th in the 60m and ninth in the 200m.

Jamaicans Kiara Grant of Norfolk State and Kemba Nelson from the University of Oregon were among seven of the eight women who ran personal best times to get into the 60m finals.

Grant clocked 7.11 seconds, a new school record and Nelson ran 7.13 seconds, third best in Oregon history to earn the right to line up in today’s final that will be led by the University of South Carolina’s Twanisha Terry’s lifetime best 7.09 seconds.

Three Jamaicans will line up in the 60m hurdles after Daszay Freeman of the University of Arkansas ran a new lifetime best 8.05 seconds to win her heat, edging Baylor’s Ackera Nugent- 8.06 seconds while Trishauna Hemmings of Clemson equalled her personal best 8.09 seconds to also advance.

Charokee Young of Texas A&M lowered her personal best in the 400m to 51.64 seconds as she made safe passage to the finals while medal favourite and Big 12 Conference champion Stacey-Ann Williams finished at the back of the field with 54.95 seconds.

In one field event final contested last night, Taisha Pryce of Kansas States finished seventh in the long jump with 6.48m equalling her season’s best jump.

Texas’ Tara Davis broke Jamaican Elva Goulbourne’s collegiate and facility record 6.91m set in 2002 when she jumped 6.93m in the third round to win.

Paul A Reid