FRESH off of her silver medal performance for Wolmer’s Girls’ at the recently concluded Inter-secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA)/GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships, Danielle Noble went one better to land gold for Jamaica with a leap of 1.73m, winning the Girls’ Under-17 high jump at the 49th staging of the Carifta Games in Kingston, Jamaica.

It was the first event to be decided at the Carifta Games as Noble improved on her personal best of 1.71m which she set only one week ago.

Noble said she had fun at her very first Carifta Games, despite a few nerves.

“I feel happy and excited and glad that I did my best; I had fun. I was trying to keep calm and stay relaxed. I felt elated that I came first,” she said.

Noble’s coach, Olivia Marshall, who was coaching at her first Carifta Games, was delighted for her charge.

“It was good. I am satisfied, and I am sure that she is satisfied too with a new personal best. She ended her season well so I think it’s good.”

Marshall said the gold medal for Noble was the culmination of a very good season for her athlete.

“Ever since the season started, she has been improving, achieving [a] personal best each week at each track meet.”

Marshall, a former javelin thrower for Edwin Allen High and G C Foster College of Physical Education and Sport, has high hopes for Noble as a senior athlete in the future.

“I think she will become a good professional athlete,” the coach said.

In addition to the gold won by Noble, Jamaica also tallied a silver medal when Natassia Burrell finished second in the Girls’ Under-17 shot put.