PHILADELPHIA, USA — Holmwood Technical’s Cedricka Williams broke the high school girls’ discus throw record to lead three Jamaican wins in the field events on Friday’s second day of the 127th staging of the Penn Relays Carnival in cold and wet conditions at Franklin Field in Philadelphia.

Williams, who broke the Class One record at the ISSA Champs last month and then won the Carifta Games Under-20 title earlier this month, threw 57.23m to retain her title here as she extended her brilliant final season in high school competition.

There were also wins for Camperdown High’s Britannia Johnson who won the shot put with 14.04m and St Jago High’s Jade-Ann Dawkins who won the triple jump with 13.02m (0.8m/s).

Williams’s big throw came in the fourth round to break the previous record of 54.72m set in 2016 by Shanice Love, then of Excelsior High.

Williams is the fifth Jamaican to break the Penn Relays record after Kamesha Marshall of Manning’s School in 2000, Danniel Thomas of Edwin Allen High in 2012, Gleneve Grange in 2013 and Love.

St Jago’s Abigail Martin was second with 54.54m, Britannie Johnson of Camperdown High was third with 47.33m Excelsior’s Najhada Seymoure was fifth with 45.57m and Immaculate Conception’s Maja Henry was 10th with 39.26m.

Brittannia Johnson was also a big winner as she became the third Jamaican to win the shot put, after Nadia Alexander of St Hugh’s in 2004 and Danielle Sloley of Immaculate Conception in 2019.

Johnson led from the start when she threw 13.99m in the second round as Rochele Solmon of Edwin Allen finished third with 13.57m and Juliet Smith of Immaculate Conception fourth with 13.00m.

Dawkins performed up to expectation as she tied the fourth best jump ever, with former Edwin Allen jumper Ackelia Smith who won in 2019.

She jumped 13.02m twice, in the second and third rounds as Jade-Ann Smith of Excelsior High was 12th with 11.26m while Petersfield High’s Tawani Murrat was 15th with 10.99m.

Wolmer’s Shanniqua Williams was second in the high jump with 1.70m, same heights as third-placed Deijanae Bruce of Edwin Allen while 14 year-old Rhodes Hall’s Aaliyah Willary was fourth with 1.68m, followed by Malaika Cunningham of Wolmers and Carifta Games Under 20 champion Torian Caven of Vere Technical, both with 1.65m.

Mt Alvernia High’s Aaliyah Foster was third in the long jump with 5.78m (-0.1m/s) and Richelle Stanley of St Elizabeth Technical was fourth with 5.71 (0.5m/s).