Brianna Lyston of Louisiana State University (LSU) ran a stunning personal best 7.07 seconds to win the women’s 60m dash on Saturday’s second day of the Razorback Invitational held at the Randal Tyson indoor complex in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

After running 7.14 seconds earlier in qualifying, the 19-year-old Jamaican returned to tie the LSU record set by Aleia Hobbs. It was the fastest run in the US so far this year, number three in the world and fourth best ever in NCAA history.

The former Hydel High standout smashed her previous best of 7.26 seconds set at the same track last year and puts her 11th best all time for a Jamaican woman over the distance.

On Friday’s opening day, Romaine Beckford set a new indoor personal best 2.27m to win the men’s high jump, beating his previous best of 2.26m.

He equalled his outdoor best but fell short when he tried to clear the Olympic Games qualifying height of 2.33m.

Former Rusea’s High athlete Nia Robinson came within a centimetre of equaling the University of Arkansas women’s long jump record when she had an indoor personal best 6.56m for third place. Robinson was just off the school record 6.57m set in 2018 by Taliyah Brooks and is tied for third in the NCAA.

Nikaoli Williams of the University of Oklahoma was second in the men’s long jump with 7.84m.

Also on Friday, Daniel Cope of Clemson University threw a personal best and new Jamaican indoors record 22.75m to finish second in the men’s weight throw at the Clemson Bob Pollack Invitational in South Carolina on Friday. The new mark beats the 22.28m he threw at the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Indoors in 2022 and also extends his Clemson University record. In 2022, the former Petersfield High and Cloud County standout, broke the previous Jamaican record 21.60m set in 2016 by Cannigia Raynor, then of the University of Central Missouri at the Mule Relays. His mark also ranks him number four in the NCAA.

Marie Forbes, also of Clemson, was second in the women’s weight throw with 21.42m.

World Championships 4x400m relay medallist D’Andre Anderson of Clemson ran a personal best 46.67 seconds in the men’s 400m, eighth best all-time at Clemson.

Tahj Hamm, of Clemson, also ran an indoor personal best 47.22 seconds

Former Cornwall College athlete Lansford Cunningham, of Division 2 school Tusculom, ran a personal best 6.98 seconds to win his men’s 60m first round heat. He did not show for the semi-finals as he was involved in the long jump where he equalled his personal best 6.86m for fifth overall.

-Paul A Reid