#NationalTrials: Ackelia Smith wins second national long jump title
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Ackelia Smith won her second national women’s long jump title after her lone legal mark, 6.53m (0.9m/s) on Thursday’s opening day of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) National Championships at the National Stadium.
Smith, a junior at the University of Texas, is one centimetre off the automatic qualifying mark of 6.86m with 6.85 done in the indoor season. She had won her first title in 2022 and won the long/triple jump double at the NCAA Championships last month.
Chanice Porter retained her second place finish from last year with 6.49m (1.1m/s), while last year’s champion Tissanna Hickling was third with 6.36m (1.8m/s), beating Velecia Williams -6.36m (0/7m/s) on count back with a better second best jump.
— Paul A Reid
