KINGSTON, Jamaica — Competing in Jamaica for the first time since she broke the national record on June 8th at the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Oregon, Nickisha Pryce easily qualified for Sunday’s final of the women’s 400m after running 49.63 seconds in the semi-finals on Saturday’s penultimate day of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) National Championships at the National Stadium.

Pryce, who also set the NCAA record when she ran 48.89 seconds, was the only Jamaican under 50.00 seconds on Saturday as Barbados’ Sada Williams also ran a season’s best 49.80 seconds.

Junelle Bromfield ran a lifetime best 50.74 seconds to get the Olympic qualifying standard while her former STETHS teammate Stacey-Ann Williams ran 50.93 seconds.

The veteran Stephenie-Ann McPherson ran 51.10 seconds, her fastest time in two years; Ashley Williams ran 51.16 seconds, her best this season; Charokee Young ran 51.58 seconds; and Shaquena Foote ran 51.62 seconds to also make it to the final.
-Paul A Reid