The Mico University created school history on Saturday’s final day of the 129th Penn Relays Carnival at Franklin Field after winning their first-ever College Championships of America titles.

Mico’s Rasheed Foster took the College Men’s 100m championship, while their men’s 4x100m team were also winners.

Foster, the Inter-Collegiate Men’s 100m champion in Jamaica earlier this month, became the fifth local-based athlete to win the 100m championships.

There was also a win for GC Foster College’s Tri-Tania Lowe in the Women’s Long jump championships. Clemson University’s Jamaican trio of Shantae Foreman, Oneka Wilson and JodyAnn Dixon were also winners.

Foster, the former Charlemont High runner, clocked 10.46 seconds (0.3m/s) to take the men’s 100m. He joins University of Technology former runners Nesta Carter (2007), Kimmari Roach (2010), Jacques Harvey (2012) and Adolphus Nevers (2014) as local-based athletes who have won the event.

North America-based Donovan Powell of Texas Christian University in 1994; Lerone Clarke of Lincoln (Missouri) and Raheem Chambers of Auburn in 2018 are the other Jamaicans who won the event.

Meanwhile, the Mico University team of Rimano Thomas, Foster, Jevaughnie Davis and Martino Williams won the College Men’s 4x100m in 40.89 seconds.

GC Foster College were fourth in both the College Men’s 4x100m and 4x200m Championship of America relays. Both those events were won by the University of South Florida team that included former Excelsior High runner Alexavier Monfries.

Foreman, who was third last year, won the College Women’s Triple Jump Championship with 12.73m (0.7m/s), while Wilson was victorious in the 100m Hurdles with a season’s best 12.94 (-0.1m/s) and Dixon claimed the 400m Hurdles with 56.86.

Lowe, a native of Anguilla, won the College Women’s Long Jump Championship with a wind-aided 6.30m (2.3m/s).

— Paul A Reid