KINGSTON, Jamaica —  Twenty-two Jamaicans are set to compete in individual events at this weekend’s NCAA Division 1 and Division 2 Indoor championships that will signal the official end of the college indoor track and field season.

Seventeen athletes will compete in the Division 1 Indoor championships at the Randal Tyson Track Center at the University of Arkansas, March 13-14, while another five will be at the Division 2 Championships at Virginia Beach, over the same two days.

NCAA leading women’s triple jumper Shantae Foreman of Clemson and number two- ranked men’s shot putter Kobe Lawrence of the University of Oregon, leads the Jamaicans at Arkansas.

Foreman is coming off a third straight win at the ACC Conference two weeks ago, and will go up against Rhianna Phipps of the University of Nebraska.

Lawrence has improved on his University of Oregon program men’s shot put record on at least two occasions this past season and goes into the championships with a best of 20.16m, but is coming off a disappointing sixth place in the Big Ten Conference championships.

Shenese Walker of Florida State University, the ACC 60m/200m double winner, is the only Jamaican in the women’s 60m, while Gabrielle Mathews of the University of Florida and Carleta Bernard of the University of Texas are down for the 200m.

The University of Georgia pair of Dejanea Oakley and Shaquena Foote are running the women’s 400m with the latter hoping to make amends for her disqualification at the South-eastern Conference championships.

Three Jamaicans will line up in the women’s 60m hurdles- Clemson’s Oneka Wilson,who became the first woman to win four straight ACC titles;  Danae Nembhard of Auburn and Big 12 champion Tonie-Ann Forbes of Texas Tech.

Machaeda Linton of Texas A&M University will contest the women’s long jump.

The Arkansas pair of Rivaldo Marshall and Tyrice Taylor will vie for honours in the men’s 800m, while two more ‘Razorbacks’, Jerome Campbell, Vashaun Vascianna and Demario Prince of Baylor University, will contest the men’s 60m hurdles.

In Division 2, Onieka Brissett of Texas A&M University-Kingsville qualified for both the 200m and 400m with Patreece Clarke of New Mexico Highlands is in to the women’s 60m hurdles.

Brandon Harris of Lincoln University in Missouri will contest the men’s 60m hurdles, and his teammate Malik Drummond is set for the men’s triple jump, while Lansford Cunningham of Tusculum University is ranked number three in the men’s long jump.