Clarendon College’s Marla Kay Lampart fell short of the meet record but made up for her disappointment at the 2025 Inter-secondary Schools Sports Association/GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) by winning the Girls’ Class 1 shot put at the National Stadium yesterday.

Lampart threw 14.07m to win by more than a metre, missing the meet record of 15.33m set by Camperdown High’s Britannia Johnson three years ago.

“I really wanted to do well,” Lampart told the Sunday Observer.

Later in 2025, Lampart broke the Jamaican Under-20 record with a throw of 17.44m at the Carifta Games in Port of Spain, Trinidad. She said anxiety affected her performance at Champs.

“I was in great form last year and I knew I could do well, but I was nervous and didn’t perform as I had hoped,” she said after finishing fifth with 12.51m.

She ended her final Champs with two medals after placing third in the Class 1 discus and said she is looking forward to the next level after accepting a scholarship to the University of Georgia, where she plans to study osteopathy.

Lampart, who threw a season’s best 14.52m to win at Central Champs in mid-February, said the university’s academic standards were a key factor in her decision.