Card, Edwards win Penn Awards
New Penn Relays College Men’s 100m record holder Gary Card of the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech) and High School Boys’ triple jump record holder Michael Andre Edwards of Jamaica College were named athletes of the meet at the Penn Relays Carnival at Franklin Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Card, who ran a personal best 10.03 seconds (1.8m/s) in Friday’s semi-final before winning on Saturday with 10.34 seconds (-1.4m/s) in cold and rain, was named Male College Athlete of the Meet.
The 18-year-old, who beat Great Britain’s Louie Hinchliffe, the NCAA 100m champion and Penn Relays winner, broke the record (10.10 seconds) set by American Leroy Burrell in 1990.
The former Wolmer’s Boys’ representative lowered his previous best 10.06 seconds set at the Inter-secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA)/GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) in March.
He was also part of the UTech team that placed second in the College Men’s 4x100m Championships of the Americas in 40.25 seconds, behind Ohio State, who clocked 39.56 seconds.
GC Foster College were fifth in 40.64 seconds.
Edwards, who broke the High School Boys’ triple jump record with a personal best 16.29m (0.8m/s), bettering the 16.01m set by another Jamaica College athlete Obrien Wasome, was named High School Male Athlete of the Meet.
Edwards, who beat US indoor record holder Miles Nesmith of Memphis Central High, improved on his previous best 16.25m set while winning the Boys’ Class One event at Champs.
Three other Jamaican athletes won their respective college events, while World Athletics Indoor finalists Jordan Scott and Romaine Beckford won the Olympic Development triple and high jump events, respectively.
Shantae Foreman of Clemson University retained her College Women’s triple jump title with 13.21m (1.4m/s) in her first outdoor competition of the season.
Kai Chang of The University of the West Indies, Mona, won the College Men’s discus throw with 59.26m.
Daneille Noble of Clemson won the College Women’s high jump with 1.75m.
Malaika Cunningham of Villanova was second in the College Women’s high jump with 1.70m, while Tri-Tania Lowe of GC Foster College was also second in the College Women’s long jump with 6.27m (0.0m/s).
Briana Campbell of Clemson was third in the College Women’s 100m hurdles Championships of the Americas in 13.50 seconds (-0.5m/s); Brandon Pottinger of Clemson was fourth in the College Men’s high jump with 2.11m; and Janine Lindsay of UWI Mona was fourth in the College Women’s discus with 48.90m.
Scott, who won silver at the World Indoor Championships, took the Olympic Development Men’s triple jump with 17.23m (-0.4m/s), while Chevaughn Parkinson placed fifth with 15.01m (0.5m/s).
Beckford cleared 2.26m to win the Olympic Development Men’s high jump in his first outdoor competition of the season.

