Lamara Distin and Wayne Pinnock completed indoor/outdoor jump doubles at last week’s NCAA Division 1 Championships in Eugene, Oregon.

Distin gave Texas A&M University 10 points with an expected win in the high jump on Saturday.

A day earlier, Pinnock capped his first season for collegiate competition with a triumph in the long jump and Navasky Anderson set a national record – 1 minute 45.02 seconds – in the 800m.

Distin, a 2018 World Under 20 finalist, polished off a nearly flawless campaign by overcoming the jumper who was forced to accept the silver medal in 2021, Rachel Glenn, with a clean card up to and including the winning height, 1.95m. Glenn, representing South Carolina was third with a clearance at 1.86m as Abigail Kwarteng of Middle Tennessee State climbed over 1.92m.

Distin, who starred at home for the Ruseas School, Vere Technical and Hydel High, then tried her luck at 2.00m, three centimetres above her national record of 1.97m. In dry conditions, she might have made it.

In March, she dominated her event at the NCAA Indoor Championships, where Pinnock, holder of the 2018 World Under 20 bronze medal, put an exclamation point on his first college campaign. In Eugene, his old Kingston College teammate, the Olympian Carey McLeod took an early lead with a leap measured at 7.85 metres in the first round. Pinnock responded with a mark of 7.96 in the next round and aced the competition in the last round by landing at 8.00 metres.

Like Pinnock, McLeod improved in round 6, seeking a repeat of their NCAA Indoor 1-2 finish for Tennessee but his effort, 7.90 metres, left him in the fourth position.

Anderson raced confidently in the 800m final, easing past the World Championship qualifying time of 1.45.20 with splits of 51.4 and 53.6. In the end, the tall Mississippi State Jamaican trailed only Moroccan Moad Zahafi of Texas Tech who won easily in 1 minute 44.49 seconds.

2021 NCAA Indoor 60m champion Kemba Nelson lost on the line to fast starting St Lucian Julien Alfred in the 100m final, with both getting the same time, 11.02 seconds. In the heats, when the conditions were better, Alfred and Nelson clocked 10.90 and 10.97, a personal best for the latter.

7th in her first NCAA 100m final, the team which includes Kevona Davis, and Alfred helped the University of Texas outrun a big second leg by Nelson for the University of Oregon. Texas won in 42.42 seconds, a shade outside the college leading time of 42.38 they did in the heats. Davis came back to place fifth in the 200 final.

Dsitin’s Texas A&M colleague Charokee Young splashed her way to second in the women’s 400 metres in 50.65 seconds, an upgrade over her 2021 fifth-place result. Davis’ teammate Stacy-Ann Williams moved up one place to fifth in the same final.

Seeking a 10th-anniversary repeat of Chad Wright’s 2012 groundbreaking discus win, Ralford Mullings gave Arizona State third place.