Jereem was brilliant on Saturday.
https://www.guardian.co.tt/sports/richards-warren-on-top-of-their-game-6.2.1320106.abbc226095T&T's Jereem Richards ran a season's best 20.26 seconds to sprint to victory in the men's 200 metres at the USATF Grand Prix, the Oregon Relays, in Eugene, Oregon in the United States on Saturday.
The 2018 Commonwealth 200m champion comfortably beat to the line, American Josephus Lyles (20.46) and Jamaica's Christopher Taylor (20.73).
A season's best from Portious Warren saw her emerge champion of the women's shot put at the Louisiana State University (LSU) Alumni Gold at the LSU Bernie Moore Stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
The local field specialist threw a distance of 18.12 metres to top the event which had two other T&T athletes compete including University of Alabama's Cherisse Murray and Texas A&M University's (TAMU) Tyra Gittens.
Murray heaved an outdoor season-best 16.50m but the Crimson Tide senior unfortunately missed out on a top-three finish, placing fourth.
TAMU redshirt junior and NCAA pentathlon champion Gittens placed 12th with her best mark being 13.26m. she also competed in the 110m hurdles and crossed fourth with a 13.26-clocking.
Unattached runner Asa Guevara had success in the men's 400m Olympic development race, placing second in a time of 46.09 behind Tiger Olympians' Vernon Norwood (45.17). In third place was Phillip Osei (Athletics Canada) with 46.17.
Tamia Badal of Colorado competed in the two women's hurdle events. The freshman placed 18th in the 100m hurdles with 14.10 (2.3 wind) and in the 400m hurdles, she finished 13th (1:02.03).
LSU senior Akanni Hislop also competed in the men's 200m and placed 10th with 21.05 (1.8w).
In Miami, Florida, Kai Selvon faced the starter in the women's 100m at the TRUFit Athletics Sprint Classic, Tropical Park Track.
The Puma MVP International sprinter advanced with the sixth-fastest qualifying time of 11.52 from the preliminaries, placing second in heat one. Selvon was slower in the final and placed seventh with 11.65 (1.3) in the dash.
Andre Marcano was a 10th-place finisher in the men's version of the race. The Central Park Track Club sprinter clocked 10.37.
Arkansas-Pine Bluff sophomore Safiya John had a busy schedule at the John McDonnell Invitational in Fayetteville, Arkansas, competing in four events but did not reach the podium in any.
On the track, she raced in the women's 200m and got to the line in 25.38 to place 26th and then in the 100m hurdles she was sixth with 13.56 (2.8w).
She also competed in two jump events, John placed ninth in the long jump with a 5.73m-leap and 10th in the triple jump with 11.60m.
Clement Campbell Jr, another Arkansas-Pine Bluff freshman, competed in three events and he too did not place among the top three in any. He was 20th overall in the men's 200m time final with a time of 22.19, seventh (7.43m) in the long jump and his team was disqualified in the 4x400m relay.
Franklyn Stanislaus placed eighth in the men's decathlon, tallying 6,347 points over the two-day meet.
The Arkansas-Pine Bluff sophomore won the 100 with 10.81 (2.7), high jump (1.92m) and 400m (49.38); was third in the long jump with 6.94m (2.2w); fourth in the 110m hurdles (15.03); seventh in the shot put (11.95m), eighth in both the discus (33.19), pole vault (3.30m) and 1,500m (5:47.49) and placed ninth in the javelin (33.32m).
Joanna Rogers was the other Arkansas-Pine Bluff student/athlete who competed at the meet and the freshman placed 19th in the women's 800 with 2:21.77.
On Friday, at the Wolfie Invitational in Stony Brook, New York, Fairleigh Dickinson sophomore Ako Hislop sprinted to second place in the men's 100m dash with 11.07.
Minnesota freshman Kion Benjamin and Purdue's Naomi Campbell, another first-year student, were aiming to complete their respective sprint doubles at the Fighting Illini Big Ten Relays but it did not pan as they had hoped.
Benjamin sprinted to silver in the men's 100m, placing second with 10.47 (1.7w) and missed out on a podium finish after crossing fourth in the 200m with 20.92 (2.8w)
Campbell placed ninth in the women's 100m with 11.98 (1.5) and tenth in the 200m with 24.62 (3.3) in the respective timed finals. She did, however, manage to help her team to a bronze in the 4x100m relays (45.48).
On Thursday, Jackson State freshman Adel Coltrust sprinted to four medals at the I-20 Twilight in Clinton, Mississippi.
He won gold in the men's 100m winning in 10.53 (-0.9) and copped silver in the 200m with a time of 21.35 (0.2). His team was also second in the 4x100m (41.18) and third in the 4x400m (3:12.41).