JAMAICA'S WORLD Junior sprint relay gold medallist Simone Facey won three gold medals while Keisha Brown and Lorain McKenzie were double winners at last weekend's National Junior Collegiate Athletics Association (NJCAA) held at Kansas State University-Ahearn Field House in Manhattan, Kansas.
Facey, who anchored Jamaica's sprint relay team to gold at the 2002 World Junior Championships in Kingston, won the sprint double and helped Barton to gold in the 4x400m.
McKenzie, a former Jamaica junior representative, captured the 800m and 1500m titles while Brown, a Carifta Games silver medallist, secured gold in the 60m hurdles and 4x400m.
An individual 100m silver medallist at the same World Junior Championships, Facey first captured the 60m dash in 7.44 for Barton County College. Facey led home an all-Jamaican sweep as her Barton teammates Tracy Ann Rowe was second in 7.52 and Keisha Brown third in 7.62.
THE AFTERNOON
Later in the afternoon, Facey returned to clock 24.04 seconds to capture the women's 200m, again beating Rowe, who finished second in 24.53 seconds. New Mexico's Kashaine Page, formerly of St. Jago was seventh in 25.69.
Led off by Facey, Barton, which had Brown on third leg and Rowe on anchor, won the women's 4x400m event in 3: 51.74 seconds ahead of Southwestern Christian (3:53.26).
In the women's 60m hurdles, Brown came out the winner. She won the event in 8.64 seconds, beating fellow Jamaicans Kashain Page of New Mexico (8.78) and Barton's Tracy Ann Rowe (8.80).
Essex County's McKenzie, formerly of Edwin Allen, won the women's 800m in 2:18.83 seconds. McKenzie left in her wake Butler Community's Diane Nukuri (2: 19.52) and her Essex teammate, Celia Whyte, formerly of Holmwood (2:21.95).
McKenzie returned to win the 1000m in 3:02.99 seconds ahead of Alyson Siegrist of Butler Community College (3: 03.45). Whyte was ninth in 3:20.16.
Barton's female team won the Championships with 147 points, 14 ahead of Essex County College (133) and Butler Community College (93) while the men's title also went to Barton with 136.5 points.
