Miramar Invitational

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Miramar City Manager, Dr Roy Virgin stated, “We are thrilled to be hosting this world class event again In 2021 we watched as Sha ‘Carri Richardson broke the U20 world record with a stunning 10 72 seconds to win the 100m This performance moved her to the 6th on the world all-time list

“We are proud that the City of Miramar is the track and field destination in South Florida boasting a FTX Mondo Olympic style track at Ansin Sports Complex which makes it the perfect venue to host international athletic meets ”

The event is sponsored by the Ansin Foundation and Hazen and Sawyer Gates at the Ansin Sports Complex, located at 10801 Miramar Boulevard, Miramar, FL 33025 will open at 8:00 a m The event will be live streamed starting at 1 p m

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“I am really lost for words, God is good and he has been with us all along and even though we never believed we could have, things just kind of went our way and I asked the girls to just dig a little deeper, perform a little better,” said the man who this season also assumed responsibility for the Calabar High School track program

“We got some great performances that you would have seen from some of our athletes We started in 2010 and now 2023, 13 years later, yeah, God is good ”

Hydel received a gift entering the last race, the 4x400m relays, after Edwin Allen who had romped home to victory in the Sprint Medley Relays, was disqualified, thus losing out on 12 massive points

An Edwin Allen athlete had infringed on the inside lane on the curve and thus ran afoul of the rules, hence the disqualification

This scenario left Hydel four points ahead, instead of eight points behind, and Bennett was quick to pounce and ensure that his charges did not throw away the gift

“You don’t need to push for the win, but don’t come less than third We did our math so don’t come less than third because where it was at sometimes when you try to push for the ultimate sometimes you lose all, so it was just some safe runs and our captain [Oneika McAnnuff] was supposed to lead that charge,”

Bennett explained

“She has been such a wonderful young lady from first form she came to us and we just asked them to be safe based on how the championships have been going, we got disqualified from two races, two relays in the week, this is just God’s work ”

The head coach also dedicated the historic win to his mother and the school’s founder

“Hyacinth Bennett, our founder, she’s always wanted this and she’s unable to be with us physically here, she’s not as well as she would like to be, this one is for Hyacinth Bennett, I really just want to dedicate this one to her ”

In the final girls’ event, Edwin Allen won comfortably but Hydel did what was necessary by finishing second with McAnnuff running a brilliant leg to get her school into a comfort zone from well off the pace

There was one record on the day and it went to Britannia Johnson of Camperdown High School who heaved the shot put to a new record 15 33m in Class One She broke the previous record of 14.93m set by Fiona Richards of Edwin Allen High School back in 2018

JC won the 4x400m relays Open in 3:09 31 minutes ahead of Edwin Allen and KC, but KC won the Sprint Medley Open in 3:26 98 minutes ahead of JC and Titchfield High

The Class Three 4x100m relays was won by St Jago, Class Two by Calabar and Class One by KC in 40 01 seconds

Demario Prince of St Jago won the Class One 110m hurdles in 13 42 seconds ahead of teammate Andre Harris in 13 79 seconds and JC’s Daniel Beckford in 13 83 seconds

Calabar’s Shaquane Gordon won the Class Two in 13 42 seconds ahead of the KC pair of Kahiem Carby (13 59) and Daniel Clarke (13 80)

Mount Alvernia High School won yhe Class Four 4x100m relays, Wolmer’s won Class Three, and Hydel won Classes Two and One

Alexas James of Petersfield High won the Cass One 100m hurdles in 13 39 seconds (3 1mps) ahead of Asharria Ulett of St Catherine in 13 59 seconds and Toni-Ann Forbes of Edwin Allen in 13 61 seconds

Jody-Ann Daley of Hydel won Class Two, Tiana Marshall of Wolmer’s won Class Three 80m hurdles and teammate Jadea Morris won Class Four 70m hurdles gold

Malique Smithband of JC won the Class One 200m gold in 20 90 (-2 7mps), KC finished first and second in Class Two with Tahj-Marques White and Nyrone Wade, respectively, while Shaun Lewis of STETHS won Class Three Alana Reid completed the sprint double gold for Hydel when she won Class One 200m in 23 08 seconds (-2 0mps), teammate Shemonique Hazle won Class Two, Wolmer’s Natrece East who was second in the Class Three 100m, stepped up to win gold in the 200m, while Kayla Johnson of Immaculate completed the sprint double in Class Four

The boys’ Class One 800 m was won by Kemario Bygrave of JC in 1:51 84 minutes, Yoshane Bowen of Maggotty won Class Two, and teammate Jayden Brown won Class Three On the girls’ side, Amoya Jameison of Edwin Allen won the Class One 800m gold, teammate Monique Stewart won the Class Two, and ST Jago’s Kededra Coombs won Class Three