By BRENT STUBBS

Chief Sports Editor

bstubbs@tribunemedia.net

GRAND Bahamian Lamarr Williams pulled off a double dose of men’s sprint victories at the National Chistian College Athletic Assocation (NCCAA) Indoor Championships to highlight a list of Bahamians, including Olympians Devynne Charlton, Denisha Cartwright and Antoine Andrews, competing at various meets around the United States over the weekend.

Williams, representing Bethel University, won the 60 metres at the championships at the Doden Fieldhouse in Cedarville, Ohio, winning the event in 6.84 seconds and he came through with the fastest qualifying time of 6.81 in the preliminaries. 

He came back and earned the title in the 200m in 22.29 for All-American honours in both events. 

Just last month, Williams lowered the Pilots’ school record in the 60m with his time of 6.76 at the Bob Eubanks Open at the Grand Vallet State University in Allendale, Michigan, to qualify for the Nationals.

The previous record of 6.80 was held by recent Al Beutler Hall of Fame inductee Tommy Grant, who set the record on December 4, 2015 at the University of Notre Dame’s Blue and Gold Invite. 

Williams, a native of Moore’s Island who came under the tutelage of coach Anthony Williams in Abaco and was a 2023 graduate of Sunland Baptist Academy in Grand Bahama, was named the Track Athlete of the NCCAA Indoor Championships. 

The former basketball player is the son of Miranda Davis-Miller and Everette Williams.

Millrose Games

Devynne Charlton inked her name on another Bahamian national record in the women’s 55m en-route to the final, but she ended up fourth in the race as her American training partner Masai Russell out-shined the field that included fellow Bahamian Denisha Cartwright at the 117th Millrose Games in New York.

While Charlton clocked 7.28 for her national record, Cartwright came in fifth in 7.29. Russell took the tape in an American national record and world leading time of 7.22. Nugent got second in a Jamaican national record in 7.26 with Stark third in 7.28. 

And in the marquee BBR Partners women’s 60m hurdles,  Russell, the Olympic champion from Paris, France last year, remain undefeated this year with her new world leading time of 7.76 in the 60m hurdles to surpass Cartwright’s previous mark of 7.89

Stark was second in 7.82 with Charlton taking third in her season’s best of 7.83 and Charlton ended up in fourth in 7.84. 

American Tyler Cox was third in 8.21 and Camylin Blake was sixth in her personal best of 8.63. Jamaica’s Ackera Nugent rounded the field as she false started. 

New Mexico Collegiate Classic

Texas Tech’s Antoine Andrews clinched the victory in his specialty in the women’s 60m hurdles and showed his versatility as a sprinter in the men’s 60m at the New Mexico Collegiate Classic at the ABQ Convention Center. 

Andrews, coming off his Olympic debut with a semifinal appearance in Paris, breezed through the men’s hurdles to win in 7.62 ahead of Louisiana State University’s Matthew Sophia, who was second in 7.69.

And in the 60m, Andrews turned in the seventh fastest time of 6.69 in the preliminaries and the best in the semifinals in 6.66. 

However, he didn’t contest the final. He had the seventh fastest time of 6.69 in the preliminaries.

Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational

Minnesota State senior Robynn Rolle-Curry picked up fifth place finish in the women’s 400 in 56.05 and she also placed eighth in the 200m in 24.59 at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational.