INDIANAPOLIS — Team USATF will send a strong squad to the 2022 NACAC Open Championships on August 19-21 at the Grand Bahama Sport Complex in Freeport, Bahamas, featuring more than 40 athletes who wore the red, white, and blue at the recent World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon. Top athletes from the North America, Central America, and Caribbean region will compete for medals, prize money, and World Athletics ranking points. Athletes who win their event could be considered as having met the World Athletics qualifying standard for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
Jamaica's Shericka Jackson is a formidable opponent in the women's dash, coming off a gold in the 200m and silver in the 100m at the World Championships. She has a PB of 10.73 in the 100m and 21.45 in the 200m, the second fastest time ever by a woman. Celera Barnes (Oxnard, CA/USATF Southern California) was sixth at the Toyota USATF Championships and has a best of 10.94 that she set in the semifinal of that meet. Barnes was also a semifinalist for USC at the NCAA Championships. Javianne Oliver (Clermont, FL/USATF Florida) was seventh at the USATF meet and set her lifetime best of 10.95 in the semis there. Oliver was an Olympic semifinalist at Tokyo and earned silver on the U.S. 4x100m relay.
The 2019 World Championships silver medalist at Doha, Brittany Brown (Fort Worth, TX/USATF Iowa) has a 21.99 lifetime best and claims a 100m PB of 10.99 from this season. She was fifth at the USATF Championships, one spot in front of A'Keyla Mitchell (Fayetteville, AR/USATF Arkansas). Mitchell has had a breakthrough year, dropping her PB by more than a half second to 22.39 in the USATF final. Their top challenger will likely be Jamaica's Natalliah Whyte, who has a lifetime best of 22.55 and was fourth at the Commonwealth Games. Tynia Gaither of the Bahamas is also a threat with local support and has two Olympic Games and two World Championships on her resumé. Gaither lowered her PB to 22.41 in the semis at the World Championships in Eugene.
Favored to sweep the top two steps on the podium, Ajee' Wilson (Philadelphia, PA/USATF Mid-Atlantic) and Allie Wilson (Atlanta, GA/USATF Georgia) are the two fastest entrants. Ajee' Wilson won the World Indoor Championships gold in March and was eighth at the World Outdoor Championships. She has a PB of 1:55.61 and has clocked 1:57.23 this season. Allie Wilson just missed a berth on the World Championships squad after placing fourth at the Toyota USATF Championships, and she has a best of 1:58.18. Former British international Adelle Tracey now represents Jamaica and was a semifinalist in the 800m and 1,500m at the World Championships, where she dropped her PB to 1:59.20.
Americans also occupy the top two spots on the entry list here, led by Heather MacLean (Brighton, MA/USATF New England), who has a 3:58.89 PB from last week's Monaco Diamond League meet where she placed second. MacLean, fifth at the Toyota USATF Championships, was a semifinalist at the Tokyo Games and finished seventh at the World Indoor Championships in March. Helen Schlachtenhaufen (Cambridge, MA/USATF New England) placed sixth at the Toyota USATF Championships and brings a PB of 4:01.09 from 2021 into her debut at the international championship level. A trio of Canadians led by Regan Yee, who is best known as a steeplechaser with World and Olympic experience, will provide the best competition for the U.S. duo.
Gabbi Jennings (Greenville, SC/USATF South Carolina) chopped more than 13 seconds off her pre-2022 lifetime best with a 9:25.05 to place fourth at the Toyota USATF Championships and that time puts her atop the entry list by two seconds over the aforementioned Regan Yee of Canada. Yee has a best of 9:27.54 from 2021 and ran in the heats at the World Championships and at Tokyo last summer. USATF fifth-place finisher Katie Rainsberger (Colorado Springs, CO/USATF Colorado) took a couple seconds off her lifetime best with a 9:29.77 and was the 2021 NCAA bronze medalist for Washington. The third member of the U.S. team is Carmen Graves (Ocean City, NJ/USATF New Jersey), who was seventh at the Toyota USATF Championships and sports a PB of 9:37.73.
A World Championships team member in the 10,000m, Natosha Rogers (Denver, CO/USATF Michigan) drops down in distance and has a 15:04.95 PB to go with her fifth-place finish at the USATF Championships. Rogers will team up with Fiona O'Keeffe (Chapel Hill, NC/USATF North Carolina), the sixth-place finisher at the USATF meet. O'Keeffe clocked a PB 15:05.56 in June at Portland to clip more than 25 seconds off her lifetime best. Elanor Fulton (Portland, OR/USATF Oregon) rounds out the 5,000m trio having clocked a personal best of 15:19.19 just a month ago at Occidental College. Canadian champion Gracelyn Larkin was seventh at the NCAA outdoor meet for New Mexico and took eighth at the NCAA Indoors, bringing a best of 15:29.93 into the NACAC meet.
On paper, Stephanie Bruce (Flagstaff, AZ/USATF Arizona) and Emily Lipari (San Diego, CA/USATF San Diego-Imperial) are head and shoulders above the rest of the field with personal bests more than a minute faster than the nearest challenger. Bruce, a two-time World Cross Country Championships team member, was seventh at the USATF 10,000m Championships and has a PB of 31:24.47, while Lipari was eighth and boasts a lifetime best of 31:24.82. Lipari won the USATF Road Mile title in April and has 4:05 1,500m speed. Puerto Rico's Beverly Ramos was 20th in the marathon at the World Championships and holds her nation's record in the 10,000m at 32:36.03.
The second fastest American woman ever over the 20km distance at 1:31:42, Miranda Melville (Chula Vista, CA/USATF New York) leads a U.S. contingent that should sweep the podium spots. Two places behind her on the all-time performer list, Robyn Stevens (Vacaville, CA/USATF Pacific) was 24th at the World Championships and set her PB of 1:32:15 at Podebrady in April. American record holder Maria Michta-Coffey (Lake Grove, NY/USATF Long Island) was 22nd in the 35km walk at the World Championships and third in the USATF 20km and 35km championships. World Championships 35km 24th-place finisher Stephanie Casey (Portland, OR/USATF Oregon) rounds out the American quartet with a PB of 1:37:11.
One of the marquee races of the Championships features Alaysha Johnson (Fort Lauderdale, FL/USATF Florida) the USATF Championships runner-up who lowered her PB to 12.35 to move to sixth on the all-time U.S. performer list. Tonea Marshall (Weatherford, TX/USATF Southwestern) has a lifetime best of 12.46 and was fourth at the USATF Championships. They will be up against Devynne Charlton of the Bahamas, seventh at the World Championships and owner of a 12.46 PB as well as an NCAA silver for Purdue in 2018. Jamaica's Megan Tapper took bronze at Tokyo last summer and has run 12.52, while her teammate, Crystal Morrison, has clocked 12.69.
Commonwealth Games champion and Olympic fourth-place finisher Janieve Russell of Jamaica has run 53.08 and will be joined by countrywoman Shiann Salmon, who took silver at the Commonwealth Games and has a 53.82 PB. USATF Championships semifinalists Deonca Bookman (Coppell, TX/USATF Southwestern) and Cassandra Tate (Baton Rouge, LA/USATF Southern) will have a big task ahead of them to take down the Jamaican duo, but Tate was the 2015 World Championships bronze medalist and has a best of 54.01. Bookman recorded her 55.66 PB last year at the Olympic Trials.
Consistently the top American jumper since 2016, Vashti Cunningham (Las Vegas, NV/USATF Nevada) has a very good chance of breaking the NACAC meet record of 1.91m/6-3.25. Cunningham was the bronze medalist at the 2019 World Championships and placed sixth at Tokyo, and she has cleared 2.02m/6-7.5 in her career. South Carolina's Rachel Glenn (Long Beach, CA/USATF Southern California) was the 2021 NCAA champion and runner-up behind Cunningham at this year's USATF Championships. She has a lifetime best of 1.93m/6-4. Trinidad's Tyra Gittens is a familiar face for American jumpers after starring at Texas A&M and Texas, and she has gone over 1.95m/6-4.75. 2016 NCAA champion Kimberly Williamson of Jamaica set her lifetime best of 1.93m/6-4 in June.
Almost a foot better than their nearest competitors, the American duo of Alina McDonald (Pacolet, SC/USATF South Carolina) and Emily Grove (Vermillion, SD/USATF Dakotas) look to sweep the top two podium spots in Freeport. McDonald snagged the runner-up spot at the USATF Championships with a lifetime best 4.65m/15-3 clearance before declining her World Championships berth. Grove was fifth but has the higher PB at 4.75m/15-7. She was sixth at the 2012 World U20 Championships. Rachel Hyink of Canada has the next best entry mark at 4.40m/14-5.25.
Falling agonizingly short of World Championships bronze by one centimeter, NACAC meet record holder Quanesha Burks (Baton Rouge, LA/USATF Southern) will be set on gold. Burks had a season best 6.88m/22-7 to place fourth at the Worlds, and she sailed a windy 7.06m/23-2 to take the USATF title. After taking third at the USATF meet, Tiffany Flynn (Ellenwood, GA/USATF Georgia) placed 12th at the World Championships. Flynn was fourth at the World Indoor Championships in March and has a PB of 6.80m/22-3.75 from last summer's Olympic Trials. Former Florida standout Yanis David of Guadeloupe won the NCAA title in 2019 and has jumped 6.84m/22-5.25, while Canada's Christabel Nettey was fourth at the 2015 World Championships and has a best of 6.99m/22-11.25 in her career. Tyra Gittens of Trinidad will attempt a jumps double along with the high jump and has a career best of 6.96m/22-10.
American record holder Keturah Orji (Atlanta, GA/USATF Georgia) was sixth at the World Championships and seventh at the World Indoor Championships. Orji, who took seventh at Tokyo last summer, set her AR of 14.91m/48-11 last year and leads the entry list by more than six inches. Arianna Fisher (Columbia, MO/USATF Missouri Valley) bounded a lifetime best 13.63m/44-8.75 to finish fourth at the USATF Championships after taking 11th at the NCAA Championships. World Championships fifth-place finisher Thea LaFond of Dominica also placed fourth at the World Indoors and has gone 14.62m/47-11.75 indoors. Ana José Tima of the Dominican Republic is another major threat after taking 10th at the World Championships and recording a PB 14.52m/47-7.75 in the qualifying round.
Commonwealth Games champion Sarah Mitton was fourth at the World Championships and set a national record of 20.33m/66-8.5 to win the Canadian title in June. USATF third-place finisher Jessica Woodard (Mesa, AZ/USATF Arizona) raised her personal best to 19.40m/63-7.75 and then took eighth at the World Championships, while Olympic Trials champion Jessica Ramsey (Memphis, TN/USATF Tennessee) was sixth at this year's USATF meet and has thrown 20.12m/66-0.25. The NACAC meet record of 18.62m/61-1.25 is in grave danger.
A big lifetime best of 64.49m/211-7 elevated Laulauga Tausaga-Collins (El Cajon, CA/USATF San Diego-Imperial) to the runner-up spot at the USATF Championships and she followed up with a 12th-place effort at the World Championships. Olympian Rachel Dincoff (Tallahassee, FL/USATF Inland Northwest) took third at the USATF meet and has a best of 65.46m/214-9, set in Oklahoma in June. The Cuban duo of 2015 world champion and 2019 World Championships silver medalist Denia Caballero and 2017 World U18 champion Silinda Morales will provide the biggest test for the American pair. Caballero has a PB of 70.65m/231-9, but that was set seven years ago.
What can Brooke Andersen (Phoenix, AZ/USATF Inland Northwest) and Janee' Kassanavoid (Manhattan, KS/USATF Missouri Valley) do for an encore? Andersen won the World Championships gold and Kassanavoid took bronze, the first time in World Championships history the U.S won more than one medal in the event. Andersen leads the world list at 79.02m/259-3, with Kassanavoid second at 78.00m/255-11, both marks more than 10 feet better than the NACAC meet record. Canada's Jillian Weir is the top challenger to U.S. dominance coming off a fifth-place finish at the World Championships.
Creating one of the great moments of the World Championships with a silver medal effort on her final attempt, Kara Winger (Colorado Springs, CO/USATF New York) continues her farewell tour. Winger is the former American record holder and a veteran of four Olympic Games and six World Championships. She has a 2022 best of 64.26m/210-10, set in winning the USATF title. Ariana Ince (Chula Vista, CA/USATF San Diego-Imperial), the USATF runner-up, has repped the U.S. at the past three World Championships and has a best of 62.74m/205-10 this season. Ninth at the World Championships, Canada's Liz Gleadle has a best of 63.33m/207-9 this year and was fourth at the Commonwealth Games.
One of only two entrants who have cracked the 10.0 barrier with a legal wind, Kyree King (Ontario, CA/USATF Southern California) was sixth at the USATF Championships in a PB 9.96. Brandon Carnes (N. St. Paul, Minnesota/USATF Minnesota) lowered his lifetime best to 10.02 in May and was a semifinalist at the USATF Championships after taking third in the USATF Indoors 60m. Jamaica's Ackeem Blake has the fastest personal best, a 9.92 he ran at Nashville in June, and he was a semifinalist at the World Championships, and Antigua's Cejhae Greene was the 2019 Pan American Games bronze medalist.
Previously best known as the brother of world champion Noah Lyles, Josephus Lyles (Clermont, FL/USATF Florida) has earned his own share of the spotlight after placing fifth at the USATF Championships in 19.93, his first sub-20 clocking. He has also run a PB 10.03 in the 100m. Doubling up in the sprints, Kyree King (Ontario, CA/USATF Southern California) was seventh at the USATF Championships and cut his PB to 20.02 at the USATF NYC GP in June. The U.S. duo will go up against some very familiar foes in Andrew Hudson of Jamaica and Eric Harrison of Trinidad. Both men competed in the NCAA ranks, and Harrison represented the United States at the 2018 World U20 Championships, taking bronze in the 100m and 200m and gold on the U.S. 4x100m relay. Yancarlos Martinez of the Dominican Republic was the 2019 Pan American Games bronze medalist.
With Olympic and World Championships 4x400m relay gold to his credit, Bryce Deadmon (Arlington, TX/USATF Gulf) has also become a top open 400m runner, clocking his PB of 44.44 last year and going 44.54 to place sixth at this year's USATF Championships. Christopher Taylor of Jamaica was seventh at the World Championships and took sixth at Tokyo last summer in a PB of 44.79. Dwight St. Hillaire of Trinidad and the University of Kentucky picked up 4x400m relay gold at the Commonwealth Games after helping his country to a fifth-place World Championships finish.
Two times this season Jonah Koech (Falls Church, VA/USATF Potomac Valley) has bettered 1:45, topped by his PB 1:44.74 to finish as the USATF runner-up. He has the fastest entry time and is a fearless racer with a devastating finishing kick. Brannon Kidder (Seattle, WA/USATF Pacific Northwest) was eighth at the USATF Championships and set his lifetime best of 1:44.99 last summer. Puerto Rican national champion Ryan Sanchez has a best of 1:44.82 from 2019 and he took bronze that year at the Pan American Games.
Josh Thompson (Hillsboro, OR/USATF Oregon) and Eric Holt (Patterson, NY/USATF New York) finished 3-4 at the USATF Championships and Thompson went on to finish 12th at the World Championships. He also took 12th at the World Indoor Championships and has an indoor best of 3:34.77. Holt will be making his first international championship appearance, bringing a 3:35.80 PB that he set in Memphis at the end of July. Johnny Gregorek (Somerville, MA/USATF New England) was a World Championships semifinalist after placing sixth at the USATF Championships and has a best of 3:34.49 from 2021. World Championships semifinalist Charles Philibert-Thiboutot of Canada has the fastest lifetime best in the field at 3:34.23, which he ran in 2015, and he has raced extensively in the U.S. so is familiar with the Americans. His countrymen, Cameron Proceviat and Robert Heppenstall, are also experienced competitors who could come away with gold in the right circumstances.
American record holder and 2016 Olympic silver medalist Evan Jager (Portland, OR/USATF Oregon) has been on the comeback trail in the steeplechase and is nearing top form again after taking sixth at the World Championships. His AR of 8:00.45 was set seven years ago, but he has gone 8:17.29 this year, the fastest time in the field. Montana State's NCAA silver medalist Duncan Hamilton (Bozeman, MT/USATF Montana) just missed a World Championships trip after placing fourth at the USATF meet and he has run 8:18.88, while Anthony Rotich (Colorado Springs, CO/USATF Colorado) was fifth at the USATF Championships and won three NCAA titles for UTEP from 2013-15. Canada's Ryan Smeeton was fourth in the NCAA Championships for Oklahoma State with a PB of 8:20.06 and made the World Championships semifinal. His teammate, Jean-Simon Desgagnes, has a best of 8:22.95 and was on Canada's World Championships team.
The NACAC meet record of 13:57.53 could be threatened by an elite Team USATF trio led by Woody Kincaid (Portland, OR/USATF Oregon), the USATF Championships runner-up and a sub-13:00 performer at his best. Kincaid was an Olympic finalist last summer and clocked 12:58.10 in 2019. Emmanuel Bor (Colorado Springs, CO/USATF Colorado) was fifth in the USATF Championships and ran 13:00.48 indoors at Boston in February. One place behind him at the USATF meet was Sean McGorty (Beaverton, OR/USATF Oregon), the NCAA champion for Stanford in 2018. McGorty has a best of 13:06.45 from last year. Canada's Kieran Lumb, who competed collegiately for Washington this season, is the nearest challenger with a 13:23.26 PB.
If the event is contested, which is in doubt due to a paucity of entries from other nations, Sean McGorty (Beaverton, OR/USATF Oregon) and Dillon Maggard (Logan, UT/USATF Pacific Northwest) will be heavily favored as the only men who have run under 28 minutes. McGorty was 12th at the World Championships and sports a best of 27:18.15, while Maggard was fourth at the USATF Championships and has a PB of 27:37.26. He was also ninth in the 3,000m at the World Indoor Championships in March. Andrew Alexander of Canada ran for Notre Dame this season and went 28:24.42 at the Raleigh Relays in March.
Scoring a huge personal best with his 13.09 to take fourth at the USATF Championships, Jamal Britt (Coralville, IA/USATF Iowa) has had a breakout season that includes a win at the Bydgoszcz Continental Tour meet in Poland. 2019 Pan American Games silver medalist Freddie Crittenden (Phoenix, AZ/USATF Arizona) also set his personal best at the USATF meet with a 13.14 in fifth. Commonwealth Games gold medalist Rasheed Broadbell of Jamaica has the fastest time in the field at 13.08, and World Championships semifinalist Orlando Bennett gives the nation a potent 1-2 punch. Shane Brathwaite of Barbados was disqualified from the World Championships final but picked up silver at the Commonwealth Games behind Broadbell and has run 13.30 this season.
Fresh off a fifth-place finish at the World Championships, Khalifah Rosser (Fort Worth, TX/USATF Southwestern) has lowered his PB to 47.65 this season and may come close to the NACAC record of 48.18. To do that, he will have to stave off the holder of that record, Kyron McMaster of the British Virgin Islands, who was fourth at the Tokyo Games last summer with a PB 47.08. McMaster won Commonwealth Games gold but did not start the semifinal at the World Championships. USATF fourth-place finisher CJ Allen (Marietta, GA/USATF Georgia) set his lifetime best of 48.17 in that national championship race and then was second at the Stockholm Diamond League meet. One other man to watch is Jamaica's Kemar Mowatt, a semifinalist at the World Championships who has run 48.53 this year.
A pair of USATF national titles at 20km and 35km and a 20km PB of 1:22:44 at Podebrady have added up to a noteworthy season thus far for Nick Christie (El Cajon, CA/USATF San Diego-Imperial). Dan Nehnevaj (Beckley, WV/USATF North Carolina) was the runner-up at the USATF Championships, and he also set his PB of 1:23:10 at Podebrady, while Emmanuel Corvera (San Diego, CA/USATF New York) was third and Jordan Crawford (Douglasville, GA/USATF Georgia) fifth in the national championship race. Guatemala's José Ortíz is the favorite coming in with a 1:21:16 PB that he set in placing second at Dudince, and he was also 21st at the World Championships.
A pair of collegians will carry U.S. hopes, led by Auburn's Dontavious Hill (Auburn, AL/USATF Alabama), who has bronze medals from the USATF Championships as well as the NCAA indoor and outdoor meets this year and has cleared 2.23m/7-3.75. USATF fifth-place finisher Kyle Rollins (E. Rochester, NY/USATF Niagara) was the NCAA Division III indoor and outdoor champion for St. John Fisher. Rollins set his PB of 2.22m/7-3.25 at the USATF meet. The duo will have a very tall task to beat Canada's Django Lovett and Cuba's Luis Zayas, who tied for sixth at the World Championships. Lovett has gone over 2.33m/7-7.75 in his career, a height matched by 2019 Pan American Games gold medalist Zayas, and was eighth at Tokyo last year. Donald Thomas of the Bahamas, a 38-year-old who was the 2007 world champion, will have a vocal fanbase and has cleared 2.25m/7-4.5 this year.
World Championships team members Luke Winder (Oak Park, IL/USATF Illinois) and Andrew Irwin (Mount Ida, AR/USATF Arkansas) certainly have the meet record of 5.45m/17-10.5 firmly in their sights as it is one of the weakest records on the books. Winder claimed runner-up honors at the USATF Championships and raised his PB to 5.75m/18-10.25 in May, and Irwin tied for third at the USATF meet. He has a lifetime best of 5.88m/19-3.5 indoors and a season best of 5.60m/18-4.5. Baptiste Thiery of France/Martinique would love to break up the USA 1-2, and set his PB of 5.70m/18-8.25 in winning the French U23 national title.
Rayvon Grey (Baton Rouge, LA/USATF Southern) was a surprise winner at the USATF Championships, leaping a PB 8.19m/26-10.5 for the title. Fourth behind him was Will Williams (Jonesboro, AR/USATF Arkansas), who made the World Championships team based on his world ranking points. Williams has a PB of 8.19m/26-10.5, too, set in winning the 2018 NCAA indoor gold for Texas A&M. Local fans will give LaQuan Nairn a big boost, not that he will need it after giving the Bahamas Commonwealth Games gold two weeks ago. Nairn has jumped 8.22m/26-11.75, the best entry mark overall. Jamaica's Tajay Gayle was the 2019 world champion with a huge 8.69m/28-6.25, but has been battling injury and fouled out at this year's World Championships.
Chris Benard (Chula Vista, CA/USATF San Diego-Imperial) was third at the USATF Championships and has a wind-legal best of 17.01m/55-9.75 thus far in 2022. Leading the challengers is Jah-Nhai Perinchief of Bermuda, the Commonwealth Games bronze medalist who has gone 16.95m/55-7.5 this year.
NCAA outdoor champion Tripp Piperi (Austin, TX/USATF Texas Southern) was eighth at the World Championships after finishing fourth at the USATF meet. Piperi, also the NCAA indoor silver medalist for Texas, set his outdoor PB of 21.54m/70-8 at the Texas Relays in March. Adding almost three feet to his pre-2022 PB this year, Roger Steen (Luck, WI/USATF Pacific) was fifth at the USATF Championships and has thrown 21.47m/70-5.25. he was also third at the USATF Indoor Championships. Eldred Henry of the British Virgin Islands and O'Dayne Richards of Jamaica will provide the best competition for the U.S. duo. Richards was the bronze medalist at the 2015 World Championships.
A dynamic Jamaican duo will be favored, with World Championships ninth-place finisher Fedrick Dacres and 12th-placer Traves Smikle bringing the farthest lifetime bests. Dacres earned silver at the 2019 World Championships and has thrown 70.78m/232-3, while Smikle has a PB of 67.72m/222-2. Returning to competition after a hiatus since 2018, USATF champion Andrew Evans (Portage, MI/USATF Kentucky) threw a PB 66.74m/218-11 to finish second at the USATF Throws Festival in Tucson. BYU's Dallin Shurts (Banks, OR/USATF Oregon) didn't qualify for the NCAA Championships but was a surprise runner-up at the USATF Championships. He has a best of 64.02m/210-0.
American record holder Rudy Winkler (Ithaca, NY/USATF New York) was sixth at the World Championships, two spots ahead of USATF champion Daniel Haugh (Marietta, GA/USATF Georgia). They are the only two entrants who have PBs better than 80m, with Winkler's top mark at 82.71m/271-4 from 2021 and Haugh's 80.18m/263-1 from winning the USATF title in June. The Canadian pair of Adam Keenan and Rowan Hamilton will be in the medal hunt after both men made World Championships appearances, Keenan narrowly missing out on the final.
2012 Olympic champion Keshorn Walcott of Trinidad was fourth at the Commonwealth Games and is a solid favorite based on his 89.07m/292-2 season best. Curtis Thompson (Florence, NJ/USATF New England) added more than 15 feet to his lifetime best with an 87.70m/287-9 at the American JavFest in July and was 11th at the World Championships after placing second at the USATF Championships. The man who beat him at the USATF meet, Virginia's Ethan Dabbs (Charlottesville, VA/USATF Virginia) was the NCAA runner-up and has a best of 82.92m/272-0. World U20 bronze medalist Keyshawn Strachan of the Bahamas will be buoyed by hometown fans and has a best of 79.89m/262-1. Once competition begins, results can be found here. Join the conversation with USATF on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook using the hashtag #USATF.