BVI athletes to compete in the Cayman Islands, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Montana, California and Puerto Rico this week: L-R: Chantel Malone, Ashley Kelly, Karene King & Britney Wattley. PHOTO: Ronnye Harrison
MAY 9—Chantel Malone will compete in the inaugural Cayman Islands Invitational today, leading off the field of the territory’s top athletes in competition through Sunday, May 13.
Malone who ran 52.60 seconds in the 400m in her last outing, will attempt to better that mark and her personal best of 52.35 which is also the Olympic Games B qualifying mark.
Fresh off winning the MEAC Championships 100m with a personal best of 11.60 seconds and placing fourth in the 200m with another career best mark of 23.67, Morgan State Bears Jr. Britney Wattley, will compete in the ECAC/IC4A Championships in Princeton, New Jersey, from Friday to Sunday.
Illinois Sr. Ashley Kelly, will bring the curtains down on her Big 10 Conference Championships career, when she competes at the outdoor conference championships in Madison, Wisconsin, starting on Friday. She’s the reigning Big 10 Conference 400m champ with a personal best of 52.71 seconds. So far this season, Kelly has turned in marks of 53.48 and 23.98 in the 400m and 200m respectively. Her 200m best is 23.49.
Portland State Vikings Sr. Dominique Maloney will compete in the Big Sky Conference in Bozeman, Montana on Friday and Saturday. She will help the Vikings in the 200 and 400m as well as the 4x400m relay. Maloney has season’s bests of 25.00 and 56.41 respectively.
Coming off running the third leg on the Sr. Women’s 4x100m Relay in the Penn Relays, Karene King will head to Los Angeles for a meet at Cal State LA. In her last time in California, she won the Mt. SAC 200m in 23.27 seconds with a +2.1 meters per second tailwind. While the mark was under the Olympic Games B qualifying standard of 23.30, the wind was .1 over the allowable 2.0. She’s hoping for favorable conditions this week in pursuit of the Olympic Games mark.
Sprinter Tahesia Harrigan, coming off her second race since an injury, will run in the Ponce Grand Prix in Puerto Rico on Saturday. Last week in Guadeloupe, she ran a season’s best of 11.61 seconds and will tackle her pet event in Ponce.