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Bahamians Shine at NCAA Indoor Conference Championships

U.S.A. – The NCAA Indoor Track and Field season enters conference championship and Bahamians are already making an impact for their respective programs.

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11 months ago

February 28, 2025

10th Year Seniors

U.S.A. – The NCAA Indoor Track and Field season enters conference championship and Bahamians are already making an impact for their respective programs.

On night one of the SEC Indoor Championships in College Station, Texas, Wanya McCoy of the Florida Gators is well on his way to defending his 200m title.

McCoy, the 2024 champion, began his title defense with a new personal best time of 20.25 seconds in the prelims.

At the time, it was a new meet and facility record, before they were broken again in the prelims, but McCoy will have an opportunity to reclaim those records Saturday night in the finals.

Anthaya Charlton also scored the Gators’ first points of the meet in the long jump.

Charlton recorded a mark of 6.47m on her final attempt to finish in fourth place.

At the Birmingham Crossplex in Alabama, Georgia Southern’s Shatalya Dorsett won her first individual conference title at the Sun Belt Indoor Championships.

Dorsett won the 60m dash with a new school record and personal best time of 7.33 secs.

She also ran a personal best of 23.56 secs in the 200m to finish fifth.

WNBA

What a day for Jonquel Jones – on the court her team opened the Women’s Chinese Basketball Association playoffs with a win and off the court she was named one of USA Today’s Women of the Year.

Jones recently joined Sichaun and they began the postseason with a 97-53 win over Heilongjiang in the WCBA quarterfinals.

USA Today selected 61 honorees from a cross section of that includes leaders, activists, athletes and others that inspire the next generation.

Jones is honored as one of those leaders breaking barriers, pushing for change, and making their communities better.

Basketball

Bahamas basketball will make history again this summer, headed to the 2025 FIBA Americup for the first time in three decades.

This summer in Managua, Nicaragua will mark just the second Americup appearance for The Bahamas in the event’s history.

In 1995, they finished eighth in what was then called, the tournament of the Americas.

Coached by “Moon” McPhee, the team got a historic win over Venezuela in the group stage.

Fast forward thirty years and the qualification process for this year’s event is complete and, the field of 12 teams is all set.

The Bahamas has joined the group that includes host Nicaragua, Uruguay, Brazil, the USA, Argentina, Colombia, Panama, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Canada.

The tournament will be hosted august 23-31 at the alexis argüello sports center in managua.