SPORTS SECTION E
MONDAY, MARCH 31, 2025
‘Ageless wonder’ Timothy Munnings sets another world record By BRENT STUBBS Chief Sports Editor bstubbs@tribunemedia.net
MALCOLM Menzies and Kami Roach repeated as the men and women champions of the 2025 Powerade Potcakeman Triathlon yesterday at Jaws Beach. The sprint distance triathlon featured a 750 metre swim at Jaws Beach, a 12-mile two-loop course around Albany/Clifton Pier and a 5-kilometre bike ride on the road. It was organised by Baark!, who presented awards to the winners in all of the age groups. The 16-year-old Menzies, preparing for the open water swim at the CARIFTA Swim Championships over the Easter holiday in Trinidad & Tobago, took the men’s title swim, bicycle and run race in 59.58 seconds over Grand Bahamians runner-up Launy Duncombe in 1:05.52 and third place finisher Ayden Bain in 1:10.08. “It was very good. It was pretty cloudy, so it wasn’t that hard, but it was very windy on the bike, but overall, it was a very good day out,” Menzies said. As the swim was his strongest component of the competition, Menzies said he worked extremely hard in it because he wants to be ready to compete at CARIFTA. But he admitted that he improved on his bike in training over the past six months and he had a really good run to cap it off. “It
TIMOTHY Munnings after his world record performance. Ronald Humphrey got the bronze with 15-93/4 82m). Armbrister also competed in the men’s 400m final where he placed fifth in 1:00.77. Great Britain’s
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TIMOTHY Munnings proudly holds the Bahamian flag on top of the medal dias at this year’s World Masters Indoor Championships at the Alachua County Sports Center in Alachua, Florida.
BAHAMIAN Olympian Lamar Taylor closed out his collegiate swimming career at the University of Tennessee by inking his
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name on the Volunteers men’s 400m freestyle relay team at the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Swimming Championships over the weekend. As the meet came to a close on Saturday at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatics Center in Federal Way, Washington, Taylor swum a split of 41.02 on the second leg on the team of Gui Caribe (40.57), Nikoli Blackmon (41.35) and Jordan Crooks (39.36) as they touched the wall in a new NCAA championship record time of 2:42.30 to erase their own national record. Matt Kredich, the director of swimming and diving at Tennessee, could hardly contain himself when he spoke about the feat. “That 400 free relay title has been a long time coming,” he said. “There were six guys who competed all year to be on that relay, and when they compete, they make each other better. “The first three legs were fantastic, but to set it up for Jordan Crooks, who has redefined speed
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‘COACH YO’ AND HER LADY REBELS ARE ELIMINATED
Olympian Lamar Taylor and relay team in the NCAA record books By BRENT STUBBS Chief Sports Editor bstubbs@tribunemedia.net
MENZIES AND ROACH TAKE HOME TRIATHLON TITLES By BRENT STUBBS Chief Sports Editor bstubbs@tribunemedia.net
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imothy Munnings can celebrate again with another world record - this time in the men’s 400 metres indoors at the World Masters Association’s Indoor Championships. Munnings, who established the world outdoor 400m record outdoors last year, inked his name on the indoor record yesterday in the men’s 55-59 400m in a time of 52.82 seconds to blow away the field. Americans Lee Bridges and David Henry picked up the silver and bronze in 53.45 and 54.99 respectively. “This one really feels good because this is my last chance to run in this particular age category, so I was happy to come out with the gold medal and the world record,” said Munnings, who noted that he had some family members there supporting him and he didn’t want to let them and the country down. “So it was a good way for me to complete this indoor season.” Munnings, 58, was a part of a five-member team representing The Bahamas that won two medals at the week-long competition at the Alachua County Sports Center in Alachua County, Florida. The other medal - a bronze - came yesterday as well from Michael Armbrister in the men’s 65-69 long jump with a leap of 15-feet, 63/4-inches or 4.73m. Poland’s Wieslaw Musial took the gold with 17-4 (5.28m) and American
MALE and female winners Malcolm Menzies and Kami Roach.
By BRENT STUBBS Chief Sports Editor bstubbs@tribunemedia.net
BAHAMIAN swim sensation Lamar Taylor, second from right, celebrates with his Tennessee Vols men’s relay team. and redefined sprinting, nationally and internationally, to hand it off to him as his last swim ever, that was an exclamation point on a career that I’m still in awe of and one that is worthy of a lot of different honours,” said Kredich. It marked the first time Tennessee won the event since 1979 and gave the Volunteers its third NCAA title of the week - its most since having four in 1996. As a programme, the Vols now boast 49 all-time titles. Taylor, 21, anchored the Vols to another title in the 200m freestyle in 1:12.84. Crooks, Caribe and Blackman competed in that order before Taylor brought it home for another triumphant performance.
Taylor also led off the 200m medley team of Kevin Houseman, Caribe and Crooks that clocked 1:20.50 for second place. Taylor, a transfer from Henderson State, said he was thrilled to have been a part of history - again. “The performance was great, I was able to lower my best times in all of my events and we defended our relay NCAA recordbreaking performance,” he said. “My best performance this week would have to be winning the B final in 100 free.” In that 100m free, Taylor was a third-place finisher in 45.51 as he trailed Crooks with another NCAA record-breaking
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COACH Yolett McPheeMcCuin and her Ole Miss Lady Rebels women’s basketball team’s run at the 2025 NCAA Division Women’s Basketball Tournament came to an end on Saturday. In the round of the Sweet 16 at the Spokane Arena in Spokane, Washington, the Lady Rebels fell 76-62 to the UCLA Lady Bruins. It’s Ole Miss’ 12th appearance in the Sweet 16
in its programme history, pushing their overall record in the March Madness top collegiate tournament to 22-11. And McPhee-McCuin, a native from Grand Bahama, said they appreciated the hospitality they received from the city of Spokane, but they wanted to make their presence felt in the tournament and they did. “When I look at this season, no one wanted us, no one thought we would be here and we’re still here
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THE SPORTS March CALENDAR PICKLEBALL EXHIBITION THE Bahamas Pickleball Federation is scheduled to hold a Pickleball Exhibition on April 5 at the Mall at Marathon next to John Bull from noon to 4pm. Admission is free, but space is limited. The event is being sponsored by Domino’s Pizza, the Mall at Marathon, the Sports Center and High Noon Sun Sips.
BASEBALL/ SOFTBALL RELOADED INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT THE Reloaded baseball and softball programme for boys and girls is scheduled to hold its fourth invitational tournament April 18-21 at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex. The event, organised
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