SPORTS SECTION E
MONDAY, JUNE 16, 2025
NCAA DIVISION I OUTDOOR TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Anthaya Charlton fourth in 100 final By BRENT STUBBS Chief Sports Editor bstubbs@tribunemedia.net
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n a gallant comeback effort right to the finish line, Anthaya Charlton produced a fourth place in the final of the women’s 100 metres at the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division One Outdoor Track and Field Championships on Saturday. During the championships in Eugene, Oregon, Charlton was the featured star for The Bahamas, coming off her fifth place in the women’s long jump final on Thursday and she also participated on the women’s 4 x 100m relay for the University of Florida Gators. While she led the field of Bahamians at the college’s marquee event for the season, her big sister
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Devynne Charlton led a field of elite athletes competing in two other meets. Charlton’s leading role at NCAAs After running the second fastest time by a Bahamian on Thursday in qualifying for the final, Charlton stormed back from a slow start to clock 11.19 seconds in a photo finish on Saturday on the final day of the NCAA Championships. As she reeled in the field in the final stages of the race, Charlton was edged out for third by Louisiana State University’s sophomore Tima Godbless. There was another photo finish for first place with University of South Carolina’s senior Samirah Moody winning over JaMeesia Ford, a sophomore at South Carolina, after they both clocked 11.14. The race was recalled after they ran the first 5-10m after a faulty start with the timing system. On Thursday in the semifinals, Charlton posted the third fastest time this year of 10.97 for a new Florida school record and to trail Chandra Sturrup with her Bahamian national record of 10.84 she ran on July 5, 2005 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Also on Thursday in her first final, the versatile Charlton was fifth in her specialty in the women’s long jump with her best leap of 21-feet, 7/14-inches or 6.58 metres on her second attempt. Charlton, who made her senior debut at a major international meet at the World Indoor Championships, has qualified to compete in both the 100m and long jump at the World
400m semi-finals on Thursday, Tennessee’s junior Javonya Valcourt ran 51.65 for 13th place overall. Charlton also teamed up with Grand Bahamian Quincy Penn in the women’s 4 x 100m relay that didn’t finish in their race in the final. However, in the semifinals on Thursday, Penn and Charlton connected on the first two legs respectively as they helped the Gators’ team run a season’s best of 43.06 for the fifth best performance ever in Florida’s history. Valcourt, meanwhile, ran on Tennessee’s 4 x 400m women’s relay team that
By BRENT STUBBS Chief Sports Editor bstubbs@tribunemedia.net
finished 15th overall in the semifinals on Thursday in a time of 3:32.03, but it wasn’t fast enough to earn a lane in Saturday’s grand finale. On Friday as the men wrapped up their competition, Zion Campbell was the only other Bahamian to compete, running the opening leg for Minnesota in the men’s 4 x 100m relay final as they finished seventh in 38.88. Auburn took the title in 38.33. Charlton fourth in Stockholm In producing her season’s best of 12.59, Devynne
JONQUEL Jones and her defending champions New York Liberty are off to a fast start in the Women’s National Basketball Association’s 2025 season. And although they just had their nine-game winning streak snapped on Saturday by the Indiana Fever in a 102-88 loss, Jones, who missed her second straight game with an ankle injury, could use your support. The voting process for players to be selected to participate in the Women’s National Basketball Association’s 2025 AT&T WNBA All-Star Classic next month in Indianapolis, Indiana, has already begun. All you have to do is log onto the WNBA website and go to the All-Star voting and you will find Jones, who you can select along with a maximum of nine other players to participate in the WNBA Classic from July 18-20. Jones, a centre for the New York Liberty, is averaging 13.9 points, 2.7 assists, 10.3 rebounds and 32.3 FNP (foul not played, a term used to track a player’s participation and penalties related to fouls). The voting process began on Thursday and will conclude on Saturday, June 28 at 11:59pm ET. Fans can submit one ballot each day via the WNBA App and WNBA. com. Ballots can include votes for up to 10 (six frontcourt and four guards) players. The 6-foot, 6-inch 31-year-old Jones, a native
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ANTHAYA Charlton with her NCAA awards. Championships in Tokyo, Japan, in September. At the NCAA Championships, she was one of two Bahamians to compete in an individual final. The other was national record holder Keyshawn Strachan, who was fifth for Nebraska in the men’s javelin with his best heave of 250-9 (76.44m) on his sixth attempt. Also at the championships on Wednesday, Louisiana Tech’s senior Oscar Smith came in 10th in the men’s 110m hurdles in 13.45, just missing the ninth and final spot that went to John Adesola a senior at Houston - in 13.43. And in the women’s
VOTE FOR JONQUEL JONES, SHE ‘COULD USE YOUR SUPPORT’
NPSA SOFTBALL REGULAR SEASON: WILDCATS BEAT BLACK SCORPIONS 10-7
WINDSOR High School members and their head coach Rob Gibson pose with the overall team award.
Windsor High School captures the Gibson Cup By BRENT STUBBS Chief Sports Editor bstubbs@tribunemedia.net WITH three-time Olympian Rob Gibson preparing to return home to Canada, Windsor High put on one final show of appreciation for their director of rowing and head coach. Windsor High captured the majority of the older age group to compile enough points on Saturday at Lake Cunningham to capture the Gibson Cup, awarded to the club that won the most points across the events. This was presented for the first time this year in honour of Gibson, a threetime Olympian and silver medallist for Canada. Gibson, in one of his last official duties in the
four years he’s been in The Bahamas, was on hand to support Windsor High. More than 80 rowers competed in the 2025 RBC Cunningham Classic Rowing Regatta hosted by Nassau Rowing Club. Rowers competed from several schools across the island, as well as adult rowers from the Nassau Rowing Club, making this regatta the largest ever competitive rowing event in The Bahamas since the sport’s inception in 2012. The rowers competed across 20 events in all Olympic boat classes, from single sculls to octuple sculls containing eight rowers and a coxswain. “It is exciting to see how so many participants of all ages are able not only to take part in such a great
sport as rowing, but who are challenging themselves to become faster through rowing,” said NRC’s head coach Nick Rowett. “We encourage anyone who has ever seen rowing on television and has wanted to try to come and explore how great this sport can be.” For Windsor High, Isaiah Ellis took the crown in the boys’ under-19 singles event and Alessandra Callender emerged as the champion in the girls’ event. “I think I did pretty well for my last regatta,” said the 17-year-old two-week graduate from Windsor. “Rob has helped me for the past four years. He has been the driving force for everything that I have done.”
Callender, a 17-year-old who has been rowing for the past three years, was just as thrilled with her achievement, especially as she got to use the boat donated by Bahamian Olympian Emily Morley. “It was a good rce. I got to use Emily’s boat. It was really nice. It’s a very nice boat, but a little too new for me,” said Calendar, who will be entering grade 12 at Windsor. “I felt I did it. I was proud of myself. My teammates really pushed me.” Emma Johnston, the soccer star heading into grade 10, competed in a series of events, including winning the singles. “That was my best race,” Johnston said.
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THE New Providence Softball Association continued its regular season action on Saturday night in the Bankers Field at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex. Here’s a look at the results: Wildcats 10, Black Scorpions 7 Jasmine Scavella just missed completing the cycle she helped to give ace Thela Stevens all the firepower she needed offensively as they held off the Black Scorpions. Scavella was a
perfect 4-for-4 with a pair of doubles, a triple with two RBI and two runs scored; Stevens helped her own cause with a 1-for-1 plate appearance with a double, two RBI and a run scored. Kenya Forbes also helped out by going 3-for-4 with a double and homer, two RBI and two runs scored and Raona Hanna was 2-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored. Tashawna Bastian was 2-for-3 with a double and
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THE SPORTS June CALENDAR BASKETBALL SMILES IT’S that time again as Basketball Smiles returns to The Bahamas. Scheduled for June 16-18 at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium, the basketball clinic conducted by veteran American basketball coach Sam Nicholls is designed for boys and girls between the ages of seven and 17 years old. The girls’ clinic is slated
to run from 9am to noon and the boys will follow from 1-4pm. Interested persons are urged to contact coach Patricia “Pattie” Johnson at HO Nash Junior High School or call 5653675 for more details. CHARITY GOLF INVITATIONAL THE Pilot Club International is scheduled to hold a XCharity Golf
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