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. 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. O'Keeffe clocked a PB 15:05.56 in June at Portland to clip more than 25 seconds off her lifetime best. Rogers will team up with Fiona O'Keeffe (Chapel Hill, NC/USATF North Carolina), the sixth-place finisher at the USATF meet. 5,000mĪ 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. 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. 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. Yee has a best of 9:27.54 from 2021 and ran in the heats at the World Championships and at Tokyo last summer. 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. 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. 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. MacLean, fifth at the Toyota USATF Championships, was a semifinalist at the Tokyo Games and finished seventh at the World Indoor Championships in March. 1,500mĪmericans 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. 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. 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. She has a PB of 1:55.61 and has clocked 1:57.23 this season. Ajee' Wilson won the World Indoor Championships gold in March and was eighth at the World Outdoor Championships. 800mįavored 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. Gaither lowered her PB to 22.41 in the semis at the World Championships in Eugene. Tynia Gaither of the Bahamas is also a threat with local support and has two Olympic Games and two World Championships on her resumé. 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. Mitchell has had a breakthrough year, dropping her PB by more than a half second to 22.39 in the USATF final. She was fifth at the USATF Championships, one spot in front of A'Keyla Mitchell (Fayetteville, AR/USATF Arkansas). 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. Oliver was an Olympic semifinalist at Tokyo and earned silver on the U.S. Javianne Oliver (Clermont, FL/USATF Florida) was seventh at the USATF meet and set her lifetime best of 10.95 in the semis there. Barnes was also a semifinalist for USC at the NCAA Championships. 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. She has a PB of 10.73 in the 100m and 21.45 in the 200m, the second fastest time ever by a woman. 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. 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. 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.
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