St Lucia’s Julien Alfred and Jamaica’s Damion Thomas produced record-breaking continued to build on their impressive collegiate legacies on Saturday delivering record-breaking performances at the Charlie Thomas Invitational at Bryan College-Station in Texas on Saturday.

There was also an outstanding 400-metre run from Charokee Young but she had to settle for a silver medal behind a teammate Athing Mu, who established a new meet record as well as a World U20 indoor record.

Alfred, a junior at Texas, already considered to be among the top sprinters in the USA and University of Texas, set a meet record in the prelims, clocking 7.15 – the second-best mark in the country this season and tied for the sixth-best run in school history.

She followed it up by winning the final in 7.17.

The two marks give her possession of five of the top eight 60-metre runs in school history.

She beat her teammate Kynnedy Flannel, who ran a personal best 7.23 for second place. Zhane Smith of Texas A&M finished third in a personal-best 7.33.

Meanwhile, Thomas, a three-time All-American delivered one of the more impressive performances at the meeting winning the 60m hurdles in 7.72, breaking the previous meet record of 7.78 set back in 2011.

 Second place went to his LSU teammate Eric Edwards Jr whose 7.78 equalled the previous record and was a season-best time.

Bashu Abdullahi of USTA was third. His time of 7.80 was also a personal best.

The performance of meet belonged to Athing Mu, the Texas A&M freshman who shattered the meet record of 52.32 set by Kamaria Brown in 2015. Her winning time of 50.52 was also a World U20 record.

Young, also of Texas A&M, was also below the previous meet record running a personal best 51.93.

Third place went to LSU’s Amber Anning who clocked 53.10.