The 20-year-old is going into his senior season at Texas Tech University.
Jones became the NCAA Indoor 60m record holder with a 6.46 effort to win the NCAA Indoor title in March.
The three-time national champion also lowered his 100m personal best this season to a national record-equaling 9.91 at the Tom Jones Memorial in Gainesville on April.
Jones also dipped below 20 seconds in the 200m for the first time this season, running a personal best 19.87 for third at the NCAA Division 1 Outdoor Championships in June.
Jones will be representing the Bahamas at the IAAF World Championships in Budapest from August 19-27.
Action can be seen live on the SportsMax app.
“We are beyond excited to share that we’ve officially partnered with Adidas through NIL. We can’t wait to represent a brand that stands for excellence and innovation on the track,” the 18-year-olds, who have both committed to the University of Georgia, said in a joint statement on Instagram.
“We are grateful for this opportunity and can’t wait to start the beginning of an incredible journey with Team Adidas,” they added.
Both sisters attend the Druid Hills High School in Atlanta and specialize in the 100m and 200m. Sanaa, who has a personal best of 11.33 in the 100m, finished third in the event at the 2023 Carifta Games in the Bahamas, running a time of 11.65. She went two places better in the 200m which she won in 23.60.
She and Sole were members of the T&T 4x100m relay team that won the silver medal at the Games.
She followed up that performance with a bronze medal run at the Youth Commonwealth Games in Trinidad and Tobago in August 2023, clocking 11.48.
No slouch herself, Sole has personal best times of 11.60 for the 100m and 23.41 for the 200m.
In May 2023, the sisters, along with Southwest DeKalb High School twin brothers Isaiah Taylor and Xzaviah Taylor, combined for 13 of the DeKalb County School District (DCSD) 46 medals at the Georgia High School Association (GHSA) State Track Championships.
They have both also been selected to Trinidad & Tobago’s 68-member team for the 2024 Carifta Games set for March 30-April 1 in Grenada.
The 25-year-old specializes in the long jump but has also competed in the triple jump.
McLeod has personal bests of 8.34m in the long jump and 16.40m in the triple jump. Both those performances came in 2021.
Indoors, McLeod jumped a national record-equaling 8.40m on March 10 this year to win the NCAA Indoor title. That jump put McLeod in a tie with James Beckford for 20th all-time indoors.
Last week, McLeod narrowly missed out on a medal in the long jump at the World Championships in Budapest.
The Arkansas man had a best jump of 8.27m, the same distance as countryman Tajay Gayle, but was beaten to the bronze medal on countback.
His professional debut came at Thursday’s Zurich Diamond League meet where he jumped 7.60m for ninth.
“Lost for words. These past two years out of college, I wanted to run track and field professionally. Two years later I am Adidas athlete,” Bailey said in his post.
The younger brother of Jamaican Olympian icon Veronica Campbell-Brown, Bailey enjoyed perhaps his most successful season. In May, he ran a personal best 44.43 to win at the Drake Relays defeating the 2012 Olympic champion Kirani James and then won his first national title at the Jamaica National Championships in July.
In winning the national title, Bailey defeated Antonio Watson, who would go on to win the 400m at the championships in Budapest. Bailey made it to the final where he finished fifth in 44.96. An injury prevented him from participating in the 4x400m relay. His presence was missed as Jamaica finished fourth.
However, he has had his fair share of injuries which have hampered his progress and at one point had him thinking about giving up.
“The journey has not been an easy one by any means. I wanted to give up so many times because I felt as if I was not good enough. I stuck with it and I’m here to tell anyone out there chasing a goal that it is possible. It’s not a cliché, work hard and dedicate yourself.”
He expressed gratitude to his management team, OntrackManagement, “for believing in me and working with me through all my rough patches. I am grateful to have you all by my side.” He also thanked his coaxh Mickael Hanany for believing in him and giving him the opportunity to lean every day. “We have a lot more work to get done,” he said.
Nkrumie, who took silver in the 100m at the 2022 World U20 Championships in Colombia, sent shockwaves through the track & field world when he sped to a national junior record 9.99 to take the Class One Boys 100m title at the ISSA Grace Kennedy Boys and Girls Championships in March.
Unfortunately, the 19-year-old’s season was then interrupted by a hamstring injury he sustained as the Carifta Games just over a week later.
The former Kingston College standout recovered from his injury in time for the National Championships but was, understandably, far from his best.
He ran 10.21 in the heats but failed to get to the final after a 10.39 effort for sixth in his semi-final.
Nkrumie closed out his season with a silver medal at the Pan Am U20 Championships in Puerto Rico in on August 4. His time in the final was 10.31.
