Arkansas junior Ackera Nugent produced a meet record 11.13 to win the Women’s 100m at the 2023 John McDonnell Invitational in Fayetteville, Arkansas on Friday.

Nugent, who set a collegiate record 7.72 on her way to claiming the NCAA Indoor 60m hurdles title in March, won ahead of the USA’s Jayda Baylark (11.24) and her Arkansas teammate Ariane Linton (11.31).

Another Jamaican Arkansas junior, Phillip Lemonious, took first place in the Men’s 110m hurdles in 13.77 ahead of teammates Matthew Lewis-Banks (13.90) and Brevin Sims (14.05).

Bahamian Gabrielle Gibson ran 13.07 to win the Women’s 100m hurdles ahead of Missouri Southern’s Kiara Smith (13.22) and Ashley Wallace of Kansas, who also did 13.81 in third. All three times were personal bests.

The men’s 400m was also filled with personal bests with Harding’s Dakari Bush taking the win in 46.00 over Arkansas’s Jeremy Farr (46.45) and Kansas’ Grant Lockwood (46.63).

Jamaican Arkansas sophomore Nickisha Pryce ran a personal best and meet record 51.47 to win the Women’s equivalent over teammate’s Paris Peoples (52.19) and Aaliyah pratt (53.36).

Jamaican freshman Devontie Archer added to Arkansas’ dominant day with a personal best 51.50 for victory in the Men’s 400m hurdles over Kansas’ Jameir Colbert (52.34) and Missouri’s Zachary Charles (53.28).

St. Vincent & the Grenadines’ Shafiqua Maloney took the title in the Women’s 800m in a meet record and season’s best 2:03.20 ahead of the USA’s Honour Finley (2:03.62) and Arkansas’s Lainey Quandt (2:05.58).

In the field, Arkansas sophomore Ralford Mullings threw a meet record 60.71m to win the Men’s discus ahead of the Kansas pair of Dimitrios Pavlidis (57.93m) and Patrick Larrison (55.87m).

The Men’s shot put saw Arkansas senior Roje Stona produce a meet record and personal best 20.08m for victory ahead of Jamaica’s Rajindra Campbell (19.98m) and Arkansas’s Jordan West (18.99m).

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