QUERETARO, Mexico – Three Stanford women represented their countries at the NACAC Under-23 track and field championships last weekend, with Jenna Gray earning the highest finish among them.
Gray, a rising senior and two-sport All-America, competed for the United States for the first time in either track and field or volleyball. She was second in the javelin on Saturday with a throw of 176-9, only two feet out of first.
Ashlan Best, a rising junior, was third in the 200 meters in 23.75 and ran the second leg on Canada's runner-up team in the 4x100 relay. Best is a veteran of Canadian national teams. She won the 2017 Pan Am Junior 200 title in Peru and reached the World Under-20 final in the 400 in 2018 in Finland.
Aria Small, this year's Barbados national champion in the triple jump, was sixth in that event. The rising junior jumped 42-2.
The meet served as the under-23 championships for the North American, Central American and Caribbean region.
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NACAC U23 Championships
Women
200 – 1, Anglerne Annelus (USA) 22.84; 3, Ashlan Best (Canada) 23.75.
4x100 – 1, USA 42.97; 2, Canada (Ashlan Best, second leg) 44.28.
Triple jump – 1, Davisleydis Velazco (Cuba) 45-9w (13.94m); 6, Aria Small (Barbados) 42-2 (12.85m).
Javelin – 1, Kylee Carter (USA) 178-9 (54.48m); 2, Jenna Gray (USA) 176-9.