Dec. 20, 2007

Highly decorated Jamaican hurdler, Shermaine Williams will join the Golden Bulls Track and Field program in January. Her athletic career will be guided by new JCSU head track and field coach Lennox Graham, who has coached several national and international athletes.

Shermaine is the current World Youth Championships silver medalist in the 100m hurdles where she ran 13.47 seconds to finish second in that event in Ostrava, Czech Republic last summer. Her time of 13.37 seconds in the preliminaries is still the fastest time in the event at the Championships. She is a highly decorated hurdler having won the Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA) Games Under-20 girls 100m hurdles last Easter in a championships record - 13.51 seconds. She has been undefeated at the high school championships for three consecutive years winning in class III once and two years in class II.

"I feel very happy about the opportunity to continue my education, to represent the JCSU golden bulls and to reunite with my coach (Lennox Graham)," remarked Shermaine.

Coach Graham and coach Lorna Vernon introduced Shermaine to the hurdles event five years ago and have been coaching her during her years at Convent of Mercy Alpha (high school). Under coach Graham's guidance, she has won medals each year at the High School Championships, at the CARIFTA Games, Junior Central American and Caribbean (CAC) games and the World Youth Championships.

Shermaine intends to major in biology and is looking forward to the opportunities and experiences ahead.