Heading into the Big East Outdoor Track and Field Championships, the student-athletes from St. John’s University were fit and focused.
For Claire Cushing, a senior distance runner from Canada, it has been a sweet change from her freshman year, when the pandemic forced her to quickly head home before borders closed. For freshmen Nora Haugen, a sprinter from Norway, and Jamora Alves, a thrower from Grenada, it’s been a great start to their collegiate careers.
Sign up for our acclaimed free newsletter Editorially Black with the top Racial Equity stories of the day to your inbox! Attending school away from home is not new to Alves, who attended high school in Jamaica, West Indies. She started throwing at the age of 8 but was largely self-taught—“just going and competing barefoot sometimes,” she said. “I met a coach from Grenada and went from there.”
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