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Sports Commentary - Jamaica Men’s Performance at the Division 1, NCAA Outdoor Championships…

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A Statistical Review 1921- 2019 By Dale Brown NEW YORK, NY. Tuesday, July 28, 2020 -- The first NCAA sponsored Championship for any Collegiate sport was the Track and Field Championship for men, held in 1921. Because of the many scholarships awarded annually to international students, the Championship has evolved into a global event with athletes from over fifty countries competing for various universities and colleges. Jamaican students have consistently been among the most heavily recruited and best performing of all the international athletes. As recently as 2018, Jamaica with 29 competitors, had the most qualified athletes from the 56 foreign countries which were represented in the NCAA finals.                          (Great Britain had 21 and Canada 19) This review will focus on the Jamaican men who gained top three finishes in their individual events at the NCAA Division 1, Championships. NB- Yards was the measurement used up to 1975 – except the years when the