WATCH: 46.80 400m For Freshman Jamal Walton!
Sixteen year old freshman Jamal Walton might not be running on the high school scene this season, but he doesn't need too. Watch Walton dominate a field of college runners at the Hurricane Invitational Meet and run the fastest 400m time in the country this year of 46.80. He was also fourth in the 200 with a time of 21.52. Walton, who ran last year for the U.S. Virgin Islands and broke several of Usain Bolt's age group records, was planning to attend St. Thomas Aquinas this season, but has instead enrolled at Everglades High School. Walton's future schedule is already mapped out and includes CARIFTA in St. Kitts and Nevis and the Hurricane Alumni Invitational in April, the Cayman Invitational in May, and plans of running in the IAAF World Youth Championships in Colombia, Pan American Junior Championships in Canada, and 2015 Youth Games in Somoa.
Miami Gardens Express teammate Tyrese Cooper, an 8th grader at Norland Middle School who swept the 100,200, and 400 at the middle school state championship was 4th in the 400 (47.67) and fifth in the 200m dash (21.66).
MGX Coach Darius Lawshea had this to say about the two boys.
Jamal: "We have been training for about a month on the grass & with cones working on his finish with strength endurance training. He ran a pretty good race, but I feel he could have got out harder. All and all, I am pleased with his finish and time because that was his weakness last year. He knows he has to train to be GREAT if he wants to be A GREAT 400m runner.
Tyrese: he was really nervous being that this was his 1st college and pro track meet, but i told him if he believes mind, body and soul he can also be great. Im very please how he ran it because he fault the whole way, but now we gotta work on his finish because by the middle school meet he will be going 46 High. He trains very hard to be GREAT and he was very upset that he lost the race lol. He is very hungry for GREATNESS
WATCH: Miami Hurricane Invitational 200m - Walton 21.52, Cooper, 21.66
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