Congratulations🤩👏🏾👏🏽 are in order for Munich 🇹🇹1972 Olympian and Head Track and Field coach at Grambling State University, Bertram Lovell, who on Friday night was inducted into the Southwestern Athletic Conference ( SWAC) Hall of Fame. Lovell won a bronze medal 🇹🇹🥉 in the 4x100m at 1973 CAC Games in Maracaibo Venezuela🇻🇪. Coach Lovell graduated from Grambling State in 1977 has collected ,a mind blowing 🤯,36 conference titles along with 36 Coach of the Year awards.🤩🏆 Bertram’s athletic abilities eventually led him to attend Grambling State University where he majored in health, physical education, and recreation. He later earned a master’s degree in sports administration. As a coach, Bertram said he tries to put the same type of time and effort that others put in him when he was a young athlete. “I try to motivate and encourage my students,” he said, recalling the people who supported him. “My mom pawned a pair of her bracelets to go buy me spikes to run in,” he said. “If it weren’t for her, I would not have gone as far as I did.” His grandfather also encouraged him as Bertram took to running at 4 a.m. ,doing sprints at mid-day and in the evening, playing soccer and jumping rope. “It was like an 8-hour-a-day job,” he recalled. “I ate, slept, and drank track at the time. I promised my grandfather that I was going to be the best in the country.” The Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) is a collegiate athletic conference headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, which is made up of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the Southern United States. Trinidad and Tobago salutes you sir! 🇹🇹👏🏾👏🏽 Photo credit📸: @gramtfxc @grambling1901 @gramblingathletics Direct quotes courtesy Grambling State University athletic department.

Awards szn❗️🥇🤩😍😎👑🔥😄 🏆 🇹🇹🤩Olympic Long Jumper Tyra Gittens 😍was a nominee tonight ,for the prestigious Bowerman Award🏆 , which is awarded each year to the top male & top female athlete in collegiate track & field. The award was won by Olympic 800m Champion @athiiing Athing Mu of the the 🇺🇸 United States. 🤩👏🏾 🇹🇹🥉Olympic 4x400m Medalist Deon Lendore was also present. He won the prestigious award in 2014.

Ok track fans it’s time for another blast 💥 from the past❗️🤩 Pilar Mc Shine- Bell holds 5 🇹🇹National records🤯🔥, most notably the 1500m record of 4:13.21 which she ran in 2013 in Ninove, Belgium 🇧🇪. She claimed a silver medal 🥈 at the 2009 CAC Championships in Cuba 🇨🇺 in the 800m with a time of 2:02.79. Pilar is a multiple times Carifta Games medalist. She competed collegiately for the Florida State University Seminoles @fsu_track , where she was a multiple times ACC champion 🥇🥇 and 6x All American between Track and Cross Country. She graduated👩🏾‍🎓 from @floridastateuniversity with a degree 📜 in Psychology. @pshine800 is a past student of Success Laventille Composite Secondary School. She is now a married mother of 3 and resides in the United States 🇺🇸. Thanks for your service🇹🇹👏🏾👏🏼. #distancerunner #history #trinidadandtobago #tracknation #crosscountry

Huge Congratulations to Dwight St. Hillaire, who broke his own indoor University of Kentucky 300m record with a time of 32.70 yesterday! 🇹🇹🔥👏🏼🥇👏🏾🤯🤩. Dwight’s run was the 4th fastest time in NCAA HISTORY❗️😮 2nd place went to Lance Lang his Kentucky teammate with a time of 33.04! @kentuckytrack Dwight is a member of Kaizen Panthers , from TOBAGO🇹🇹. @dwight_sthillaire

Congratulations 🎊🤩👏🏾👏🏼are in order for triple 🇹🇹Olympic Medalist 🥇🥈🥈 Richard “Torpedo” Thompson, who 👨🏾‍🎓 graduated with a Masters Degree 📜 in Sports Administration from Troy University. Richard graduated with a 4.0 GPA. @torpedott @teamtto @sportscompanytt

Ok 🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago Track and Field fanatics time for a 🤩tremendous 💥 blast from the past❗️ Darrel Brown won 5 consecutive 100m Carifta gold medals (2@u-17 & 3 @ u-20) between 1999-2003. 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇 He is one of only 3 🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago athletes to win the Austin Sealy award 🏆,given to the most outstanding athlete at the Carifta Games. (Comment the other two winners below ⬇️) At the 2003 World Championships ,in Paris France 🇫🇷,Darrel broke the 🌎World Junior Record with a time of 10.01🤩😍🤯🔥, which still stands as our national junior 100m record🇹🇹. At those very same World Championships he claimed a historic silver medal behind Kim Collins. In 2001 he won the World Youth 100m title 🥇 in Debrecen, Hungary 🇭🇺.The following year ,2002, more gold flowed, he and another 🇹🇹 T&T sprinting legend Marc Burns dominated the field in a historic 1-2 sweep🥇🥈🇹🇹🔥🤩🤯, at the World Junior Championships in Kingston, Jamaica 🇯🇲. Darrel ran the first leg on the Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 record 4x100m team( 37.62).He teamed up with Marc Burns, Emmanuel Callender and Richard Thompson as they claimed silver behind Usain Bolt and his Jamaican 🇯🇲 teammates ,at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin Germany🇩🇪. Thank you for your service. 🇹🇹🥇 @darrelrbrown @teamtto @sportscompanytt @torpedott @emmanuel_eman1 @usainbolt @atoboldon @runkim100m

The 🇹🇹 Track and Field fraternity joins the rest of the Trinidad and Tobago sporting fraternity in mourning the passing of veteran sports administrator, Mr. Tony Hartford. Thank you for your service to Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹.

Honorable mention for 21 year old Shot Putter Ianna Roach, who finished 10th with a throw of 12.96. 👏🏾👏🏼🇹🇹As action continues at the Pan American Junior Games in Cali 🇨🇴. Rosa Ramirez Santana of the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 won gold with a throw of 17.45. @iannamroach is a member of @memphispioneerstt and is currently a student 🤓 athlete at the University of Iowa 📚. @coachbee26 @ianhypolite @sportscompanytt @sportandcommdevtt @kent_fuentes @jamessaunderstv @gmerrique @kwame.laurence Photo Credit 📸🤩: @ttgameplan

Honorable mention for CLEMENT CAMPBELL, who placed 9th in the long jump with a leap of 7.27. 👏🏾👏🏼🇹🇹 @clement_campbell is a member of @memphispioneerstt. He is also a student @pitt_tf_xc

Honorable mention for ANSON MOSES who placed 👏🏾👏🏼🇹🇹8th in the grueling multi event (10) DECATHLON. He had a score of 5295. Anson is a member of Tobago Falcons Athletic Club. @ansonmoses @teamtto @totalsporttofficial @kent_fuentes @kwame.laurence @gmerrique @jamessaunderstv @tobagosportslive @sportscompanytt

Huge 👏🏾👏🏼🎊Congratulations to KELSEY DANIEL 🇹🇹🔥! He just claimed a Silver Medal in the Long Jump🥈 with a huge personal best jump of 7.90 🤩🤯😮❗️This is T&T’s second medal in Track and Field at the Pan American Junior Games in Cali, Colombia 🇨🇴. Kelsey is a member of @kaizenpanthers out of Tobago! Maikel Vidal of Cuba 🇨🇺 claimed gold 🥇with a jump of 7.97 and John Berrio , of Colombia 🇨🇴 claimed bronze 🥉 with a jump of 7.82. Honorable mention goes out to 🇹🇹CLEMENT CAMPBELL of @memphispioneerstt who placed 9th with a jump 7.27. 👏🏾👏🏼 @clement_campbell @kelseyislegit43 @memphispioneerstt @teamtto @jumper814 @kaizenpanthers @panamsports @sportscompanytt @coachbee26 @pitt_tf_xc @kent_fuentes @kwame.laurence @gmerrique @jamessaunderstv

Massive 🇹🇹🤩Congratulations go out to TYRIQ HORSFORD, who claimed a historic Bronze Medal 🥉 for Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 ,in the Javelin Throw, earlier today at the Pan American Junior Games , in Cali Colombia 🇨🇴. Brazil 🇧🇷 went 🥇 🥈 with Pedro Rodrigues (74.41) and Luiz Da Silva 71.35. @tyriq_horsford claimed 🥉 with a 71.35 throw.🔥 👏🏾👏🏽#tracknation #trinidadandtobago #worldathletics @teamtto @gmerrique @kent_fuentes @kwame.laurence @jamessaunderstv @youngprince_47 @zhewitt89 @voisindexter @jamaal800 @worldathletics @hailstatetf @q_key85