CHICAGO, Illinois – Chicago State track and field head coach Craig Collins has announced the signing of five student-athletes to his 2018-19 recruiting class that will join the program for the fall semester in late August.
An'Twanique Kinsler, Jayla McClure and Majesty Otems will compete for the CSU women's team, while Matt Brown and Robbie Wooden will compete for the CSU men's team. All five student-athletes will have four years of eligibility beginning in '18-19.
"Though it is not common to rely heavily on incoming freshmen to make significant impacts on teams immediately, it is apparent that this freshmen class is built to change the game for our program as soon as they hit campus. I am quite pleased and excited about the direction both our Women's and Men's teams are headed," Collins said.
Kinsler captured district and regional titles in the 800-meter run and 4x400-meter relay events Pahokee (Fla.) High School while helping the 4x400 relay team finish second in the state. She also personal-best times of 12.2 in the 100m, 25.3 in the 200m, 58.3 in the 400m in her final prep season. Kinsler, an honor roll student who finished fourth in her graduating class at Pahokee, also recorded PR times in the 800-meter run (2:20.6) and 21:41 in the 5K for cross country in addition to earning letters in track and cross country.
McClure, a two-sport athlete in track and basketball at Orlando's Timber Creek High School, helped her school's 4x400 and 4x800-meter relay teams advance to the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) 4A state championship meet last month. She also won the Metro East Conference title and finished second in the FHSAA 4A District 4 meet individual in the 400-meter dash.
Otems helped Hitchcock's 4x100 and 4x200-meter relay teams capture regional titles while the 4x100 relay placed fifth in the state. She was a three-sport athlete at HHS after earning district MVP honors and honorable mention all-district honors in volleyball during senior year. Otems was an A/B honor student at Hitchcock.
Brown competed at Cornwall College, located in Montego Bay, Jamaica, alongside current CSU track standouts Orelle Bulgin (Montego Bay, Jamaica/Cornwall College)and Ricordo McKenzie (Montego Bay, Jamaica/Cornwall College). He captured the 100-meter dash title at the 2017 County of Cornwall Athletics Association (COCAA) Western Championship with a time of 10.58, and helped Cornwall's 4x100-meter relay team record a time of 41.20 at the COCAA meet.
A three-sport athlete at Miami's Carol City Senior High School, Wooden recorded a personal-best time of 1:58 in the 800-meter dash in his senior year. He also lettered in cross country and football at Carol City, and competed for the Ultimate Track Club in 2017-18.
"With the addition of this 2018-19 recruiting class, we will become more competitive and have more depth in a number of events," added Collins. Each of our signees are up to the challenge of high level competition and are ready to give us that edge we need to further our quest to obtain a conference championship."
Please check back to www.gocsucougars.com in the coming weeks for more information regarding CSU Track and Field's 2018-19 recruiting class.
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