USC Track & Field: 3 Trojans Medal At U23 Championships

At the 2023 North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletics Association (NACAC) U23 Championships in San Jose, Costa Rica between July 21st-23rd, three USC Trojan track stars cleaned up handsomely, per a USC press release.

Junior sprinter Jan'Taijah Jones, All-American grad student Bailey Lear, and freshman sprinter William Jones all medaled in the competition.

Jan-Taijah Jones and Lear, two colleagues on the women's track team, each won gold medals in separate relay events. Jan-Taijah Jones helped propel the USA women's 4x400m relay team with a winning time of 3:26.83. The 5'8" third-year star has the third-best women's indoor 400m time in the history of USC, plus the fourth and fifth best times in women's indoor 4x400m relays ever for a Trojan.

Lear, meanwhile, won a gold with her country's mixed 4x400m relay time with a 3:14.71 finish. The 5'6" vet boasts the fourth-highest women's indoor 400m speed.

William Jones, kicking off his debut NCAA season for the men's track team, actually won two medals: a silver for his part in the first leg of a 4x400m relay race (his team ran a total of 3:03.84), and a bronze in a 400m competition, which he ran in 45.95 seconds. Jones' 400m time of 46.76 in the New Balance Indoor Nationals, a high school competition, was good for a second-place finish.