UCF track and field’s Sonnisha Williams capped her memorable junior year as a silver medalist in the long jump at the NACAC U-23 Championships on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Williams improved on each of her first three attempts, leaping to a mark of 6.17m\/20-3. She was narrowly edged out for gold by Arizona State’s Christabel Nettey, who represented Canada with a first-place finish of 6.18m\/20-3.50.<\/p>\n
Along with sprinters Aurieyall Scott and Octavious Freeman, Williams helped the Knights to a total of five medals during their time in Mexico. Prior to the meet, no UCF athlete had ever attended the championships.<\/p>\n
Williams finished the 2012 season as a USA Olympic Trials qualifier with two All-America honors and two school records to her credit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UCF track and field’s Sonnisha Williams capped her memorable junior year as a silver medalist in the long jump at the NACAC U-23 Championships on Sunday. Williams improved on each of her first three attempts, leaping to a mark of 6.17m\/20-3. She was narrowly edged out for gold by Arizona State’s Christabel Nettey, who represented Canada with a first-place finish…","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":38558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[739,3346,4348,4764,202],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-38557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-caryl-smith-gilbert","tag-ncaa","tag-sonnisha-williams","tag-track","tag-alumni"],"yoast_head":"\n