Kaua‘i High School graduate and current University of Hawai‘i freshman Jamilee Jimenez will compete in the 60 Meter Dash and the Long Jump at the University of Washington Invitational tomorrow and Sunday at the Dempsey Indoor facility. Jimenez and her
Kaua‘i High School graduate and current University of Hawai‘i freshman Jamilee Jimenez will compete in the 60 Meter Dash and the Long Jump at the University of Washington Invitational tomorrow and Sunday at the Dempsey Indoor facility.
Jimenez and her teammates left yesterday afternoon en route to Seattle.
This will be her second official meet of the season.
In her first meet last week, Jimenez competed in the same two events and broke the Hawai‘i record in the 60 Meter Dash during her heat with a time of 7.93 seconds.
The previous record was set by Ku‘ulei Karratti in 2005. Jimenez’s breaking of the record was the first record to fall of the season. There were 13 school records broken last season.
Jimenez set or help set three Kaua‘i Interscholastic Federation records during her time as as a Red Raider.
She holds the record for the long jump with a distance of 18-feet-1/2 inches — it was a record she set just a year prior with a jump of 17-feet-10 1/2 inches — The high jump record with a height of 5 feet 2 1/4 inches and shares the record in the 4×100 Meter Relay with teammates Tiffany Ikeda-Simao, Auika Muragin and Kathleen Cadiente.
