Bennett won’t rush Moore

Ashanti Moore's 11.17 seconds in the Class One Girls 100m at the 2019 ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships met the IAAF World Championships A standard, which is at 11.24 seconds.

But her coach Corey Bennett is not too eager to thrust the 18 year old into the realm of senior sprinting, as he believes she is still young in her development.

"The objective is to give her a shot at the Junior Pan American Games in the summer, but I think the World Championships maybe a little bit out of her depth," Bennett said. "She might get a relay spot, but there is no pressure on her to make the senior team. I think she is still young and young at the event."

The Hydel High School coach pulled Moore and several of his athletes from the Carifta Trials last week as he believed they needed time to recover from the five-day high school championships, which had finished five days prior to the Trials.

"I guess if the JAAA (Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association) would allow it, then she could compete at the Senior Trials with the objective of making the Pan American Junior team if she does well," he said.

Moore switched back to the 100m this year after competing in the heptathlon at Champs for two seasons.

"We knew that she would do well. As early as in December, we would joke with her in training and say 11.2," he recalled. "Her technique had improved significantly, even though there is still a lot of work to be done, but we weren't shocked, I was more pleased."