Sprinter Troy Long has just started a track scholarship at Wayland Baptist University in Texas.
The former standout high school sprinter and national junior representative has settled quickly in his new environment and begun training for the upcoming indoors meets.
Long, 20, a member of the Mustang Track Club here, went to school at Cayman Academy and family lives in West Bay. He represented Cayman at the 2010 and 2013 CARIFTA Games and was a member of the 2010 Central American and Caribbean junior team in the Dominican Republic.
Long’s Cayman coach Tyrone Yen said he has made a smooth transition to the senior level as part of the Cayman island 4×200-meters team that competed in the inaugural IAAF World Relay Championships earlier this year in the Bahamas, running a national record in that event and was in the Cayman 4x100m relay squad at the Commonwealth Games in Scotland last month.
Yen has high hopes for Long. He said, “I expect big things as Troy has an exceptional work ethic and he’s a very well-mannered young man who takes his books and track very seriously. Mustang Track Club and all its affiliates wish him all the best in his endeavors.”
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