Sun | Oct 19, 2025

Cole moves to Swept Track and Field Club

Published:Sunday | October 19, 2025 | 12:13 AMRobert Bailey - Gleaner Writer
From left: Serena Cole, Tia Clayton, and Shashalee Forbes compete in a women’s 100m event at the Gibson McCook Relays inside the National Stadium in February.
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From left: Serena Cole, Tia Clayton, and Shashalee Forbes compete in a women’s 100m event at the Gibson McCook Relays inside the National Stadium in February.

FORMER WORLD Under-20 100-metre silver medallist Serena Cole has left the MVP Track Club and has joined the Swept Track and Field Club ahead of the 2026 season.

The Gleaner has been reliably informed that Cole, the former Edwin Allen standout, has been training at the UWI-based Swept under the guidance of the club’s head coach, Okeile Stewart.

However, several calls to Stewart’s mobile phone for a comment on the matter went unanswered.

Cole is set to train alongside World Under-20 400m hurdles record holder, Roshawn Clarke.

The 21-year-old Clarke made the final of the event at the Olympic Games in Paris last summer, where he stumbled over the final hurdle and did not finish the race.

Cole, who will enter the 2026 season as a third-year professional athlete, has a personal best time of 11.13 seconds in the 100m. The versatile athlete also boasts a personal best effort of 6.36m in the long jump. She was a member of Jamaica’s 4x100m relay teams that set World Under-20 records in 2021 and 2022.

Those teams also included her former Edwin Allen teammates Tina and Tia Clayton, who are both training at the MVP Track Club. Tina won the silver medal in the women’s 100m at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, last month.