Lamara Distin on Friday (February 11) cleared 1.92 metres to win the women’s high jump competition at the Don Kirby Elite Indoor meet at the Albuquerque Convention Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

With the clearance, the Hanover native broke Maresa Cadienhead’s record of 1.90m set in Boston back in March 2002. Distin’s mark is also the best in the NCAA so far this season.

The new record was on the cards for Distin after she opened her indoor season last December when she cleared 1.86m at the Woo Pig Classic in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The mark was just four centimetres off her personal best of 1.90 set last season.

Motivated by that performance, Distin told Sportsmax TV that she put in a lot of hard work in the pre-season.

“I have been training really hard because I know what I want to accomplish this track season, therefore, new exercises have been incorporated into my training,” she said then.

“I am working on specific areas of my jumps that hindered me last track season from going high bars, so I definitely believe with the help of my coach and his training I will fix that.”

Nevada’s Iesha Hamm finished in second place with her best jump of 1.83m, while Oregon State’s Emma Nelson cleared 1.78m for third.

Distin just missed out on clearing 1.95m at the meet, but will be hoping to overcome that height soon as she harbours ambitions of making Jamaica’s team to the World Athletic Championships in Eugene, Oregon this July, as well as the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England in June.