Food For The Poor (FFP) Jamaica has announced middle distance runner Natoya Goule as the latest Ambassador for the charity.

Marsha Burrell-Rose, FFP Jamaica’s marketing and development manager, said the organisation was delighted to welcome the athlete to its Ambassador ranks.

“In addition to being a model of consistent excellence on the track, and a model of deportment in representing Jamaica, Natoya has shown a heart towards helping others and an understanding of the importance of giving back when you have been blessed. We are so pleased to confirm this partnership, and look forward to bringing even greater prominence to our diverse community outreach.”

Goule, for her part, said Food For The Poor was an organisation whose mission and values were in alignment with her own.

“I believe in diversity and inclusiveness in meeting the material and spiritual needs of the less fortunate,” she said. 

A product of Manchester, where she represented the Manchester High School, Goule established herself in athletics from an early age, and amassed numerous medals and records at the secondary level.

She went on to attend South Plains College in Texas, United States, representing their track team. She moved on to Louisiana State University, representing the renowned LSU Tigers track team. She would thereafter transfer to Clemson (also named the Tigers). In 2014, she was a member of Jamaica’s women’s 4×400 relay team which won the silver medal at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships, and was most recently a finalist in the 800 metres at the Tokyo Olympics. She has a personal best of 51.52 in the 400 metres and 1.56.15 in the 800.

Goule joins previously named Ambassadors, Jamaican international footballer Leon Bailey and Olympic sprinter Yohan Blake.