Jamaica’s Audra Segree is seeking to make history once more as she attempts to be the first Jamaican female skeleton athlete to qualify for the Winter Olympics.
Segree already etched her name in the record books when she qualified as a member of Jamaica’s first ever female team to compete in the women’s bobsleigh competition at the 2018 Winter Games.
The former Holmwood Technical high school standout started her athletics career as a sprinter.
She contested the 100 and 200 metres for the Manchester based school at the ISSA Boys and Girls athletics championships, before going on the wear the national colours at the Commonwealth Games and at the CAC Games.
Already recognized as Jamaica’s first female skeleton athlete in history, her mission is now to be Jamaica’s first female skeleton athlete to qualify for the Olympics.
She says the COVID-19 pandemic which is hampering her preparation is like something out of Hollywood.
Adura Segree.
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