Guyanese middle-distance student athlete Joanna Archer will be ‘romping with the big ones’ in the new semester, when she enters the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) circuit following her full scholarship acceptance to Texas Tech in the United States.
Guyanese Joanna Archer sealed the deal with Texas Tech President Mark Jerome on Wednesday. She was accompanied by her coach, Shirvon Greene
Archer, who has been balancing athletics and studies in the USA since 2018 at Monroe College, New York, is said to have been outstanding in her two years there, both on the track and with her books. In fact, Archer has rewritten the 500M and 600M records at the National Junior Collegiate Association (NJCAA) level.
Coupled with an almost perfect GPA over the course of 2019 (reading for an associate degree in criminal justice) the 19-year-old was able to catch the eye of several NCAA institutions in the United States.
After deep consideration between top notch schools like Texas Tech, Clemson and University of Texas El Paso (UTEP), Archer settled on Texas Tech to compete in the NCAA circuit and read for her degree in Criminology.
With a number of CARIFTA and National Schools Championships’ medals to her credit, the former student of Winfer Gardens Primary and West Demerara Secondary has some more notable achievements; like her 800M and 4X400M silver medals at the South American Youth Championships back in 2017.
