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Ex-CIAA star is world champ

Fred Jeter | 9/7/2023, 6 p.m.
Danielle Williams has put the CIAA back on the world track and field map.
Danielle Williams

Danielle Williams has put the CIAA back on the world track and field map.

A graduate of Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, Williams won the 100-meter hurdles two weeks ago at the World Games in Budapest.

A native of St. Andrew, Jamaica, the 30-year-old Williams represented her native country in Hungary.

Her winning time was 12.43. In 2015, she won the same event at the World competition in Beijing, China. She was the bronze medalist in the hurdles at the 2019 Worlds in Doha, Qatar.