{"id":273033,"date":"2026-06-21T09:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T09:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/273033\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T09:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T09:08:15","slug":"brooklyn-taylor-earns-spot-on-team-canada-for-world-u20-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/273033\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Taylor Earns Spot on Team Canada for World U20 Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STORRS, CT &#8211; UConn rising sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/uconnhuskies.com\/sports\/womens-track-and-field\/roster\/brooklyn-taylor\/15367\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15367\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Taylor<\/a> competed at the 2026 Canadian U20 Track &amp; Field Championships at Terry Fox Athletic Facility in Ottawa, Ontario over the weekend and took home a pair of medals as well as earning a spot on for Team Canada at the World U20 Championships in August.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Alliston, Ontario native set a new personal best time in the 100m hurdles on Saturday night, clocking in at 13.36 seconds to finish second in the event, claiming a silver medal as well as a spot on Team Canada. Taylor will next compete in the event at the 2026 World Athletics U20 Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, OR on August 5-9.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday night, Taylor won the gold medal in the long jump, besting the field with a leap of 5.84m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STORRS, CT &#8211; UConn rising sophomore Brooklyn Taylor competed at the 2026 Canadian U20 Track &amp; Field Championships&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-273033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}