Dr. Jacqueline P. James-Lyttle inducted into US Coast Guard
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Caribbean Life, JANUARY 14-20, 2022 31
By Nelson A. King
The United States Coast
Guard Academy (USCGA) has
inducted Vincentian national
Dr. Jacqueline “Jackie” James-
Lyttle along with five other
new members into its Athletic
Hall of Fame during the academy’s
Hall of Fame Banquet.
The New London, Conn.-
based academy said that Dr.
James-Lyttle, an All-American
track star, and baseball player
Chuck Arena, the Bears’ alltime
hit leader with 169, were
inducted, along with All-American
swimmer Bobby Brown
and Al Sowers, who led the
men’s basketball team to the
Elite 8 in 2008, and American
football standout Al Thompson,
a member of the US Coast
Guard National Collegiate Athletic
Association (NCAA) football
team.
Women’s basketball’s alltime
leading scorer and
rebounder Melissa Martinelli,
who was selected in 2019, but
could not make the ceremony,
was also inducted in 2021,
USCGA said.
“This is a remarkable slate of
inductees from top to bottom,
and their athletic accomplishments
resonate on a national
level,” said Dr. Dan Rose,
USCGA Director of Athletics.
USCGA said that Dr. James-
Lyttle was a two-time All-American
on the track, earning the
honor during the indoor season
in 1999 in the 100 meters
before placing second in the 55
meters during the 2000 indoor
season.
She holds the school record
in the 100 meters outdoors
(12.22) and previously held
Coast Guard Academy records
in the 55, 100 and 200 meters.
The Coast Guard Academy
said James-Lyttle was a school
record holder on two relays
when she graduated, and was
the 2000 New England 100-
meter champion.
She also won the Eastern
College Athletic Conference
(ECAC) Award for scholarship
and athletic prowess.
USCG said that when James-
Lyttle arrived at the academy
for “swab summer” in 1996,
from St. Vincent and the Grenadines,
as an international
cadet, little was known about
her prior to her arrival.
During her four-year collegiate
athletic career, USCG said
she won numerous track and
field awards and honors.
She was awarded the Women’s
Auxiliary Fleet Award for
greatest impact on varsity athletics
by a female cadet at the
Coast Guard Academy; the
Eastern College Athletic Conference
Award for scholarship
and athletic prowess; the United
States Coast Guard Academy
Coaches Award for outstanding
contributions in women’s
indoor track; and the United
States Coast Guard Academy
Athletic Association Monogram
Award for outstanding
participation in women’s outdoor
track; in addition to earning
the title of All American in
Track and Field in both 1999
and 2000.
Dr. Rose said this list of
awards is rarely collected by a
single athlete.
He said James-Lyttle held
the school record in the 200-
meter dash, with a time of
26.20, until it was finally broken
this year, and continues
to hold the outdoor 100-meter
record of 12.22 from 1999.
In addition to her outstanding
student athletic career, Dr.
James-Lyttle excelled academically.
She was an outstanding civil
engineering student; and, in
2000, was the first Black female
engineering graduate from the
USCGA, where she earned her
Bachelor of Science degree in
civil engineering (Summa Cum
Laude), Rose said.
Continuing to further her
education after accomplishing
this milestone, she attended
the University of Miami and
received her Master of Science
in architectural engineering
and a Ph. D. in civil and architectural
engineering from the
same university.
Vincentian Dr. Jacqueline
James-Lyttle inducted
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