Come visit Saint Lucia: Noah Lyles’ mum vacations in beautiful Caribbean country, praises Julien Alfred’s birth home

Last updated: September 14, 2024 9:32 pm

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Noah Lyles mum Keisha Caine Bishop is in Saint Lucia due to a promise to Julien Alfred over a year ago and has encouraged everyone to visit the beautiful Caribbean country.

Come visit Saint Lucia: Noah Lyles’ mum vacations in beautiful Caribbean country, praises Julien Alfred’s birth home, Keisha Caine Bishop, mother of Olympic and World 100m champion Noah Lyles has nothing but beautiful words to say about Saint Lucia, the home country of blazing women’s sprint star Julien Alfred.

Lyles’ mum is vacationing in Saint Lucia, due to her promise to Alfred over a year ago, while the newly crowned Olympic champion was still a college student at the University of Texas.

Bishop met Alfred at the 2023 NCAA Championships after Alfred powered to the 100m and 200m titles, and promised that she would visit Saint Lucia, and a little over a year later, she is on the Island.

In a video filmed at Vigie Beach and posted to her Instagram page, Caine Bishop encouraged everyone to add Saint Lucia to their travel bucket list.

Saint Lucia’s star Julien Alfred ended her season with a perfect victory to win the Diamond League title in Brussels, as Sha’Carri Richardson surprisingly finished eighth.

“Hi everybody, today I’m in Saint Lucia! I am so excited to be here,” she said in the video raising the Saint Lucian flag.

“This is my first time here, and I got intrigued last year when now Olympic gold medallist in the 100 meters Julien Alfred won the NCAA championship and they said she was from Saint Lucia. And I said ‘Hm, which is Saint Lucia? I want to go visit,” Bishop added.

“So, Julien, I told you I was coming to your country. I finally made it. I’m at the beach, it’s so pretty and I love your country. Everybody should come to visit. That’s the cool part about track and field. You get to see people run from all over the world and then you get to decide if you want to visit or not. Enjoy! Have a great day, everybody, and come visit Saint Lucia.”

Bishop is a former track athlete who performed brilliantly during her college days. She is a nine-time All-American and a member of two 4×400 NCAA champion relay teams.