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From:TheBahamasWeekly.com Sports
This partnership
also entails Friday and Saturday’s Carifta Trials being named the
BTC 2011 Carifta Trials.
Some of the benefits that BTC will
accrue include but not limited to the following:
1. BTC may provide products and
market services with collateral materials to patrons at the Trials and
Games, where permissible.
2. BAAA Friends of Carifta: BTC
will have the right to sponsor the travel Tee Shirts worn by the athletes,
coaches, and officials traveling with the Bahamas Carifta Games Team
to Montego Bay, Jamaica.
3. BTC’s logo will be displayed
prominently on team travel uniform Tee shirts.
It is also our pleasure to thank
the Ministry of Youth, Sports & Culture for their support of the
Carifta programme.
We thank the media for their assistance
in heightening the public’s awareness of and appreciation for Track
and Field.
The BTC Carifta Trials is expected
to be quite exciting and competitive. The BAAA has
made the admission fee quite affordable
for families with $3 General admission and $10 VIP. There is no admission
for children under 12.
The meet starts at 5:00pm on Friday
and 3:00pm on Saturday.
Pg 2
Some of the matchups we anticipate
seeing this weekend are: Under 20 Boys 200m- Trevoravano Mackey 21.19sec Gold in Nationals; Stephen Newbold 21.19sec in earlier meet.
Laron Hield, Moore’s Island, 21.34sec in Nationals. Under 20 Boys 400m- OJay Ferguson, 47.65sec, broke
World Indoor Champion Chris Brown’s fourteen year old
Record
of 48.02sec. Andre Well’s Grand Bahama, second in Nationals On Carifta Games and Jr. CAC Teams in 2010.
47.89sec, second in Nationals. Stephen Newbold, third in Nationals. Best time of
47.80sec earlier this season. Under 17 Boys 100m- Tommy Outten from Grand Bahama, 10.85sec Rashad Gibson, 10.89sec
Standard-
11.00sec Under 17 Boys Long Jump Trae Carey 6.68m Darien Duncombe 6.48m Mark Duncombe 6.45m
Standard- 6.45m Under 20 Girls – 200m Anthonique Strachan 23.17sec Broke Debbie Ferguson’s record of 23.68sec done in 1994. Best time in the world for Juniors this year. Shares that distinction with Grand Bahama native Tynia Gaither who attends Osceola High School in Kissimee,
Florida. Rashan Brown, Grand Bahama, best time of 23.76sec
2010
Pg 3 Under 20 Girls- 400m Shaunae Miller, 53.26sec Broke Vernetta Rolle’s fourteen year old Record of 53.86sec.
2010 World Junior Champion
Rashan Brown, fourth in Singapore’s Youth
Olympics with 53.76sec. Under 17 Girls- 100m Devynne Charlton, 12.08sec Nationals Champion Carmeisha Cox, 12.14sec, second place
Standard- 12.10sec
From the information emanating out
of Jamaica, our Carifta host, it is understood that they will let
“No Gold Medal Leave”, meaning that Jamaica will win every gold
medal, with total domination of the event. With this in mind we are
encouraging the Bahamian public to support the team by traveling to
the Games over the Easter weekend. Packages are still available.
We are also encouraging persons involved in Junkanoo
groups to join the “Carifta Congos” who bring a special flare to
the Games in their support of Team Bahamas.
The BAAA will provide a number of
prizes for fans, and on Saturday will raffle two round trip tickets
to Montego Bay for the Games.
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Nassau, Bahamas - Following the very successful Scotiabank
National High School Track and Field Championships, the Bahamas Association
of Athletic Associations is happy to announce today that BTC
has been named Title Partner of the 2011 Carifta Team Bahamas.