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From:TheBahamasWeekly.com Sports
There are several Cafita medalists as well as the Austin Sealy Award winner Anthonique Strachan from BTC 2011 Team Bahamas participating.
Last year the BAAA offered an incentive
of travel, room and board to the teams that won the Boys and Girls Under-20
4x100m relay and 4x400m relays in the
Scotiabank National High School
Track and Field Championships. This year they have continued the
incentive. .
The teams that won this year are St.
Augustine’s College Girls in the 4x100m and 4x400m, and Moores Island
All Age School Boys in the 4x100m and 4x400m.
This year some of the funding was derived
from the sponsorship of various relays at the
Scotiabank National
High School Track and Field Championships.
Additional schools have decided to
attend this prestigious relay carnival, taking care of their own expenses.
They are St. John’s College, Queen’s College, and CI Gibson.
These are the schools that the BAAA
is aware of as well as the athletes and events they are competing in:
Moores Island:
4x100m and 4x400m, Boys Nicholas Roberts, Peron Davis, Antion Davis
Elroy McBride, and Laron Heild, Trevon Greene
St. Augustine’s College:
4x100m, 4x400m, Girls Devynne Charlton, Shaunae Miller Courtney Thompson, Anthonique Strachan
Ashley Johnson, and Rachante Colebrooke Long Jump- Danielle Gibson
Triple Jump- Antonique Butler
The Girls Under-20
4x100m relay was sponsored by RBC.
The Girls Under-20
4x400m relay was sponsored by BSI Trust.
The Boys Under-20 4x100m
relay was sponsored by RBC.
And the Boys Under-200
4x400m relay was sponsored by Harry B. Sands, Lobosky & Co.
The other teams participating
are:
St. John’s
College- 4x400m Boys Stephen Newbold, Desmond Major
Duran Ching, and Anthony Adderley
Coaches- Herbert Brown and Tonique Williams-Darling
Queen’s
College- Girls 4x100m Katrina Taylor Printassia Johnson Monalisa Taylor And
Randi Hilton
400m Hurdles- Katrina Seymour CI Gibson- High Jump- Ryan Ingraham
Coach- James Rolle High School teams from the Caribbean have been attending the Penn Relays for quite a long time. Understanding the importance of exposing our High School athletes to additional competition, the BAAAA has spearheaded this project, which has reaped dividends for the country through scholarships awarded.
Team personnel are: Manager- Laura Pratt Charlton Coach- Dianne Woodside Chaperones- Coach-Pastor Anthony Williams And,
Debbie Smith
USA vs The World
The USA Track and Field
Federation has invited the Bahamas Men’s 4x400m relay team to participate.
The team consists of Chris Brown, Andrae Williams, Ramon Miller, Michael
Mathieu, and Andretti Bain.
The Bahamas has done
well in this event in the past.
The coach is Tyrone
Burrows.
Over the years there
have been numerous Bahamians who participated in the Penn Relays, from
Charley Major at St. Bonaventure in the nineteen twenties, to Demetrius
Pinder at Texas A& M and Sheniqua Ferguson at Auburn University
last year. At the High School level Dudley Moxey from Aquinas won the Triple Jump back in 1971. Last year Nejmi Burnside from St. Andrews won the 400m hurdles.
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