Yesterday at the Georgetown Cricket Club ground, Bourda, St. John’s College and Winfer Gardens Primary School claimed the North Georgetown District title on the final day in the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) organized Champion of Champions track and field competition.
Winfer Gardens Primary School ran away with the pole position in the Primary Schools category with 134 points ahead of St. Andrews (119), North Georgetown (108), St. Augstine (98), St. Margaret’s (89), St Ambrose (87) and St. Agnes (77).
St. John’s College crushed the competition in the Secondary Schools category as they finished first with a mammoth 337 points, way ahead of Queen’s College and Richard Ishmael who finished second and third with 173.5 and 173 points respectively.
Government Technical Institute (GTI), St. Stanislaus College and Kingston Community High occupied the next three positions with 156, 130.5 and 118 points while St. Mary’s, Brickdam Secondary, Christ Church Secondary, Bishops High, International Business College, The Business School and St. Roses High followed in that order.
This is the completion of the first phase of the North District preparation to defend their title in the annual school National Schools track and field and cycling championships which they won yesteryear at the Providence National Stadium.
The four-day event which concluded yesterday is used to select the team that will compete in this year’s Schools National Championships which is billed for November.
Yesterday’s meet was drenched with a lot of heart-stopping events which included upsets and pleasurable victories.
Carlwyn Collins of Queen’s College, who enjoyed a terrific run in 2007for North District at the Champion of Champions and School Nationals meets where he broke the 200 and 400m records at the under-16 category, has secured his spot on this year’s team.
Collins was the victor in the Boys U-20 200m and 400m yesterday, and he produced the largest upset of the day when he defeated GTI’s Phillip Drayton in the 400m in a time of 50.50 seconds.
GTI’s Triston Joseph and Nadine Rodrigues were named the fastest man and woman in the district when they won the male and female U-20 100m respectively.
Rodrigues also won the U-20 female 200m but finished second to Shauna Thornhill in the 400m.
Bishops’ Arenze Chance and Brickdam’s Ianna Graham completed a clean sweep in the U-14 and U-16 100m, 200m and 400m to head once more for the `Nationals’ while Devon ‘Scoobay’ Barrington of St John’s booked his spot on the bus with victories in the boys’ U-20 800m and 1500m. He also placed second in the 5000m.
Siddiqua Shabazz who competed for St. John’s won the girls’ U-14 800 and 1500m. She also finished second in the 400m and will make her first appearance at the `Nationals’.
