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St. John’s, Winfer Gardens maintain supremacy on final day

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).

Brickdam’s Ianna Graham blows away her opponents in the U-16 200m yesterday at the GCC ground, Bourda in the North District Champion of Champions. (Lawrence Fanfair Photo)

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.

Arenze Chance finishes the U-14 100m in style and he props his vest to celebrate one of his three victories. (Lawrence Fanfair Photo)

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’.

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4 Responses to “St. John’s, Winfer Gardens maintain supremacy on final day”

jamel
on October 11th, 2008 9:09 am

I am very proud of these athletes. every year they seem to be stepping up their performance. However, they can only continue to progress if the right facilities and proper management is made available.

I could recall the PPP/C government promising the Guyanese people an all weather athletic facility for Track and field. But somehow there has been no plans or even an effort to locate the correct piece of land for such a project.

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dwayne
on October 11th, 2008 12:29 pm

I am elated that my former school is doing so well. Go St. John’s. Congratulations to all the athletes on their performances. Represent Georgetown well.

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gtalltheway
on October 11th, 2008 2:38 pm

Congrats to all of the athletes and teachers and other personnel who supported this event. Even though these competitions are no way up to standard in facilitating the development of athletes they do provide some competition for athletes to wet their beak so to speak.
The private sector could do more in tune of sponsorship not only in prize money but also in funding for improvement in facilities and equipment. Most of these schools have school boards with members who can help in this area as far as equipting the schools with basic facilities to start with.
while some schools already have some infracstructure in place like the Saint Stanislaus College and Queens College, the boards of these schools could do much more in order to make these schools more competitive in sports.
I.m surprised that Saint Stanislaus did so poorly in this event. This school has a wealth of resources at their disposal hence this poor showing needs to be investigated by the stakeholders of this school.

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clyde gibson
on October 13th, 2008 2:54 pm

I m dissopointed in the big school such as my old school BHS Where i was star athlete for bhs and Guyana

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