If Kadecia Baird and Sheniece Daphness had been running for elected office, they surely would’ve been buoyed by the lobbying of a diplomat who knows a bit about running a government office.
During a courtesy call, last Thursday, the young Guyanese athletes were spongy on gleaming commendations from their country’s chief officer of consular services in New York, Brentnol Evans. And, the track stars from Medgar Evers Prep High School and Middle Tennessee State University were not short on being absorbent.
“It’s a nice experience. I never thought before I’d ever meet such a dignitary, but it was uplifting,” blushed Daphness, the garrulous of the two starlettes, and a product of Linden, like Evans. The diminutive sprinter and her taller,
