Kadecia Baird is Guyanese.
She is also the second fastest 400m female junior competitor in the World this year and her silver medal performance at the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) World Junior Championships in Barcelona Spain in July was where she made her talent known to the world.
World Junior Champion Ashley Spencer will be a senior competitor next year so Baird, who is just 17-years old, will enter 2013 as the number-one ranked junior quarter miler in the world.
While this is an enormous feat for
