Athletics review 2017 part 2 Districts 10 retain schools’ championships

Jan 18, 2018 Sports, https://www.kaieteurnewsonline...hools-championships/

After not being utilised for two years since its commission by the organising committee of the National Schools’ championships, the National Track and Field Centre (NTFC) was finally used to host the 57th edition of the National Schools’ Championships’ Track and Field arm. The event was run off in a collaborative effort between the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU), Ministry of Education (MOE) and the Athletics’ Association of Guyana (AAG).
District 10 (Upper Demerara/Kwakwani), who were crowned champions of the 57th National Schools’ cycling, swimming and track & field championships for the third consecutive year and 16th overall, continued their dominance in the track and field arm of the six-day event.
In District 10’s victorious track and field campaign, World Junior 400m silver medalist Daniel Williams, broke the under-18 boys’ 100m, 200m and 400m records to be adjudged under-18 champion boy. After his successes on the world stage earlier in the year, Williams, was expected to better the 400m race at least and he did so, in addition to the other two sprint races he competed in.
South America Junior Championships Gold medalist, Chantoba Bright of the champions District 10, was tied with Joanna Archer of District 3 (West Demerara) for the under-18 champion girl award.
Bright won the long, triple and high jump events, while finishing second behind co-under-20 champion girl Joanna Archer in U-18 400m. Archer won the 400m, 800m and 1500m events.
District 10’s Deshanna Skeete was scintillating in the girls’ under-16 category, winning three gold medals, while breaking two records in the three races that she competed in. She won the 100m, 200m in a record 24.97seconds time and the 400m in a record time of 57.96 seconds.
CARIFTA Games and South American Junior championships silver medalist Anfernee Headecker was phenomenal in the three races he competed in, and capped off the 2017 season well. Headecker dominated the under-20 middle distances (800m & 1500m) while destroying the field in the 5000m.
District four’s (East Coast Demerara) aim of leaving a lasting impression was successful and President’s college’s Angelina Barclay helped that when she broke the girls’ under-16 triple jump record after leaping to an impressive 11.69m breaking the 11-year-old record set by Roxanne Rigby of District 15.