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Well folks I wish I could tell you more about this but I was not there and I have no idea who won. I went out the night of the event and came back late. So I did not go.

Athletics training

In the run up to Interschool sports 4 special track meet/sessions were held at the school where the athletes were able to train on the field in their various events with athletes from other schools. Events were held on December 17, 2005, January 7, 2006 and February 4 , 2006. Pictured below is the final session held in the hall on March 4.

Here the athletes are given brief advise by Miss Teshia Hinds and Miss Dianne Forte on how to present themselves and respond when talking to media personnel.	Present for the session and giving the athletes a serious talk on achieving your best was Ambassador and Special Envoy to the Youth of Barbados, Mr. Obadele Thompson.
Here students practice interviewing each other in the session with Miss Diane Forte and Teshia Hinds.	Present at the Track meet in February was Mr. Obadele Thompson

The athletes were also given a lecture by Wayne Waltross earlier who spoke on the more technical side of athletics, which included techniques in finding your starting foot.

Interschool Sports

We placed 15th, in the girls. The boys were significantly further down. Springer won as they have for the last couple years. Some attribute it to good food, others to the constant training the students get at Springer. Details below. The girls did extremely well, with one student setting a new record and others becoming national division champions in their event.

All Articles below were taken from the Nation Newspaper.

Burgess well armed for javelin

by EZRA STUART

PRINCESS MARGARET SCHOOL has a javelin prince.

Ramon Burgess scaled the heights at the National Stadium yesterday when he threw the javelin an amazing 63.34 metres, well past the halfway line of the football field to set a new record in the boys' Under-17 event.

Burgess' tremendous throw was the highlight on Day 1 of the Barbados Secondary Schools Athletic Championships which ended with defending girls queens Springer Memorial and Christ Church Foundation sharing the lead with 17 points after three field event finals.

Alleyne School, on the strength of Rashid Trotman's victory in the Under-13 high jump and third place by schoolmate Iryah Stowe-Marshall, jumped to an early lead after two field events in the boys section with 16 points.

But the star of the day, which stretched right up to 7 p.m., was the 15-year-old Burgess, who won the gold medal at last year's CARIFTA Games in Tobago.

"I feel proud about my feat. There wasn't any pressure on me but I wanted to throw 66 metres so I am a bit disappointed," the 6 ft, 4 in, College Land, St John resident told NATIONSPORT.

Asked about his ambitions, Burgess, who threw 63.46 metres at last Sunday's National Junior Championships said: "I want to go to the 2012 Olympics. That will give me more time to get better."

His performance did not surprise Princess Margaret's coach Ricky Carter, who has been working with him along with Wesley Browne of his club, Track and Field Academy.

"We know that he has even more than 63 metres inside of him because from seeing him doing certain things at training, we recognise that he can throw anyway between 65 and 70 metres and he should be able to do it between CARIFTA and CAC (Central American and Caribbean) Games," Carter said.

St James' Trevor Ifill got silver with 54.64 metres, a CARIFTA Games qualifying distance, while Rachad Forde (52.02) took the bronze. Lester Vaughan's hurdler Kierre Beckles showed her versatility, winning the Under-17 girls' long jump with a leap of 5.45 metres from The Lodge School's sprinter Mara Weekes (5.20) and The St Michael's Tamisha Flatts (5.00).

Shadir Greene of Springer Memorial was the gold medallist in the Under-20 girls long jump, landing 5.63 metres into the sand pit. Karessa Farley of Queen's College (5.38) and Alleyne's Kamillah Burke (5.11) got the silver and bronze.

Foundation's first-former Ashley Roberts sailed over the bar at 1.35 metres for Under-13 girls' high jump glory from St James' Ericka Griffith (1.30) and Coleridge and Parry's Eureka Goodridge (1.30).

In the preliminaries, amateur boxer Keithland King of Parkinson, fresh from a gold medal bout in the David Bryan Memorial card last month, delivered a knockout punch to his opponents in the Under-20 boys' 1 500 metres heat with a strong run.

Latoya Griffith of Alleyne School had a busy day, competing in three events, the 300 metres hurdles, 400 and 1500 metres while Beckles moved from the sandpit to the track and won her 100 and 300 metres hurdles heats.

The Lodge's Sade Sealy (59.51 seconds) and Kemar Norgrove (52.14 seconds) were the fastest qualifiers in the

Under-17 girls' and boys' 400 metres.

Ellerslie's Debarge Carrington (49.30) was quicker than schoolmate Jerry-Lee Davis (51.12) and Lester Vaughan's Dario Alleyne (51.13) who cruised past the line together in their Under-20 heat while Greene (59.33) had the fastest time for the senior girls.

CARIFTA hurdlers Ryan M. Brathwaite of Lester Vaughan, Farley, and Harrison College's Kimberley Stanford all won their heats comfortably in the Under-20 division. Another Harrisonian, Tyrell Forde, was the fastest junior boy while Springer Memorial twins Kyshona Knight and Kycia Knight were the fastest over the hurdles among the junior girls.

ezrastuart@nationnews.com

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Springer lead, boys do battle

by SHERRYLYN A. CLARKE

FOR THE SECOND TIME in three days, a javelin record was shattered at the Barbados Secondary Schools' Athletics Championships as Springer Memorial girls moved to a virtually unassailable lead, but the boys' title is up for grabs.

First it was Ramon Burgess, and yesterday 14-year-old Deandra Dottin of St James Secondary had a personal best 45.38 metres in the Under-17 Girls' javelin to eclipse Kyann Maynard's 41.94 metres which has stood for two years.

"I said I was going for the record, and I got it," Dottin said. "I feel good. I knew I was going to get it. I want to go to China and I have to throw 49.50 metres. Between now and the CARIFTA Games, I think I can get it."

She was referring to the World Junior Championships which will be held in Beijing from August 15 to 20.

Dottin, a silver medalist at the last CARIFTA Games, has her eyes firmly set on a javelin gold medal and enhanced it with that performance, improving on the 39.08 metres from National Juniors last weekend. She only started training seriously a week-and- a-half ago.

But Sheldon Roach of Harrison College is not as happy. Having already thrown 45.06 metres this year, the Under-20 Boys' record of 43.06 was his for the taking. After producing 42 metres (standing throw), his very first attempt, Roach fouled the next five with the spin, but it was still good enough to get him the gold medal ahead of Princess Margaret's Dwayne Rice (39.37), and Rohan Gill (39.00), of the Lester Vaughan School.

The very first event, the Boys' Open 5000 metres was won by Christian Rock of Coleridge and Parry in 16 minutes 55.43 seconds, with training partner Jason Wilson of The St Michael School second in 17:10.61, and gold medal boxer Keithland King flying the Parkinson flag high, taking bronze in 17:43.17.

Princess Margaret's Jamar Maynard, who got off the bus last year and ran all the way to the National Stadium, had to settle for fifth place behind St Lucy's Dario Burnham.

"It feels great," Rock said. "I made the CARIFTA team [in the 3000 metres] and now I beat Jamar. I feel good."

He credited coach Leo Garnes for the "hard training runs" which included 200, 400 and 800 metres repetitions, along with hour-long and 40-minute runs.

In other finals Sabrina Applewaithe of Foundation won the Under-15 Girls' long jump; Combermere's Dawn-Marie Layne was ecstatic with her win in the Girls' Open triple jump; Daniel Burke of Harrison College won the Under-17 Boys' high jump, while the Under-20 gold went to Thorrold Mason of Ellerslie. 

At the end of Day 3, the combined Springer Memorial Girls' team continues to amaze, jumping to 121 points, clearly in a class by themselves, en route to another title.

Defending boys' champions Harrison College maintain a 30-point lead on Alleyne School with 87.2 points again picking up valuable points in the field events. However, based on those who have advanced out of the heats, this section is wide open.

The final two days will begin in earnest next Tuesday after the 9 a.m. opening ceremony.

RESULTS AT A GLANCE:

Abbreviations: 

HC - Harrison College; AX - Alexandra; QC - Queen's College; EL - Ellerslie; SPR - Springer Memorial; SJS - St James Secondary; SMS - The St Michael School; LS - The Lodge School; AL - The Alleyne School; PM - Princess Margaret Secondary, CCFS - Christ Church Foundation, PAR - Parkinson, CS - Combermere, LVS - The Lester Vaughan School, CP - Coleridge and Parry, BIS - Barbados Independent Schools.

Senior Boys 5000 Metres

1. Christian Rock (CP) 16 minutes 55.43 seconds, 2. Jason Wilson (SMS) 17:10.61, 3. Keithland King (PAR) 17:43.17

Under-15 Girls' Long Jump

1. Sabrina Applewaithe (CCFS) 5.10 metres, Kycia Knight (SPR) 5.04m, 3. Cheyenne Stewart (SMS) 4.92m

Under-15 Boys' Shot Put

1. Jonathan Harper (EL) 12.05 metres, 2. Matthew Griffith (SJS) 11.90m, 3. Tre Simmons (CS) 11.76m

Under-20 Girls' Discus

1. Daina James (LVS) 31.55 metres, 2. Shumera Weekes (QC) 28.77m, 3. Stacia Payne (QC) 28.29m

Under-20 Boys' High Jump

1. Thorrold Murray (EL) 1.91 metres, 2. Shane Bowen (SLB) 1.91m, 3. Kirk Austin (QC) 1.91m

Under-13 Girls' Long Jump

1. Ashley Roberts (CCFS) 4.50 metres, 2. Eureka Goodridge (CP) 4.46m, 3. Ashley Murphy (LVS) 4.44m

Under-15 Girls' Shot Put

1. Kyshona Knight (SPR) 8.54 metres, 2. Melissa Gittens (LS) 8.45m, 3. Jeneice Clarke (SPR) 8.27m

Under-20 Boys' Discus

1. Sheldon Roach (HS) 42.00 metres, 2. Dwayne Rice (PM) 39.37m, 3. Rohan Gill (LVS) 39.00m

Under-17 Girls' Javelin (RECORD)

1. Deandra Dottin (SJS) 45.38 metres, 2. Nadia Rose-Hinds (SMS) 36.50m, 3. Jacinda Ifill (SMS) 33.16m

Under-17 Boys' High Jump

1. Daniel Burke (HC) 1.85 metres, 2. Kareen Bennett (BIS) 1.78m, 3. David Sandiford (HC) 1.78m

Open Girls' Triple Jump

1. Dawn-Marie Layne (CS) 11.58 metres, 2. Christina Gustave (CP) 11.41m, 3. Kelia Elliott (SPR) 11.20m

Points at the end of Day 3:

Girls: Springer Memorial 121 points, Christ Church Foundation 46, The Lodge School 45, The Lester Vaughan School 38, The St Michael School 37, Coleridge and Parry 36, Queen's College 35, St James Secondary 31, Harrison College 30, The Alleyne School 28, Garrison Secondary 16, Combermere 15, Alexandra 13, Grantley Adams Memorial 5, Princess Margaret 5, Parkinson Memorial 4, Ellerslie 2.

Boys: Harrison College 87.2 points, The Alleyne School 57, The Lodge School 47.2, St James Secondary 46, Garrison Secondary 43, Princess Margaret 40, Ellerslie 37, The St Michael School 35, St Leonard's Boys' 33, Combermere 27.5, The Lester Vaughan School 27, Queen's College 27, Coleridge and Parry 24, Grantley Adams Memorial 12, Parkinson Memorial 10, St George 9, St Lucy 8.2, Barbados Independent Schools 8, Alexandra 3, Deighton Griffith 1.7, Christ Church Foundation 1.2, Louis Lynch Secondary 1.

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'Hot steppers' rule

by EZRA STUART

THE BIG GUNS of schools' track and field fired on all cylinders on the penultimate day of the Powerade/Plus Barbados Secondary Schools Athletic Championships at the National Stadium yesterday, leaving a trail which was too hot to follow.

Springer Memorial, spearheaded by their sprint queen Shadir Greene, have more

than doubled nearest rivals Lodge School (118) as they moved unchallenged towards yet another girls title with a whopping 283 points.

Defending boys kings, Harrison College, courtesy wins by Tyrell Forde and Dane Taitt in the hurdles, and junior boy Ibrahim Hinds' excellent middle distance runs, are on course to repeat, ending the penultimate day on 188.2 points, 50 more than second placed The Lodge.

Four records were broken during an exhilarating day's action in which 38 finals were contested, but crowd favourites Greene and the silky-smooth Dario Alleyne were the ones who really heated up the track with sizzling 400-metre runs.

Foundation's Kyann Maynard threw the javelin to a new mark of 42.70 metres in the Under-20 Girls division, bettering her 2005 mark of 40.65 metres, while Harrison College's Kimberley Stanford also set a new record of 14.60 seconds in the Senior Girls

100-metre hurdles.

While Stanford erased Julie Butcher's 1993 standard of 14.98 seconds, which was also surpassed by silver medallist Karessa Farley (14.73) of Queen's College, her two-year-old 100-metre hurdles record was eclipsed by Lester Vaughan's Kierre

Beckles, who clocked 14.49 seconds.

Beckles, who has already won the long jump and has been saddled with the extra burden of doing the five-event pentathlon, also anchored her school's Under-17 4x100-metre relay team to an exciting victory.

It was the first of three relay triumphs for Lester Vaughan as the Under-17 boys and the Under-20 boys quartet of Dwayne Newsam, Andre Harper, Ryan Brathwaite and Alleyne blitzed their opponents en route to a new record of 42.25 seconds.

The other relay, Senior Girls 4x100-metre, was won by Queen's College with Farley just barely holding off the fast-finishing Greene on Springer's anchor leg.

Earlier, Queen's College's young middle distance princess Krystal Holder (5:27.29) easily won the Junior Girls 1 500 metres, while Harrisonian Hinds outlasted Queen's College's Jerome Stuart and Ellerslie's Jandolph St Clair in the junior boys race.

Coleridge and Parry's Christian Rock continues to showcase his stamina and finishing speed over the distance races, slamming the field in the Under-17 Boys 1 500 metres (4:24.83), while the front-running Alleyne's Latoya Griffith (4:57.92) did likewise among the Under-17 Girls, beating rivals Najuma Comissiong and Sade Sealy.

Sealy (58.48) returned to win her pet 400 metres and schoolmate Kemar Norgrove (50.13) took the Under-17 Boys' equivalent.

Jamar Maynard of Princess Margaret produced a burst of speed over the last 60 metres to pass The Lodge School's front-runner Rommell Martin and take the Senior Boys 1 500 metres in 4:19.33 minutes, while Alexandra's Nakira Downes (5:17.45) convincingly dispatched the opposition in the Senior Girls 1 500 metres for the second straight year.

St Michael's Erica Griffith had a golden day, winning the Under-15 Girls' 800 metres (2:25.67) and upsetting the Springer Memorial twins Kyshona Knight and Kycia Knight in the Junior Girls' 75-metre hurdles. She also got a silver medal in the high jump, which was won by Springer's Brandi Weatherhead (1.55).

But the race which left a buzz in the stands was Alleyne's blistering run in the Senior Boys' 400 metres when he ran away from the field up the back straight and glided home in 48.32 seconds, qualifying for the Easter Carifta Games.

His schoolmate Ryan M. Brathwaite was just as fast and fluent, scaling the Senior Boys 110-metre hurdles in 14.06 seconds while Greene ran away with the Under-20 Girls 100 (12.06) and 400 metres (57.07).

Princess Margaret's Tameka Rawlins clocked 12.22 seconds in winning the Under-17 Girls' 100 metres, while Lester Vaughan's Anthony Rollinswas given the gold medal after the photo-finish camera was needed to separate he and Alexandra's Xavier Roach, who crossed the line together in 11.33 seconds.

The tag of the fastest schoolboy went to Lester Vaughan's Andre Harper (11.24), while Greene dismissed the threat of Queen's College's Shakera Reece with a 12.06

100 metres clocking.

Grantley Adams' Reisha Lorde (26.99) and CP's Shaquille Hollingsworth (26.13) were the 200 metres winners among the Under-13s while Springer's Kiah Bishop (25.88) and Combermere's Natari Wharton (23.60) triumphed among the Under-15s.

While all the action was taking place on the track, St James' Deandra Dottin almost erased Paula Mascoll's 1993 record of 11.55 metres when she tossed the shot put 11.54 metres in the Girls' Under-17 event. Dottin's schoolmate Matthew Griffith (41.27) also won the Under-15 discus throw.

The hard-working Ronson Small of Ellerslie had a winning leap of 6.82 metres in the Senior Boys' long jump, while Harrison College's Daniel Burke stayed on course to win the victor ludorum title for the second straight year with another victory in the Under-17 Boys' triple jump (13.52m).

Some of the other winners were Queen's College's Soraya Toppin-Herbert (2:37.59) and St Leonard's Boys' Davion Layne (2:30.51) in the Under-13 Girls' and Boys' 800 metres while Alexandra's Shaquille Alleyne (2:12.64) won the Under-15 Boys' 800 metres, just holding off Hinds.

ezrastuart@nationnews.com

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SHERRYLYN A. CLARKE

FOR THE SECOND successive year, Springer Memorial and Harrison College were crowned the queens and kings respectively of the Barbados Secondary Schools' Athletics Championships.

Yesterday at the National Stadium, Springer Memorial simply ran away from the rest of the girls with their eighth title in nine years, while it was the third in six years for Harrison College. Both received $2 500 from Sagicor General Insurance for their effort.

With 376.5 points, the girls from Government Hill raised the bar another notch, with their largest ever margin of victory, built on some very strong performances in the field events over the first three days.

"The word I have been using is ecstatic," said Andrea Nichols, head of the physical education (PE) department. "I think the children have lived up to the motto of the PE department, when you believe in yourself, you can achieve. It was a lot of hard work and commitment.

"This is also principal Mrs [Pauline] Benjamin's first year and we are pleased to welcome her with a victory."

Nichols said it was tough on the girls because they had to train at the Pine Basin, which is at least 20 minutes' walk from the school. However, with the wide margin of victory, it looked quite easy.

The Lodge School were second again for the sixth successive year, with 199 points. Harrison College moved from sixth to third with 172 points, their best performance since 1998 when they were second.

Queen's College ended fourth with 170, built on their strong Under-15 and Under-13 division, while The St Michael School came fifth with 156 points, and Lester Vaughan School sixth with 139.5.

"I expected a harder fight this year, closer points, bearing in mind that some athletes left and others moved up a division. I think our Under-15 and Under-20 did the battle for the school," Nicholls said, also praising the rest of the school and PE teachers Sandra Jones, Julie Phillips, who is at the Commonwealth Games, and Rosalie Best.

While there was no disputing the girls' champions from the first day, it was much harder to gauge the boys. In the end, it came down to the relays. Harrison College successfully defended their title with 229.2 points, with The Lodge School jumping to second place on 208.2. Lester Vaughan School moved to third with 168, just seven ahead of the ever improving Ellerslie, who jumped from seventh. Alleyne School was fifth again with 159 points, but more than last year's total.

"It's been a tough five days. We thought we were going to hold on all along," said Harrison College PE teacher Adrian Thorne after receiving a soaking from the jubilant children.

"We had some disappointments on the last day in some of the field events where we should have maximised points and that would have brought The Lodge into the picture.

"The girls were excellent, led by Kimberly Stanford and Kassandra Sandiford and Erin Carter who is an excellent runner. The girls who came into first form were enthusiastic and willing to do well. They were there all through the cross-country season and that enthusiasm spilled over to the whole team," he said.

"It takes an early programme, getting out there and looking at the weaknesses and putting a programme in place. The middle distance was good this year and that was a spillover from cross-country, but we also need to work on our field events."

While pleased with the performance of both teams to be consistently in the Top 3, Clifton Phillips of The Lodge School keeps "reminding the children of the legacy they have to maintain" but he knows it could have been a totally different picture.

"Last Friday was a disaster. Murphy's Law kicked in. Up to that point we were doing better in both than we had done last year, but they recovered well. The Under-17 boys' division was a big improvement, and the Under-20 boys were strong. Those were the key areas, while the Under-17 and Under-15 girls carried the team."

The victrix ludorum title went to Springer Memorial's Shadir Greene for the fourth time with a perfect 40 points, but she shared the title again with Kierre Beckles of Lester Vaughan School. Greene was victorious in the 100 (12.06), 200 (24.65), 400 (57.07) and the long jump with a leap of 5.63 metres.

Beckles won the 100-metre hurdles in a record 14.49 seconds, but also won the Under-17 girls' long jump with 5.45 metres, the 300-metre hurdles in 44.31 seconds, and then came back to win the pentathlon with 2 892 points, despite two bandaged knees and the heavy work load.

Shaquille Hollingsworth of Coleridge and Parry was the victor ludorum with 35 points. Victories in the 100 metres (13.07), 200 (26.13) and the 400 metres (62.20) as well as a fifth place in the Under-13 boys' high jump with a leap of 1.40 metres was enough, putting him just ahead of Harrison College's Daniel Burke, last year's top male athlete, who was three points behind.

sherrylynclarke@nationnews.com

CARIFTA

One student from Foundation, Kyann Maynard, will be going to the CARIFTA games. In the recently completed Secondary Schools' Championships she set a new record of 42.70 metres in the under 20 Javelin. She also held the Under 17 record of 41.94 metres for two years. It was broken this year by Deandra Dottin of St James Secondary.

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