National Schools Track and Field Championships
We are the Champions! Linden District 10 celebrate their Championship win of the 55th National Schools Championships. (Photos by Adrian Narine)
We are the Champions! Linden District 10 celebrate their Championship win of the 55th National Schools Championships. (Photos by Adrian Narine)

Linden dethrones North Georgetown

By Tamica Garnett
A 48.7 seconds record breaking performance from Jason Yaw in the Boy’s Under- 20 400m was not enough to salvage a championship win for North Georgetown, who lost the 55th MoE/GTU National Schools Cycling, Swimming and Track and Field Championships to Upper Demerara/Kwakwani (Linden) District 10 when the event concluded last evening at the National Stadium, Providence.

Linton Mentis (first from left) leads District 12’s to a win in the men’s 4x100m relay
Linton Mentis (first from left) leads District 12’s to a win in the men’s 4x100m relay

Linden amassed 74 points to be declared the undisputed champions, and clinch their 14th championships title. North Georgetown ended in second place after finishing with 59 points. Third place was shared between Corentyne District 6 and East Georgetown District 12, which both ended with 47 points. With 46 points each, District 13 and West Demerara District 3 landed fifth place.
Linden now shares the claim of the most championships titles won with North Georgetown, who collected their 14th title since 2013. Linden was announced the winner of the championships following the announcement that they also successfully defended their title in the track and field championships of the competition

A District 10 representative receives the champion trophy from Digicel’s Sponsorship and Events Manager, Luanna Abrams  (second from left)
A District 10 representative receives the champion trophy from Digicel’s Sponsorship and Events Manager, Luanna Abrams (second from left)

. Linden finished second in the cycling, swimming and teachers’ divisions of the Championships.
The cycling competition was won by District 6, while the teachers’ competition’s win was carried away by District 3. North Georgetown boasts a win of the swimming competition.
Yesterday’s finale picked up speed with the 400m finals, which began with Yaw’s record breaking performance where he dominated ahead of South Georgetown’s Dequan Vancooten who ended the race in 50.4 seconds. Yaw smashed the 49.8 seconds record set by Stephon James on the same track back in 2012.
A false start left Natricia Hooper out of the Girls’ Under- 18 400m, which was won by North Georgetown’s Avon Samuels in a time of 59.5 seconds, while the Girls’ Under- 16 double sprint champion, Kenisha Phillips, being disqualified in the Girls Under- 16 400m cleared the way for Cassie Small to go unchallenged, and win the event in a time of 1:00.5s.
Yaw, who also won the Boys’ Unde-r 20 200m and came second in the 100m earlier in the week, took the Boys’ Under- 20 champion boy title. Samuels won the Girls’ Under- 18 champion girls’ title.
In the 4x100m relay which closed off the day’s activities South Georgetown won both the male and female relays. They won the male relay in a time of 45.5 seconds, and the female’s in a time of 52.1 seconds.

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