Tutorial and UG off to Barbados Relay Fair tomorrow

TWO 14-member teams representing the University of Guyana (UG) and Tutorial High School are expected to depart Guyana tomorrow afternoon for Barbados, where they will be taking part in the Barbados Relay Fair to be held this Saturday at the National Stadium, Waterford, St Michael, Barbados. The two teams will leave on the same LIAT flight that departs at 15:00hrs tomorrow.
The UG and Tutorial teams are expected to be the only teams from Guyana who will be attending the annual event.
For Tutorial, this will be the school’s third consecutive year participating in the event, which is expected to be attended by teams from all across the Caribbean. The school will be entering a Girls’ and a Boys’ Under-17 team comprising five athletes each and a Girls’ Under-13 team of 4 athletes.
The Girls’ Under-13 team will be participating in the 4x100m, 4x200m and the medley (100mx200mx300mx400m), the Girls’ Under-17 team will also be in a 4x100m, a 4x200m and a medley (200mx200mx400mx800m) relay.
However, the Boys’ Under-17 team will be only in the 4x400m and the medley relay.
The contingent is being managed by the school’s Physical Education teachers Kirk Moses and Andel Bethune, who will be travelling with the athletes along with three other adults.
Speaking with Chronicle Sport, Moses said that he has confidence in his team who have been in preparation for the past month or so.
“They have been training at the Police Sports Club ground under the guidance of Mr Scott and Lyndon Wilson, and Grimes teacher for the past few weeks and we are pretty confident about the Under-13 girls. For the Under-17 girls and the Under-17 boys we had a drawback because a few of them dropped out and that affected us a bit, and because of that we could not have the Boys’ 4x100m team. Basically I expect them to really compete, and I think we have a very competent team,” Moses said.
The team first attended the event in 2012. According to Moses, after having a number of adept athletes coming out of Tutorial, the school felt it fitting to extend the opportunities to its proficient athletes.
Moses pointed out that it is not just about sports since the students also have to perform at a certain level academically before they could make the team.
“Over the last few years we (Tutorial) would have dominated in the East Georgetown school sports, and we would have had quite a number of notable athletes who would have come out from Tutorial. We had national athletes such as Jevina Straker, Alika Morgan and Delon DeAbrue just to name a few, and so we decided to extend a little further with this competition.
“The athletes had to have a minimum 60% academic performance to make the team and were selected based on their performance at the inter-house school sports last year.” related Moses.
For UG the team, the female side will comprise Kim Chan, Fiona Jones, Kishwana Jeffords, Tamica Garnett, and Kezia Bess, while the male team is made up of Owen Adonis, Delon Willis, Kadeem Peters, Kareem Critchlow, Dane Johnson, Joshua Griffith, Adesina Flatts, Cleveland Forde, and Floyd.
Travelling with the team are the University’s Sports Organiser Lavern Fraser-Thomas and coach Scott.
The females will be participating in the 4x100m, 4x400m, and the medley (100x200x300x400m). The University will participate in the men’s 4x100m, 4x400m, the medley (200x400x800x1200) and an open 4x800m. Meanwhile Flatts will also be participating in the shot put and discus throws.

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