IT WAS another year, another win for the Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS), as they trumped the Faculty of Natural Sciences (FNS) and continued their stronghold on the University of Guyana annual Inter-Faculty Track and Field Championships held last Saturday at the University of Guyana campus grounds on the East Coast Demerara.

Backed by the winning points scored by this year’s champion boy Cleveland Forde, who accrued 30 points to take the title, FSS amassed 166 points to once again reign supreme.
The FNS stood with 120 points by the close of the day’s event late Saturday evening, even as several events had to be called off because of the growing darkness, finishing just two points ahead of the Faculty of Health Sciences.
Following behind in fourth place were the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, with 98 points, the UG Berbice Campus were next with 89 points, Faculty of Technology had 63 points. With 60 points School of Education and Humanities finished in the penultimate position, followed by the School of Earth and Environment Sciences with 33 points.
Forde won the 800m and 5000m, both times ahead of Health Sciences. Carlwyn Collins, as well as the 1 500m where he mastered Dexter Vanveen.
FNS’ fight was lead by Kezia Bess who took first place in the women’s 200m and 400m (1:10.3s). Running heat one in both races, Bess won her heats, overcoming fellow team mate Teshawn Bowman in the 200m and triumphing over Anirika February in the 400m.
Bowman had headed heats 2 of the girls’ 200m with a time of 31.7 seconds but found herself overcome by Bess’ time of 30.4seconds, in the event which was run as a final by time. In the 400m Bess had clocked 1:10.3s to eclipse the 1:10.8s clocked by February. Natural Sciences’ Christy Caleb managed to finish in 1:28.5s to cop third.
The day’s excitement reached a peak with the men’s 400m where UGSS president Joshua Griffith, got a run for his money against Social Sciences’ Eon Campbell, and Travis Poole.
Campbell, who was earlier defeated in the men’s 100m by teammate Owen Adonis in the 100m and 200m races finally managed to snag a first-place win after he clocked 53.4 seconds, and Poole ended with 54.7 seconds, leaving Griffith to finish third after he clocked 55.7 seconds.
Campbell had finished second in the 200m where Adonis had clocked 11.1 seconds, while he ended in third in the 100m, Adonis won in a time of 23.4 and Emauel Archibald finished second. Nikita Wilson and Kenesha Lashley battled it out in the women’s 3000m and 1500m, with Wilson winning the 3 000m but losing to Lashley in the4 1500.
Both Wilson and Lashley were overcome by Natural Sciences’ Tamica Garnett in the women’s 800m, with Wilson finishing second and Lashley third. Garnett had earlier won the women’s long jump after scaling a distance of 4.08m in the event.
Despite taking a fall at the finishing line Technology’s Kim Chan still landed a win over Bess in the women’s 100m.