WITH wins by Lisa Gill and Attoya Leander, West Demerara(District 3) continues to put up a good defence of their title in the teachers’ competition of the National Schools’ Championships ongoing at the National Stadium, Providence, where they are currently in the lead.
Being held alongside the students athletics competition, the teachers are also getting their chance to show off their athletic capabilities and win points for their respective districts.
As the competition continued with the field events and the 80m, 100m and 800m races yesterday, District 3 ended with 98 points.
Following closely behind is Bartica (District 7) with 91.5 points and South Georgetown (District 13) with 91 points. The other Georgetown districts are also making way in this competition with East Georgetown (District 12) and North Georgetown (District 11) following with 78 and 74 points, respectively.

While they are dominating in the students competition, District 10 needs to pick up the pace with their teachers’ team falling behind with 63 points. Last year,Linden ended second in this competition.
Other districts in the running are North West District(District 10) with 53.5 points, East Bank Demerara (District 14) with 39 points, Corentyne (District 6) just behind with 35 points, and New Amsterdam (District 15) with 26 points.
The West Demerara female team is out-performing the male team, with the district topping the female side but third among the districts on the male side.
Gill picked up some top points for the district when she championed the female teachers’ discus after covering 20.01m on her second throw;she also ruled the shotput with a distance of 9.80m.
Leander won the Under- 21 discus throw (17.27m), javelin throw (15.43m) and shotput (6.70m).