Defending champions Upper Demerara- Kwakwani (Linden) is making headway in their bid for a title repeat as they hold a handsome lead over the other 14 districts when the third day of the National Schools’ Cycling, Swimming and Track and Field Championships ended on Wednesday at Providence.
With 51 finals completed on day three, the District 10 accumulated 239.5 points while West Demerara (District 3) surprised the competition to be placed in second position with 210.5 points while North West (District 1) has so far registered 208 points, to hold on to the third spot.
Essequibo Coast/Pomeroon (District 2) was knocked down to fourth in line, now having 171.5 points.
Corentyne (District 6) has 149.5 points, East Coast Demerara (District 4) 144 points; West Coast Berbice (District 5), with 139 points are also teams which have impressed. Another Berbice team follows in the lineup as New Amsterdam (District 15) has 136 points.
Last year’s second place finisher North Georgetown continued to struggle in 9th position with 112.5 points.
In terms of the individual performances, North Georgetown’s (District 11) Kenisha Phillips, and Linden’s Compton Caesar and Daniel Williams were some who aroused those in attendance with their respective brilliance in the 100M.
Phillips ran a season best of 12.1s to win the girls U-16 title, holding off District 10’s Deshanya Skeete, who ran 12.2s for second and District 13’s Tiffauna Garnett (12.5s).
In the boys under -20, the question swirling in the stadium was wheather another Ceasar could achieve another record breaking feat like he did last year in the under-18.
Caesar shot out of the blocks with an explosive start creating a distance between himself and the field by the 50M mark , to win in a time of 10.6s, which was just shy of equaling the current record of 10.5s.
His nearest competitor was District 5’s Titus Webster clocked 11.13 seconds.
Claudrice McKoy (North Georgetown/District 11) was also a standout athlete yesterday.
McKoy underlined her class in a another superb display of speed and stamina, winning in excess of 15 meters in a brisk (2m:28.50s) to dominate the event in wire to wire fashion.
The ChaseAcademy’s fifth form student who added another gold medal to her cabinet was never threatened by second and third place finishers District 4’s Latoya Moore (2m:40.30s) and Sophey David (2m.43.0s) of District 1.
Her district mates, Samuel Lynch (Boys U-18) and Maria Urquhart (Girls U-20) also recorded victories in the 800m yesterday to add valuable points to the tally of the district which surprisingly sit in seventh place on 112.5s.
Today’s activities will be highlighted by the 200M and 1500M finals, with both beginning in the late afternoon period.
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