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New-look athletics team for IGG identified
-Male athlete to be omitted on ratification
By Edison Jefford
The preliminary junior athletics team, which will represent Guyana at the upcoming Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) in Suriname next month, has surfaced with just one male athlete facing elimination to bring the team in line with the requisite quota of athletes.
Thirteen male and 13 female athletes are required for the 26-member athletics team. The female team is in line with the prerequisites of the selection criteria, but the male team has an extra male athlete and a decision on who will be axed was expected last night.
The Selection Committee of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) apparently met to ratify the team last night, which will make the national team official. The athletics association had held it’s IGG trials five weeks ago and the team was selected days after.
However, a senior official from the association had told Kaieteur Sport that there are some rules governing the releasing of the team, namely, that it cannot be released without a National Sports Commission (NSC) consent and authentication of the athletes.
Nevertheless, this newspaper was able to obtain both male and female list from sources. The unit obviously represents a new breed of junior athletes, who will have a mammoth task returning the IGG title that Guyana lost last year. New faces dominate the team.
The most accomplished female athletes include Tiffany Carto, Letitia Myles, Jevina Straker and Jevina Sampson. Carto and Myles just returned from the Commonwealth Youth Games in Isle of Man, England while Straker is a CARIFTA Games gold medallist.
Sampson is one of the youngest, most accomplished and talented athletes on the team. She could run unnoticed at the trials based on her performances, taking second in the 400m and third in the 200m at just 13 years old. She is a national schools’ champion.
Carto and Myles will compete in the 100m and 200m with Myles looking as comfortable as ever at the IGG trials with wins in both events. Carto was second. Straker will most likely compete in the middle distance, 1500m while Sampson competes in the 400m.
Andrea Foster, who is the daughter of a former national senior champion, Alicia Fortune, will be competing in the 1500m and 3000m after beating Straker in the 1500m at the IGG trials. Melissa Byass (400m) and Alexis Williams (3000m) seal the female track athletes with their picks among the 13 athletes.
In the field events, the jumps that include Long, High and Triple Jumps will be divided between Juanita Hooper, Marcia Isaacs and Alita Moore. Meanwhile, Shemika Caesar will compete in the Discus and Javelin; Lawanda Whaul was identified to compete in the Shot Putt and Discus while Lisa Bowman will most likely compete in the Javelin and Shot Putt.
On the male team, CARIFTA Games and Pan American Junior Championships finalist, Stephan James and junior distance-running sensation, Nathaniel ‘Brother’ Giddings, are the notable faces among those now selected to represent Guyana at the national level.
James will compete in the 200m and 400m races, which he won comfortably at the trials. Chavez Ageday will compete in the 100m and 200m races. Giddings, who has had significant success on the local 10km Circuit this year is expected to run in the 5000m event.
Trevon George and Kevin Bayley will battle in the 800m and 1500m events, while Chavez Sital will join Giddings in the 5000m with Tevin Garraway competing in the 100m. Bevon Noble will be the other representative for Guyana in the 400m event.
In the field events, the jumps will be divided among Linden’s, Carlon Pitt and Marlon Moshett as Garraway also adds to Guyana’s strength in the Long Jump. It is deciding on the throws that has given the Selection Committee of the AAG a bit of a problem.
They have identified Troy Lewis, Shaquille Scott, Michael Bowman and Clarence Greene in this category for the team. However, Bowman, Lewis, and Greene’s selection look to be more certain based on their performances at the IGG trials several weeks ago.
It is from the throws that an athlete will be dropped and the specific assignments will be handed out to the remaining three athletes. At a meeting with the athletes, officials apparently stated that Scott was on standby. The decision on this matter was expected last night.
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