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Last Updated: Feb 6, 2017 - 2:32:04 PM |
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Nassau, Bahamas - The thirty five member sixth Bahamas Track and Field team this year will participate in the Pan American Jr. Track & Field Championships this weekend in Miramar, Florida.
The last Bahamian team sanctioned by the Bahamas Association won a total of ten medals, five Gold, two Silver, and three Bronze at the Central American and Caribbean Track and Field Championships in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, finishing in fourth place to Jamaica, Cuba, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Just a week before that, the Bahamas World Youth Team won an amazing three Gold, and one Bronze to finish fourth, quite a historic feat.
This weekend there will be the best of the athletes from the Carifta Games competing with Track and Field’s best from Canada in the north to Chile in the south. This adds athletes from the Track and Field powerhouses like the United States, Cuba, and Brazil.
Just last week in Mayaguez, junior athletes like Anthonique Strachan, and Katrina Seymour did extremely well in their maiden voyages at the senior international competition level and came out well.
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Strachan, the Austin Sealy Award winner from the Carifta Games improved her 200m time to 22.90sec from 22.93sec in finishing second to Bahamian Nivea Smith.
Katrina Seymour finished third in the 400m hurdles with a new Bahamian National of 57.24sec.
Ingraham finished fourth in the High Jump with a clearance of 2.22m, just a centimeter under his new National Junior record set at the BTC Jr. & Sr. National Track and Field Championships in Grand Bahama last month.
The age limitation in the Pan American Jr. Track and Field Championships is not born before 1992. For the World Youth is not born before 1994.
The last Pan American Jr. Championships was held in Trinidad & Tobago in 2009.
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As always we expect some surprises and some disappointments. Some of those athletes who reigned supreme at the Carifta Games in April will not do as well in August. Some, however, will rise to the occasion to take their rightful place on the hemispheric level.
Some of our athletes will make the World Championships team to compete next month in Daegu, South Korea.
Bahamians are encouraged to attend the meet which starts on Friday and ends on Sunday in Miramar, just outside of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
The preparation and funding of teams to international competition is an extremely costly venture. For this, we congratulate Kerzner International for their support in sponsoring this team.
The Bahamas Association of Athletic Association thanks them for their kind support.
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