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Mar 13, 2012 Sports
-Five athletes selected, another five shortlisted
By Edison Jefford
The Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) has officially identified its ten prospects for the upcoming CARIFTA Games scheduled for Bermuda in April. Among the ten athletes, the five, who made the qualifying standards, are certain of their place on the team.
In a brief interview with AAG President, Colin Boyce, yesterday, it was revealed that the body has definitely selected five athletes while another five are shortlisted with their place on the team based on the procurement of the requisite sponsorship for them to compete.
The five athletes whose place on the team is certain are Chavez Ageday, Stephan James, Davin Fraser, Tevin Garraway and Timothy Fullington. These athletes made the qualifying standards, which the AAG had set as the primary yardstick for selection.
Then from a pool that included seven athletes, another five were named. Those include, Andrea Foster, Caiton Samuels, Tirono Mitchelle, Shomaine Daniels and Letitia Myles. These were the athletes who narrowly missed the qualifying standards in their events.
Tiffany Carto and Devon Barrington, the other two likely prospects, did not find favor with the association. The AAG President informed that the selection process was done in order of priority of those who were closest to the standards the association had identified.
He noted that it is his intention to send the ten athletes to the premier Caribbean youth and junior competition but that will require a major financial undertaking. According to Boyce, the priority of the association will be to ensure that the qualified athletes compete.
“I cannot say now if the full team will go. I know that our first priority is to those athletes, who I think earned their place by qualifying under our standards. The other five like I have been saying is based on how well sponsors respond to us for them,” Boyce indicated.
He said that he will be heartened if Guyana can realise such a goal as sending what would be one of its largest contingent to-date to the CARIFTA Games. The association had sent six athletes to compete at the 2011 CARIFTA Games in Jamaica.
“I will be extremely happy if all these athletes can compete in Bermuda next month,” he told this newspaper, adding that the association made 75 percent of its $500,000 target at the Fund Raiser it hosted on the day of its CARIFTA Trials last Thursday.
That 75 percent, however, is just the approximate airfare cost for an athlete to travel to Bermuda, which is a primary reason why there is so much emphasis on procuring corporate sponsorship. Boyce said that he is optimistic that the full team will be able to compete in Bermuda.
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