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Dec 05, 2012 Sports
The Mercury Track and Field Club, which is based in Georgetown, are currently preparing their Athletes for a busy 2013. The club is presently using the Guyana Teachers Union and Ministry of Education grounds to train its members from Monday to Friday starting from 16:00 hours. Head coach, Christopher Gaskin said they are focusing on the 2013 Carifta Games and other competitions. He stated that they are currently doing off season work which will last
until February.
“I am pleased with the progress shown, myself along with the other coaches are working very hard to improve their strengths and weaknesses, and get them to focus towards the 2016 Olympics”. The other coaches involved in preparing the Athletes are Carlotta Rodney, Orin Sheppard, Wendell Lambert (middle and long distance), Jennifer Hall (strength) and Wendy Doris (field).
Ms. Rodney told Kaieteur Sport that she is proud of their achievements in 2012 and is confident they will better their performances in 2013. She said that for the Athletes to continue training they have to maintain a certain level where there studies are concerned. “They are training very hard and we (coaches) ensure that they not only focus on training but their studies as well, we would check their report cards at the end of the school term, we want them to balance their education with the training”.
Some of the Athletes represented their Districts in the recently concluded School’s Track and Field Championships where they performed creditably. North Georgetown’s Kevin Abbensetts won Gold in the Boys U-18 100 and Silver in the 200 meters, Triple Jump, Long Jump and 4×100 open relay. Tirana Mitchell of South Georgetown copped Gold in the Girls 100 and 200 meters, she ran a career best 12.3 seconds in the 100 erasing the old record of 12.5. She was also part of the team that took Gold in the open 4×100 meters Relay. Kwesi Blair of East Bank Demerara took the second podium spot in the Boys U-16 800 meters.
Another member of the club, Rennick Burnette of West Berbice grabbed silver in the 100 and 200 meters U-20, while Ebony Nelson of East Georgetown won the 100 meter Girls U-20 and placed second in the 200 and 400 events in the same division. She also took silver in the Long Jump and was a member of theU-18 4×400 meters relay team that took bronze.
She stated that she is training very hard to bring glory to her country and thanked her sponsors. She is being sponsored by Hillary Davidson, Neil Henry and Ronald Thorn while Davidson, Henry, Thorn and along with Collin Ming are supporting Mitchell. (Zaheer Mohamed)
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