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Phillips smashes Nationals’ U-16 Girls 100m record
-Caesar equals U-18 males mark
East Coast Demerara’s Kenisha Phillips smashed the 100m National Schools’ Championships Under-16 record yesterday at the National Stadium in a time that was also good to replace the marks in two other
Upper Demerara/Kwakwani’s, Compton Caesar (lane 4) pounds his chest after equalling the U-18 Boys’ 100m record at the National Schools’ Championships at the National Stadium yesterday. (Zaheer Mohamed photo)
categories above her age group.
Phillips ran 12.0 seconds that was better than Upper Demerara/Kwakwani’s (Linden), Onasha Rodgers’ record 12.2 seconds done last year at Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Ground. Phillips won ahead of East Georgetown’s, Cassie Small and South Georgetown’s Tiffaunna Garnett, who had 12.3 and 12.4 seconds respectively.
Phillips’ time would have also given her the U-18 and U-20 records. Robyn Alleyne has held the U-20 record since 2004. Upper Demerara’s sprint ace Compton Caesar produced another record performance.
Caesar blasted his way to 12.7 seconds in the U-18 age group. He ran the same time last year to ensure that his name is in the record books alongside Chavez Ageday (2010), Keon Lynch (2011) and Jason Yaw (2013). He finished ahead of New Amsterdam’s Tyrell Peters (11.0s) and West Coast Berbice’s Titus Webster, who ran 11.1 seconds.
West Demerara’s, Tevin Garraway, who broke the 22-year-old stranglehold on the U-20 Boys’ record last year at GDF Ground, returned with another winning performance in the same group, this time, however, in 10.8 seconds. East Georgetown’s Linton Mentis and North Georgetown’s Jason Yaw was second and third respectively in 11.0 and 11.1 seconds.
Upper Demerara’s Kennisha Prescott won the 100m Girls’ U-20 race with North
North Georgetown’s, Samuel Lynch barely gets home ahead of Upper Demerara/Kwakwani’s Nigel Gonsalves in the U-18 Boys 800m yesterday at the National Stadium. (Zaheer Mohamed photo)
Georgetown’s Isoke Britton (13.1s) and West Demerara’s Abioce Heywood (13.4s) second and third. North Georgetown’s Avon Samuels ran 12.6 seconds to win the U-18 Girls race ahead of East Coast’s Cassie Tixey (12.7s) and East Georgetown’s, Natricia Hooper, who ran 12.8 seconds.
Upper Demerara’s Daniel Williams ran 11.0 seconds to win the U-16 Boys’ 100m ahead South Georgetown’s Umkosi Vancooten (11.2s) and New Amsterdam’s Jermaine King (11.4s). Joshua Hercules, representing New Amsterdam, won the U-14 Boys’ race in 12.0s ahead of Corentyne’s Jameel Browne (12.2s) and Upper Demerara’s Dexter Pellew (12.3s).
North Georgetown’s Yesenia Andrews won the female U-16 race in 12.9s ahead of Upper Demerara’s Deshanna Skeete (13.0s) and East Bank’s Juvonna Cornette, who ran 13.1 seconds.
Meanwhile, North Georgetown’s Orin Prince captured the 800m U-20 male race in 2:06.8 ahead of Upper Demerara’s Shaquille Smartt (2:07.1) and East Georgetown’s Quacy Simpson (2:08.3) respectively. Upper Demerara’s Shontel Hinds won the female version in 2:31.6 ahead of North Georgetown’s Maria McKenzie (2:34.2) and Essequibo Coast/Pomeroon, Tiffany Joseph, who had 2:36.4s.
North Georgetown’s Samuel Lynch followed up with another 800m victory in the Boys’ U-18 category in 2:04.3 ahead of Upper Demerara’s Nigel Gonsalves (2:04.7), who he edged on the line. East Coast’s Maurice Barnes (2:06.6) was third.
North Georgetown’s Maria Urquhart won the female version in 2:32.1 ahead of the
East Coast’s, Kenisha Phillips (lane 4) cracks the 100m Girls’ Under-16 record in 12.0 seconds yesterday at the National Schools’ Championships at the National Stadium.
seasoned campaigner from West Coast Berbice’s, Delicia Harper (2:34.1) and Upper Demerara’s Serena Williams (2:36.4s).
North Georgetown’s Jeremy Garnett won the Boys’ U-16 race in 2:07.8 ahead of Corentyne’s Jakeem Benn (2:09.1) and South Georgetown’s Ronaldo Wishart (2:10.3). Claudrice McKoy had her second gold medal of the Championships with a win in the female version in 2:23.1 for North Georgetown. West Demerara Joanna Archer (2:25.) was second and South Georgetown Aaliyah Moore (2:38) third.
West Coast Berbice’s Mathew Gordon won the U-14 male race in 2:17.6 ahead of Corentyne’s Tyrese Wharton (2:18.0) and Upper Demerara’s Murphy Nash (2:19.8). East Coast’s, Kissanna Glen won the female version in 2:33.6 ahead of Upper Demerara’s Shaquka Tyrell (2:34) and West Coast Berbice’s, Tia Thornhill, who ran 2:39.3s.
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