media_artricles :: 2015

79 schools chase Rotary Games honours today

Seventy-nine primary schools throughout Port of Spain and Environs will bid for athletic supremacy at the Pan American Insurance Company Rotary Games, at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain, today.

The schools will come from eight zones, including last year’s champions West “B”. The champs will have to withstand the challenge of Central “A”, and East A, winners of the Rotary Games six years ago.

This year’s Games, titled “Doing It Like A Boss”, will mark Port of Spain and Environs District’s dominance at the National Primary Schools Track and Field Championships. The district will honour athletes and administrators who have served the Port of Spain region for the past two decades. The Honorees this year include Derek LeGendre, Gregory Johnson and Clint Charles.

Athletes who have won titles at the Port of Spain Games and have gone on to represent the country have been invited to attend. The list includes Jehue Gordon, Marc Burns, Fana Ashby, Michelle-Lee Ahye, Pilar McShine, Edwin Hill, Simon Pierre, Kareem Taylor, Honory McDonald, Cleavon Dillon, Renee Clarke, Zwede Hewitt, Jovon Toppin, Kervin Morgan, Kernesha Spann and Dion Rodriguez.

The West “B” Zone, powered by Diamond Vale Government, Diego Martin Government and La Puerta Government, will be seeking to register another lien on the Rotary Challenge Trophy. But arch-rivals West “A” will be aiming to upstage last year’s winners.

The West “A” athletes scored their fourth win at the Games in 2006, and will be pinning their hopes on Maraval RC, as well as Carenage Boys’ and Girls and the powerful Dunross Prep, in an effort to better West “B”. The perrenial champions West “B” have captured the title 19 times in the past 25 years.

Among the athletes expected to shine today are West Zones, Caliyah Wallace, Peniel John, Shaniqua Bascombe, Central’s, Kianna Llewellyn, Kyrell Thomas and Jordan Pope, East’s Reyshawn Andrews, Reneisha Andrews and North’s Keone John.

Gordon, the 2010 men’s 400 metres hurdles world junior champion, is expected to make an appearance at the Games. The Minister of Sport – Honourable Senator –Brent Sancho is expected to declared the Games open.

The March Past will see Diamond Vale Government, Maraval RC, Sacred Hearts Girls, Mucurapo Boys, Ascencion Anglican, Gloster Lodge Moravian, Morvant Anglican School and Nelson Street Girls RC parading before the judges and marching to the music of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service Band.

The March Past, is scheduled to begin at 9.15 am and the Games will be streamed live.

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