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TT to compete at World University Games

A TRINIDAD and Tobago contingent left on Thursday for the 29th Summer Universiade Games, also known as the World University Games, which will be held in Taipei City, Taipei from today until August 31.

The biennial event is one of the largest multi-sport events with 14 compulsory sports. 

The TT delegation includes Darren Alfred (400 metres, 4x100 metres relay), Daniel Telesford (200m, 4x100m relay), Moriba Morain (100m, 200m and 4x100m relay) Micah Ballantyne (100m, 4x100m relay), Portius Warren (shot put) in athletics; swimmers Aleem Mohammed (10km open water, 1500m freestyle), Amira Pilgrim (50m butterfly, 50m breastroke, 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle) and Brittany Joseph, Catherine Spicer and Arun Roopnarine in table tennis. 

The head of delegation is also the president of the Tertiary Sport Association of Trinidad and Tobago (TS ATT ), Ian Pritchard, while the manager is the TS ATT 's vice-president Le-Roy Pierre. The coaches are Ian Carter (athletics) and Aleena Edwards (table-tennis), while the massage therapist is Shurlan Bonas. 

Pritchard is very optimistic of the performance of the contingent. 

He said, "The delegate, coaches and managers have the strongest confidence in the team because we have selected the best possible team possible team to represent the 'red, white and black' with distinction." 

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