Double CARIFTA Medalist Shaqua Tyrell to take up Mississippi Scholarship

19-year-old Shaqua Tyrell, a force to reckon with in the distance races, would be leaving for the United States today to bolster her experience on the track.

After landing successive bronze medals over the 1500m distance at the CARIFTA Games in 2018 and 2019, the former Christianburg Wismar Secondary School (CWSS) middle distance athlete has been awarded a scholarship to Hinds Community College in the state of Mississippi, and will wing out this evening for the United States, where she will make her entry to the college on 10th August.
Her father, Coach of the Christianburg Wismar Secondary School (CWSS) Moses Pantlitz, has said his 19-year-old daughter had performed outstandingly in 2019, and he is pleased that she now can take up the track and field scholarship offer to attend the college, where she would be able to compete at the NCJAA level for the next two years while being there.
Shaqua Tyrell has been an outstanding performer in the 800m and 1500m events throughout her secondary school years. She performed excellently at the Inter- Schools, at the National Schools, and Track and Field Championships from 2015 up to 2019.
“Shaqua will be leaving Guyana to do the 800m or 1500m events. However, when you reach there, it is possible that the coaches will put her according to their inclination of her talent. Presently, Shaqua has been competing at the 800m and 1500m, where her best results have been over the 1500m,” Coach Pantlitz shared in a brief comment about his daughter.
This is clear, since she is a two-time Under-17 Girls 1500m Bronze Medalist at the CARIFTA Games, when it was staged in the Cayman Islands in 2018 and again in The Bahamas in 2019.
Tyrell related that she is very excited to be afforded the opportunity to attend a college in the USA, where she can improve both academically and on the track under conditions which would be helpful in her quest to show her true potential as an athlete.
Coach Pantlitz has been high in praise of former National Middle Distance Champion Marian Burnett, who was instrumental in Shaqua Tyrell getting this opportunity to study and train in the US.
She began her athletic career at the New Silvercity Secondary School, and completed her secondary education at the CWSS, representing District 10 Upper Demerara/Kwakwani) over those years from 2015 through to 2019 at the Nationals.