Four-member Guyanese Team for World Athletics’ Indoors C/ships

…CARIFTA relay teams on stream

The Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) is going full speed ahead with its CARIFTA 2022 planning, and are even considering relay teams at this juncture.
However, first on the Athletics calendar is supporting Guyana’s four-member team that would represent the Golden Arrowhead at the World Athletics Indoor Championships.
Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) President, Aubrey Hutson, shared information on Guyana’s World Indoor Championships team exclusively with Guyana Times Sport over the weekend.
“We have four athletes going off to World Indoors in a couple of days. You know, tickets were purchased last night,” Hutson divulged.
He went on to clarify by stating, “So, Quamel Prince in the 800m, Aliyah Abrams in the 400m, her sister Jasmine in the 60m, and also our new find Mr. (Travis) Collins, he’s going to be doing the 60m also.”
The Championships are scheduled for March 18th to 20th, 2022 in Belgrade, Serbia.

Also discussing another major upcoming event with this publication, Hutson revealed that the AAG is currently in the process of working out travel to the CARIFTA Games in Jamaica with its coaching staff mostly figured out.
“We’re looking at two means of getting there: which is via Trinidad into Jamaica, and we think we have a simpler route, which is to Miami and then come back down to Kingston. So, we’re looking at both options right now,” Hutson shared.
While listing the coaching staff, the AAG boss explained that consideration of an additional female coach will be done depending on the number of female qualifiers.
“We’re looking at putting together our final management team. Ms. Nadine Trotz is already earmarked as the Team Manager. We more than likely will go with Coaches Sham Johnny and Raymond Daw, and we also would look to have another female coach in there, based on the number of athletes we have, when we look at composition of our relay teams and that kind of stuff,” he explained.
With 9 athletes already qualifying for the games thus far, and another trial event to come this weekend, Hutson is positive that Guyana’s team would grow in number. Also adding to the numbers would be relay teams that the AAG hopes to field.
The AAG President revealed, “We’re more looking at a 4×1 male team. We think we have a good crop of Under-20 100m athletes, so, we’re looking particularly at that relay team. We’re also looking at our 4×4 females. At the Under-20 level again, we think we have a good crop of 400m Under-20 athletes,” he said.
“Once the competition numbers come up and we know exactly the amount of officials we’ll be able to take, then we’ll select based on that,” he concluded.
The CARIFTA Games are scheduled to be held in Jamaica from April 16th to 18th, 2022. (Jemima Holmes)