The Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) is scheduled to host its Inter Guiana Games (IGG) trials on September 16 at the Bayrock Synthetic Track in Linden.
This is according to General Secretary of the AAG, James Cole.
Cole stated yesterday that the one-day U-18 trials would be used to select the national team to represent Guyana at the Games scheduled to be held in Suriname from October 26-31.
Tianna Springer is expected to be one of the stars on show at the IGG trials
Thirteen males and 13 females will form Guyana’s athletic team.
The meet is scheduled to be highlighted by track prodigy Tianna Springer along with other standouts Malachi Austin, Narissa McPherson and Javon Roberts. The gold-medal-winning , history making quartet that competed at the Commonwealth Youth Games last month in Trinidad.
This year, 10 disciplines will be contested during the Games which involve Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. They are track and field, badminton, basketball, volleyball, football, tennis, table tennis, futsal, chess and swimming.
Cole further stated that the statutory National Senior Championship, which was postponed, is also imminent and the date of competition will be made known following the council meeting on Saturday.
