ANNE HOUSE DIDN’T GET a shot at redemption last year, so they made sure they took full advantage this time around.
Having finished second behind Elizabeth (Purple) the last time The St Michael School held sports in 2012, Anne (Yellow) flipped the script this time around to emerge champions at the National Stadium yesterday.
Their 859 points were just enough to hold off Elizabeth, who finished second on 836.25 points, while Boadicea (Blue) came in third with 762.75 points and Victoria (Red) fourth (656).
Boadicea’s Aaron Worrell and Leah Barker were both in tremendous form on their way to setting two records each, while also being named the Most Outstanding Male and Most Outstanding Female athlete, respectively.
Worrell, who was also crowned senior victor ludorum, was in a class of his own on his way to smashing both the Under-17 boys’ high jump and triple jump records.
His jump of 1.85 metres smashed Darren Hunte’s 2007 mark of 1.79, while Ernest Rollins’ triple jump record of 11.89 which had stood since 2005 was replaced with a leap of 12.10.
Worrell ended with 60 points after also winning the 100m (11.54), 200m (23.59) and 400m (53.89), along with placing second in the long jump and seventh in the discus.
The strongly built Barker wrote her name in the record books with impressive performances in the Under-20 girls’ 200 and 400 metres events. Her time of 24.72 replaced Akela Taylor’s 2012 mark of 25.17 in the 200, while she completely obliterated Cherrisse Lynch’s time of 58.78 on her way to posting 57.39 in the 400.
Ayanna Morgan, also of Boadicea, on the strength of participating in eight events, accumulated 57 points on her way to being named senior victrix ludorum.
Competing in the Under-20 division, she won the high jump, placed second in the 100m, 400m and javelin, third in the 800m, fourth in the 200m and fifth in the discus and shot put.
Jaden Brome of Anne House (62 points) and Victoria’s Xhane Greenidge, who amassed 57 points, claimed the junior victor and junior victrix ludorum titles, respectively.
Levi Cadogan was responsible for the only other record to fall on the day, sprinting to victory in the Under-20 boys’ 100 metres in a time of 10.80, just under his old mark of 10.83, set in 2012.
Not even new acquisitions Tamar Atwell and Akeim David could stop the 18-year-old Cadogan from doing the double, as he also swept the 200 in 21.72, with Atwell of Anne House, who came over from The Lodge School, second in 22.55 and David (Elizabeth), a former St Leonard’s student, third in 24.18.
David, the eventual divisional champion, did manage to turn the tables on the fancied CARIFTA Games sprinter in the 400 metres, barely nipping Cadogan (51.85) on the line to finish in a time of 51.71.
Atwell, who had led the race for the first 250 metres, claimed the bronze in 52.55.
