Sport

High school trio in CAC Senior squad

Anastasia Le-Roy - file photo

THREE HIGH SCHOOL athletes, Kingston College's Alain Bailey and Holmwood's pair of Sonita Sutherland and Anastasia Le-Roy are included in Jamaica's squad for the 20th Central America and Caribbean Track & Field Championships in Nassau, Bahamas.

High and long jumper Bailey, 400m runner Sutherland and Le-Roy will be making their first senior team trip.

They will have World Junior 200m record holder Usain Bolt and Olympic Games bronze medallist Tayna Lawrence as their teammates.

Bolt heads the men's team, which includes Brandon Simpson, national 400m champion Lansford Spence and Chris Pinnock while Lawrence, who won the 100m bronze at the 2000 Sydney Olympic, leads Beverly McDonald, a World Champion-ships silver medallist, Michelle Freeman and Debbie-Ann Parris-Thymes.

The squad departs the island on July 6 for the championships, which starts on the eighth and runs until July 11.

Men: Lerone Clarke, Kurt Watson, Usain Bolt, Dewayne Barrett, Lansford Spence, Brandon Simpson, Aldwyn Sappleton, Ricardo Cunningham, Christopher Pinnock, DeCosma Wright, Dean Griffiths, Leroy Colquhoun, Dorian Scott, Kimani Kirton, Herbert McGregor, Alain Bailey, Wilbert Walker, Kenneth Sylvester, Maurice Smith, Claston Bernard, Llewelyn Bredwood, Kevin Stewart, Lansford Davis, Marvin Essor, Sanjay Ayre, Sekou Clarke.

Women: Beverly McDonald, Tayna Lawrence, Sherri-Ann Brooks, Peta-Gaye Dowdie, Shellene Williams, Moya Thompson, Aneita Denton, Kayon Thompson, Andrea Bliss, Michelle Freeman, Debbie-Ann Parris-Thymes, Shevon Stoddart, Kimberley Barrett, Elva Goulbourne, Pete-Gaye Beckford, Andrea Linton, Mardrea Hyman, Korene Hinds, Sheree Francis, Karen Beautle, Olivia McKoy, Kateema Riettle, Natalie Grant, Caltha Seymour, Daniele Browning, Jenice Daley, Nadia Davy, Sonita Sutherland, Allison Beckford, Anastasia Le-Roy.

Judy Ewart (manager), Hamlin Pagan and Merlene Hamilton (assistant managers), Edward Hector (head coach), Lennox Graham, Dalton Evans, John Mair, Raymond Stewart, Glen Mills (coaches). Medical team: Dr. Donovan Calder, Tenson Roy Thomas and Joan Rattray.