Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
O’Brien<br />
Wasome<br />
Nigel<br />
Ellis<br />
Shanice<br />
Love<br />
Janelle<br />
Fullerton<br />
Junelle<br />
Seanie Selvin<br />
Bromfield<br />
2017<br />
Adrian<br />
Mitchell<br />
WHERE ARE<br />
<strong>THE</strong>Y NOW?<br />
Andrenette<br />
Knight<br />
Last year, 8 defending Class 1 and Open event champions,<br />
one girl among them, came back from 2015 to challenge<br />
for top honours at Boys and Girls Championships 2016.<br />
The circumstances are radically<br />
different this year. Just 5<br />
such champions return<br />
this time.<br />
The returners are:<br />
1. Javauney James,<br />
STETHS, 400m hurdles.<br />
2. Kyle Mitchell, Calabar,<br />
shot put.<br />
3. Patricia Moody, Edwin<br />
Allen, 100m.<br />
4. Monifa Green, Hydel,<br />
3000m.<br />
5. Sahjay Stevens,<br />
STETHS, now St. Jago,<br />
javelin.<br />
The biggest absentee is<br />
Akeem Bloomfield. Had<br />
he stayed at Kingston<br />
College, he would have<br />
had a chance to join<br />
Rupert Hoilette, Daniel<br />
England and Javon<br />
Francis as a three-time<br />
winner of the Class 1<br />
400m.<br />
28<br />
BOYS<br />
• 100m/200m: Nigel Ellis,<br />
STETHS, gone pro<br />
• 400m: Akeem<br />
Bloomfield, KC, left a<br />
year early, now at Auburn<br />
• 800m: Nathan Brown,<br />
XLCR, now Essex<br />
Community College<br />
• 1500m: Shavon Parkes,<br />
Bellefield, Wiley College<br />
• 110H: Seanie Selvin,<br />
Calabar, departing for<br />
scholarship later in 2017<br />
• 2000st/5000m: Thaleetio<br />
Green, St. Jago, now<br />
UTECH<br />
• HJ: Clayton Brown, JC,<br />
now Florida<br />
LJ/TJ: O’Brien Wasome,<br />
JC, now Texas<br />
• DT: Sanjay Lawrence,<br />
Petersfield, Barton<br />
Community College<br />
• JT: Adrian Mitchell,<br />
Calabar, now University of<br />
Albany<br />
• Decathlon: Marcus<br />
Brown, Morant Bay, now<br />
UTECH<br />
GIRLS<br />
• 200m: Ashley Williams,<br />
Holmwood, now GC Foster<br />
• 400m/800m/1500m:<br />
Junelle Bromfield,<br />
STETHS, left one year early,<br />
now at UTECH<br />
• 2000st: Teresha Jacobs,<br />
Edwin Allen, now New Mexico<br />
Junior College<br />
• 100H: Rushelle Burton,<br />
Camperdown, left a year<br />
early, now at University of<br />
Texas<br />
• HJ: Britny Kerr, Hydel,<br />
now University of South<br />
Dakota<br />
• LJ/TJ: Samara Spencer,<br />
Hydel, now University of<br />
South Dakota<br />
• SP/Hept: Janell<br />
Fullerton, Edwin Allen/<br />
St Jago, University of New<br />
Mexico Highlands<br />
• DT: Shanice Love, XLCR,<br />
now Florida State<br />
• 400H: Shannon<br />
Kalawan, Edwin Allen, now<br />
UTECH<br />
SOME O<strong>THE</strong>R NOTABLE DEPARTURES<br />
BOYS<br />
• Sean Bailey, St Jago,<br />
now Western Texas<br />
College<br />
• Devaughn Baker, JC,<br />
now UTECH<br />
• Warren Barrett, Calabar,<br />
now UWI<br />
• Michael Campbell, JC,<br />
now UTECH<br />
• Kino Dunkley, Munro,<br />
now Nebraska<br />
• Rogay Granston,<br />
Holmwood, now Meridian<br />
College<br />
• Vashon McCarthy,<br />
JC, now Cloud County<br />
Community College<br />
• Jordan Scott, Campion<br />
College, now University of<br />
Virginia<br />
• Collin Sewell, St Jago, now<br />
Long Island University<br />
• Shivnarine Smalling, KC,<br />
now Western Texas College<br />
• Shawn-D Thompson, St<br />
Jago, now GC Foster College<br />
• Waseem Walker, JC, now<br />
Purdue University<br />
GIRLS<br />
• Telecia Briscoe, Edwin<br />
Allen, now Wayland Baptist<br />
University<br />
• Segale Brown, Petersfield,<br />
now Western Texas College<br />
• Kimisha Chambers,<br />
STETHS, now Western Texas<br />
College<br />
• Nyoka Clunis, XLCR, now<br />
Cloud County<br />
• Semoy Hemmings, Hydel,<br />
now University of Findlay<br />
• Andrenette Knight, St<br />
Jago, now San Diego State<br />
University<br />
• Sydney Marshall,<br />
Manchester High, left two<br />
years early, now Johnson C<br />
Smith University<br />
• Shanice Reid, St Jago, now<br />
UTECH<br />
• Zinedine Russell, Alpha,<br />
Rice University<br />
• Latifah Smith, XLCR, now<br />
UTECH<br />
• Trudy-Ann Williamson,<br />
Wolmer’s, now Villanova<br />
University