Roneil Walcott
Carifta champion and ace patience runner Tafari Waldron took the pause honours within the main Secondary Colleges Computer screen and Self-discipline (SSTF) Center-Distance League tournament on September 22 when he gained the Trinidad Defective-Country Shuffle at the Queen’s Park Savannah in Port of Spain.
Waldron, who copped one of Trinidad and Tobago’s four gold medals at Carifta 2024 when he took the boys’ below-20 5,000-metre crown, beat Jeremy Samaroo and used Jules La Rode to the fill line to clutch the lads’s open Defective-Country title.
Within the ladies folk’s open speed, Zadie Pascall took the pause space before Davina Sooknanan and Seneca Noel.
Within the boys’ 17 and over class, CTS College of Industry and Computer Science’s Darius Harding took the pause prize, with Presentation College San Fernando’s Shane Bissoon and Queen’s Royal College’s Hakim Salandy inserting 2nd and third respectively.
St Joseph’s Convent PoS athlete Kayleigh Forde, a bronze medallist at Carifta 2024, gained the ladies’ 17 and over class, with Holy Faith Convent Penal’s Bridgette Bellamy and Bates Memorial Excessive College’s Shenequa Goitia rounding off the rostrum spots.
Bellamy’s schoolmate Kyla Hospedales earned Holy Faith Penal high honours within the ladies’ below-17 class when she edged out Zariah Pascall (El Dorado West Secondary) and Anna-Marie Francis (St Joseph’s Convent, PoS) to narrate first keep apart of residing.
Within the boys’ below-17 class, QRC had plenty to cheer about as Isiah Alder held off competition from Toco Secondary’s Darreon Thom and Trinity College East’s Jayden Alexander to plod away with the age neighborhood honours.
Within the below-15 class, Arima Central Secondary’s Mikael Serrette and El Dorado East Secondary’s Reneice Smith took the respective ladies and boys’ titles.
The date for the Tobago leg of the SSTF Defective-Country Shuffle remains to be to be made up our minds, however movement within the Center-Distance League will continue with the 5K tournament, which is appealing to be held all around the North, Tobago and South areas on October 10, 15 and 24 respectively.
The Center-Distance League culminates with the Third Shuffle, with separate races within the South/Central, Tobago and North Regions. This section of the Center-Distance will open with the Hill Shuffle in San Fernando on November 5, which is appealing to be adopted by races within the Tobago and North areas on November 7 and 15 respectively.
In every tournament of the Center Distance League, there may perchance be a college students’ class and an open class in which contributors of the general public can clutch half.
