Naggo Head capture 4th straight Primary crown
Naggo Head Primary are champions for a record four straight year, as the 32nd INSPORTS/Swizzzle Primary Schools Athletics Championship came to an end at the National Stadium yesterday.
Having equalled St Benedict’s (2006, 2007, 2008) record of three successive titles last year, the Floyd Coke-coached Naggo Head added a fourth to become the most successful school in the history of the meet.
Naggo Head amassed 197.5 points to win by 50.5 points, ahead of New Providence (147), Greater Portmore (106), Belmont Park (92), St Benedict’s (79.5), Spanish Town (69.5), Southborough (65), Portsmouth (64.5), Harbour View (64) and St John’s (56).
Seven records were broken, with Ewarton Primary’s Christopher Taylor identified as a star in the making after winning both the Class One boys 200m and 400m in record fashion.
In the 400m, Taylor set a new mark of 53.45 seconds, smashing Chevene Campbell’s record of 56.27 set in 2010. Three hours later, the talented sprinter secured another gold medal in the 200m in a record 24.02 seconds.
Both Taylor and second-placed Tyreke Wilson (24.07) of Ensom City dipped under the old record of 24.13 held by St Jago athlete Raheem Chambers, formerly of Belmont Park.
Rose Lee Cooper of New Providence Primary registered a new mark in the Girls 100m Class Two with a time of 13.02 seconds, breaking Cardine Copeland’s seven-year-old mark of 13.03.
Following her record-breaking semi-final run of 2:28.10, which erased Lisa Buchanan’s mark of 2:29.20 set in 2009, Gregory Park’s Chrisann Lewis lowered her time yet again, as she clocked 2:27.82 in the final of the Girls 800m Open.
Lewis finished well ahead of teammate Kaleya Hinds, who logged 2:28.26, while Naggo Head’s Rohanna-Kay Knight took third in 2:31.35.
The other record performances came in the relays, with Greater Portmore Primary accounting for the Girls 4x100m Class Three and Four titles. They removed Duhaney Park’s three-year-old Class Four record of 1:00.39, and became the first school in history at this age-group to dip below the 60 seconds barrier, winning in 59.66.
Their Class Three team then did the same, in a time of 55.51 seconds, bettering the old mark of 56.05 set by Portsmouth Primary last year.
And as the curtains came down on the championship, Angels Primary took the Boys sprint medley relay in a meet record 1:53.72 seconds, breaking the 1:53.81 done by St Patrick’s Primary in 2009.
Second was St Benedict’s in 1:55.52, while New Providence claimed third in 1:55.65.
