Intercol names reduced team to World University Games
The Jamaica Intercollegiate Sports Association has been forced to reduce its 22-member delegation to 14 due to insufficient levels of sponsorship for the World University Games in Kazan, Russia.
The Games are scheduled to be held on July 6 – 17, 2013. Although securing a major contribution from the Sport Development Foundation (SDF), the association still has a $3.8-million budget deficit.
The proposed delegation had the number one-ranked table tennis player, badminton player and their respective coaches. Additionally, three track and field student athletes had to be removed from the delegation. However, if funds become available before the team departs on July 3, pothers can be added to the delegation.
The following athletes will represent Jamaica in Kazan:
Women: Danielle Dowie of the University of Texas Austin — 400mh; Danielle Williams of the Johnson C Smith University — 100mh; Shanieka Thomas of San Diego State University — triple jump; Anastasia LeRoy of GC Foster — 400m.
Men: Deuce Carter of UWI, Mona — 110h; Julian Forte of UTech Jamaica — 200m; Nicholas Watson of UTech Jamaica — 100m; Rasheed Dwyer of GC Foster College — 200m; defending champion Raymond Brown of GC Foster — shot put; Travis Jamie Smikle of UWI, Mona — discus; and Nicholas Maitland of UWI, Mona — 400m.
The management team will be Matthew Parchment — physiotherapist and massage therapist (UWI); Paul Francis — coach (UTech, Jamaica);
Rashid Hall — manager (UWI Mona), and Anthony Davis — head of delegation (UTech, Jamaica).
Intercol regrets the association’s inability to enter a multi-disciplinary team in the Kazan Games, as, for the first time, it has Jamaica’s highest ranked badminton and table tennis players being university students and potential candidates for Brazil 2016.
Additionally, Jamaica will be unable to field a team in any of the four relays.
In the 26th Universiade in Shenzhen, China, Jamaica won nine medals (six gold; two silver and one bronze).
The World University Games is second only to the Olympic as a multi-sport event with over 10,000 participants from 167 countries in 27 sports.
