KINGSTON Jamaica — Eight national senior champions from the recent JAAA/Supreme Ventures National Senior Trials have been included in Jamaica’s 46 member team to the XXIV Central American and Caribbean Athletics Championships (CAC) Championships to be held in Morelia, Mexico this weekend July 5 to7.

Natoya Goule who won the women’s 800m while setting a new personal best and IAAF World Championships A qualifying standard of 1 minute 59.93 seconds, leads the women team that includes former Commonwealth Games champion Sheri-Ann Brooks, Aleen Bailey and 800m runner Bobby-GayeWilkins-Gooden who returned from a two year drugs ban last year.

National senior champions Wilbert Walker, O’Dayne Richards, Chad Wright, Orin Powell and Jowayne Hibbert are on the men’s team that also includes former two-time IAAF World Junior champion Dexter Lee.

The Jamaica team:

Women (21)

Francine Simpson, Todea-Kay Willis, Allison Randall, Sheri-Ann Brooks, Aleen Bailey, Nadine Palmer, Lesline Gilzene, Audra Segree, Elaine Thompson, Bobby-Gaye Wilkins-Gooden, Kayon Robinson, Shereefa Lloyd, Chris-Ann Gordon, Simoya Campbell, Monique Morgan, Indira Spence, Nickiesha Wilson, Danielle Dowie, Saniel Atkinson-Grier, Natoya Goule and Kimberly Williamson.

Men (25)

Nicholas Gordon, Jermaine Jackson, Wilbert Walker, O’Dayne Richards, Chad Wright, Orin Powell, Andrew Fisher, Oshane Bailey, Dexter Lee, Jason Livermore, Taffawee Johnson, Jermaine Brown, Omar Robinson, Dewayne Barrett, Dane Hyatt, Allodin Fothergill, Ricardo Chambers, Jowayne Hibbert, Ricardo Cunningham, Eric Keddo, Ackeem Smith, Isa Phillips, Roxroy Cato, Darrell Garwood, Akheem Gauntlet.

Officials:

Team manager, George Forbes; assistant manager, Merlene Hamilton; medical doctor, Richard Watson; physiotherapist, Robert McDonald; head coach, Orville Byfield; coaches, Dave Anderson, Christopher Harley, Julian Robinson and Danny Hawthorne.

— Paul Reid