Five westerners in CAC team
MONTEGO BAY, St James – FIVE athletes from western Jamaica including two 2012 Olympians have been named in Jamaica’s 46-member team that will compete in this weekend’s XXIV Central American and Caribbean Athletics Senior Championships to be held in Morelia, Mexico, starting tomorrow and ending on Sunday.
The team was named following the JAAA/Supreme Ventures National Senior Championships held at the National Stadium two weeks ago.
Former William Knibb Memorial runner Dane Hyatt, the 2012 national 400m champion and 400m hurdler Roxroy Cato, formerly of Green Island High, are the Olympians with western origins included in the team.
Hyatt was a semi-finalist at the London Olympic Games last year while Cato failed to get past the first round in his event.
Former two-time IAAF World Junior Championships 100m champion Dexter Lee, who also won a relay gold medal at the IAAF World Championships in 2011, was also named as well as Albert Town High and STETHS sprinter Andrew Fisher.
The lone female, Lesline Gilzene, who attended Muschett High and now attends the University of Technology, is making her first ever national team at any level.
She took part in the women’s 100m at the four-day Trials and failed to make it to the fina,l finishing 10th overall.