If the words of Bog Walk High’s coach Donovan Dennis is to be taken as gospel, then his prodigy Jevaughn Minzie will break Yohan Blake’s six year-old 100m Champs record of 10.21 next month.

Minzie, 18, who has a personal best of 10.28 seconds done in 2012 as a 16-year-old, cruised to 10.31 seconds at the Camperdown Classic two weeks ago, and his coach believes he is on course to run much faster when the speed work kicks in.

“Our main aim at Champs is to at least come down to 10.1 seconds, so we did a lot of strength work, core work and a lot of extra work to get him stronger for the final 30 in the 100m for him to pull through,” Dennis told the Jamaica Observer.

Currently, Minzie is third favourite to win gold at the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) Girls and Boys’ Athletics Championship behind Carifta champion Zharnel Hughes of Kingston College and Calabar’s Michael O’Hara in what is expected to be the hottest 100 final race for years.

“Competition is competition and you can’t run away from it because it tells you what you have been doing in training,” said Dennis.

“So seeing him last week Saturday at the Camperdown Classic, I know where he is and I am not too disturbed by O’Hara’s time that he has run, because on the given day (what you do) is what counts and we will see who is who and who turns up at the end of the day,” he added.

Minzie jogged 10.31 at the Camperdown Classic and immediately O’Hara responded in the following heat with 10.29 easily. Earlier that day, Hughes ran 10.36 at the Milo Western Relays.

The KC camp is excited about the prospect of Hughes from the tiny island of Anguilla, who defeated both Minzie and Jazeel Murphy at the Carifta Games last season, and again, defeated both at the Pan Am Juniors to be crowned the region’s fastest youngster.

O’Hara, after his 10.29 clocking, said he was just cruising and is 80 per cent to where he should be by the time Champs comes around. Minzie is said to be around 80 per cent also and Hughes said he is much stronger.

So based on these reports, history is beckoning and fans at Champs could witness the first sub-10 performance in the blue ribbon event come Friday, March 28.

But Minzie’s coach is looking far beyond Champs, although he wants his charge to do well there, the focus is elsewhere.

“It’s his final year in the Class One 100 and 200 and we are really focusing on the World Juniors. It’s not that we are taking Champs out of it, because we want to perform well at Champs, coming out with the double,” Dennis outlined.

“In the past three weeks we have been getting a lot of rain and these 400s that he is running at these track meets are strength and background work for the 200m and 100m.

“We don’t want anybody to be frightened that he is burning out. He had missed out a lot due to rain so we are using the 400s to put in that work,” he noted.

“After all of that, we will unload to ensure that the objective is by Champs because a lot is expected from him and I have to ensure that he delivers,” said Dennis.

Minzie, who will be best remembered for his 2011 blooper at the Carifta Games when he had a five-metre lead in the 200m final and tried to mimmick Usain Bolt’s 2008 Beijing pre-finish celebration was caught by Machel Cedenio of Trinidad and Tobago.

“I told him to go out hard and he should have a five-metre lead, but probably he was too excited,” Dennis theorised.

“We have looked back at videos to see what is what and we have worked on the weak areas, especially (the) psychological (aspect),” he revealed.

Bog Walk’s Jevaughn Minzie in action