KINGSTON, Jamaica — Calabar High and Edwin Allen are leading the score boards after eight events in their respective categories at the finale of the Digicel Grand Prix Athletics Championships — the GC Foster Classics currently ongoing at the National Stadium.

Calabar are on 42.5 points, just ahead of Kingston College (40) and defending Grand Prix champions St Jago High (35).

On the girls side, Edwin Allen have so far amassed 45 points, six ahead of the much improved Excelsior (39), with St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) in third on 22.

The winning schools overall will take home $1 million towards their sports programme, while the second and third place schools will be awarded $500,000 and $200,000 respectively.

Athletes are also in the reckoning for individual prizes, with $25,000 lying in wait for record breakers and $50,000 for the top coach.

Meanwhile, the outstanding Lamara Distin of Vere Technical cleared the bar at 1.80m on her way to victory in the girls’ Under-20 high jump, bettering the previous height of 1.70m set by Shania Ingram last year.

Kevin Nedrick of Petersfield continued his rich vein of form in the field when he threw a mark of 56.48m to win the boys’ Under-20 discus throw, erasing the previous mark of 53.18m set last year by KC’s Zico Campbell.

Edwin Allen’s Fiona Richards, the Champion Girl of the Central Championships, won the girls’ Under-20 event with a mark of 51.01m, just shy of the 51.92m record.

Sherdon Cowan