Organiser upbeat ahead of Pure Wata/JC development meet
The 29th staging of the Pure Wata/JC R Danny Williams track and field development meet will take centre stage today at the Richard Ashenheim Stadium on the school’s campus in St Andrew.
The meet is scheduled to get underway with action in the female section, which is to run from 8:30 am to 1:00 pm. The male section is to run off at 1:30 pm and scheduled to finish at 7:00 pm.
The events to be contested at the meet are 100m, 800m, 1500m, 3,000m, 70m, 80m, 100m, 400m, hurdles, along with the discus, high jump, shot put, and javelin.
Defending Inter-secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA)/GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships champions Kingston College and Edwin Allen High are both, respectively, down to participate.
They are to be joined by Jamaica College, Calabar High, St Jago High, Excelsior High, Camperdown High, and Wolmer’s Boys’ and a number of other schools.
On the girls’ side, Edwin Allen are expected to be joined by Wolmer’s Girls’, St Jago, Immaculate Conception High, Excelsior, Convent of Mercy Academy (Alpha), and The Queen’s School, among others.
Ian Forbes, organiser of the meet, said all is in place for a very successful staging of this year’s meet and, therefore, is expecting some exciting competition from all the schools at the championship.
“I am feeling very good about this year’s meet because everything is in place for things to be executed flawlessly,” said Forbes.
“The team was working throughout the holiday to ensure that everything is in order and so we are fully prepared to have a very good meet to start off this calendar year,” he said.
“The entries are pretty good because all the top schools will be there and so we are expecting some high quality performances from both boys and girls throughout the meet,” Forbes said.
A maximum of four competitors are allowed per class, per event for each team. The meet is also a qualifying event for this year’s ISSA boys’ and girls’ athletics championships to be held at the National Stadium in March.
This year’s honorees are Ortis Wynter, Duane Cunningham, Brandon Samms, and Darren Virtue.
