Vincies Shine Like Diamonds at Whitsuntide 2022
About 100 athletes from 5 clubs journeyed south to Grenada, to take part in the annual Whitsuntide Games on June 4th. The clubs, The Excel Track Club, High Performance Track Club, Mustangs, St. Vincent Grammar School and Xceed Sports Club won a total of 38 medals at the Kirani James National Stadium, in St. George’s.
Kesiann John of High Performance started the collection off, in the very first event on the track. She won the Open Female 1500m in 5:26.64 seconds. She then came back the latter stages of the meet to win Open 3000m.
Male middle distance stalwart, Zichri Hepburn, also of High Performance, also did a double, winning the U17 Male 800m and Open 3000m.
The youngest member of the contingent, 9 year old Jaheem Joseph, representing High Performance, was not going to be outdone by his older compatriots, and took double silver in the U11 Male 100m and 200m. Also doing a double, was High Performance’s Devonric Mac who blazed to victory in the U20 Male 100 in 10.69, and the 200m, setting a new meet record of 21.20.
Carifta Games U17 Boys 200m silver medalist, Keo Davis of the St. Vincent Grammar School, won that event in 21.92 seconds, and led a Vincentian sweep in the 400m, with Mustangs’ Ajay Delpesche (51.58) in 2nd and Jovanie Jacobs (51.84) of Xcel in 3rd.
A Vincy Sweep also came in the U17 Male Long Jump, where Xceed Sports Club’s Kodi Grant (6.60m) and J’aivar Cato (6.44m) were 1st and 2nd, followed by Grammar School’s Sean Henry in 3rd. In the U17 Male High Jump, Ajay Delpeshce (1.70m) and Kodi Grant (1.65m) were 1st and 2nd, and a third sweep could also have been possible, but Cato injured his hip on his one and only jump in the long jump, and had to withdraw from the meet. Delpesche, Grant and Cato have been the top U17 High Jumpers locally for the season.
The other Vincentian Whitsuntide medalists are:
- Shaquania Jacobs (Xceed) – U17 Female 100m – 2nd – 12.19
- Shaquania Jacobs (Xceed) – U17 Female 200m – 3rd – 25.96
- Zacri Sobers (High Performance) – U17 Male 100m – 2nd – 11.12
- Ajay Delpeshe (Mustangs) – U17 Male 100m – 3rd – 11.25
- Cadique Stephens (High Performance) – Open Male Long Jump – 1st – 6.60m
- Romaul James (High Performance) – Open Male Long Jump – 2nd – 6.29m
- Elizabeth Solomon (High Performance) – U17 Female 400m – 3rd – 1:04.80
- Trish Henson (High Performance) – Open Female 400m – 2nd – 59.32
- Malik Ferdinand (Xcel) – Male 20+ 400m – 2nd – 48.54
- Jonathon Medford (SVG Grammar School) – U17 Male Shot Put – 1st – 12.61m
- Waynel Lewis (High Performance) – U17 Male Shot Put – 3rd -11.38m
- Waynel Lewis (High Performance) – U17 Male Discus – 3rd – 31.21m
- Kirk Hamblette Jr. (High Performance) – Open Male Discus – 3rd – 35.00m
- Shykeina Dickson (High Performance) – U15 Female 200m – 3rd – 26.84
- Israel Cumberbatch (SVG Grammar School – U17 Male 800 – 2nd 2:07.37
- High Performance – Open Girls 4×100 – 2nd – 49.12
- Vincent Grammar School – U17 Male 4x100m – 2nd – 44.51
- High Performance – Open Male 4x100m – 1st – 42.65
- High Performance – Open Female 4x400m – 2nd – 4:20.36
- High Performance – Open Male 4x400m – 3rd – 3:41.94
