Victor Ludorum Mekhi Griffith will be one to watch when BSSAC rolls around this year.
With their inter-house championships out of the way, the Coleridge and Parry School have their sights set on doing well in this year’s Powerade Barbados Secondary Schools Athletic Championships (BSSAC). Settling their in-house squabble this past Tuesday at the Usain Bolt Sports Complex, the attention is now turned to pooling their resources to create the best team they can for the annual competition that sees the winners taking home a year’s worth of bragging rights.
Speaking to The Barbados Advocate during the event where Set B snatched up a fourth straight title, Head of the Physical Education Department Don Small explained that although they did not expect to take a title, he knew his team would do well.
“Well, you know CP always wins some battles. We can’t win the war because of how we are made up – no sixth form – and Mr. (Ramon) Armstrong, who is really in charge of the team, he has a cadre of athletes that will do well. We have like Amara Harewood in the Under-13, Giovanny Lee – also in the Under-13 – and they are some good prospects,” he said.
Going on to highlight the eventual Victor Ludorum, Mekhi Griffith, Small said that not having a sixth form worked against the school for the championship.
“You must keep an eye on Mekhi Griffith. He’s in Under-17. He has improved gradually as he has come through the school. We will be there and we will give it 100%. Some of the children are working well and they will do well. We do not have a sixth form and we tend to ship children out to other schools after and one school in particular will do very well in the Under-20 this year compliments of Coleridge and Parry. But we don’t have a sixth form so we do what we can with what we have.”
Known traditionally as a school that does well in the Field events, most specifically in the throws, Small said that they should still do well despite being in a rebuilding phase.
“We will still be there. We have some good girls in the Shot Put especially. We lost a lot of people last year so we will really be rebuilding and I think that once these younger students stick with it, they will be successful eventually.” he said. (MP)