To­ba­go's Kene­jah Williams will open T&T's quest for pre­cious met­al, when he chal­lenges the boys' Un­der-20 shot put fi­nals on the first ses­sion of the three-day Cen­tral Amer­i­ca and Caribbean (CAC) Ju­nior Cham­pi­onships, in More­lia, Mex­i­co, this morn­ing.

He is among a con­tin­gent of 40 T&T ath­letes, who left for Mex­i­co via Pana­ma, on Wednes­day, hop­ing to claim sim­i­lar suc­cess to the 2012 edi­tion where this coun­try claimed eight gold, six sil­ver and nine bronze medals.

Aki­dah Brig­gs and Asha James will al­so be aim­ing for gold in the girls' U-18 javelin fi­nals. Brig­gs will have a busy day as she is sched­uled to re­turn to ac­tion in the girls' U-18 shot-put fi­nals along with Chelsea James. Brig­gs was third in the girls' U-18 shot put at the Carif­ta Games be­hind Chelsea who won the gold.

Tyriq Hors­ford and his Zenith club-mate Van­del Joseph are among the starters in the boys U-18 javelin fi­nals.

T&T's first gold on the track could come in the boys U-18 800m fi­nals where Point Fortin New Jets' Ter­ry Fred­er­ick and Myles Jack­son of Mem­phis Pi­o­neers will com­pete. UK-based Nicholas Lan­deau will be among the main con­tenders to to take the boys U-20 800m fol­low­ing his 1:49.51 clock­ing in Bel­gium in May. Lan­deau will be joined by Ash­ton Gill in the race. Girls U-18 Hep­tathlon com­peti­tors Ayana Glas­gow (To­co TAFAC), Khe­mani Roberts (Zenith) and Anya Ak­ili (Zenith) will be­gin their quest for gold. The trio will con­test the 100m hur­dles, high jump, shot put and 200m on the first day and then the long jump, javelin and 800m on the sec­ond day (to­mor­row) hop­ing to amass the top points en route to the podi­um. Hur­dler Dwight St Hillaire (Zenith) will do bat­tle in the semi­fi­nals of the boys' U-18 400m hur­dles events and look for a spot in the fi­nals to be con­test­ed lat­er to­day.

Reubin Wal­ters (Mem­phis Pi­o­neers) and Aaron Lewis (Zenith) will line in the boys' U-20 400m hur­dles semi­fi­nals this morn­ing, be­fore their po­ten­tial fi­nal sched­uled ear­ly this af­ter­noon. Among the over­all favourites, Jonathan Far­in­ha of Abi­lene Wild­cats will lead the way in the 100m for T&T. The na­tion­al ju­nior dou­ble sprint cham­pi­on will con­test the boys' U-20 100m semi­fi­nals along with John Mark Con­stan­tine (Con­corde). The 2014 Carif­ta bronze medal­ist and Con­stan­tine will be look­ing for place in the af­ter­noon fi­nals.

Za­kiya De­noon (Zenith) and Aaliyah Teles­ford (Pt Fortin New Jets) are this coun­try's en­trants in the girls' U-20 event and are al­so among the favourites to win gold. among the fa­vorites for the gold. Akan­ni His­lop (Zenith) and Corey Stew­art (Abi­lene Wild­cats) will con­test the to­day's boys' U-18 100m semi­fi­nals and fi­nals, card­ed for the morn­ing and af­ter­noon, re­spec­tive­ly, while Je­nea Spinks (Neon Track­ers), this coun­try's lone sprint­er, will chal­lenge the Girls U-18 100m semi­fi­nal this morn­ing.

To­day's ac­tion will end with the girls' U-18 and U-20 4x100m re­lay fi­nals, where T&T will be look­ing to im­prove on the sil­ver won in the girls un­der 20 race at the Carif­ta Games.