Khal­i­fa St Fort and Akani His­lop lead a list of sev­en lo­cal ath­letes at­tain­ing the qual­i­fy­ing stan­dards for this year's World Ju­nior Cham­pi­onships in By­d­goszcz, Poland from Ju­ly 19-26.

The young­sters achieved the feat at the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tions (NAAA)/Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC)/To­ba­go House As­sem­bly (THA) Na­tion­al Ju­nior Track and Field Cham­pi­onships at the Dwight Yorke Sta­di­um in Ba­co­let, To­ba­go on the week­end.

Join­ing the duo are Ja­cob St Clair (Abi­lene Wild­cats), Kashief King (Point Fortin New Jets), Jem­i­nise Par­ris (Mem­phis Pi­o­neers), Je­nea Spinks (Con­corde) and Rae-Ann Serville (Mem­phis Pi­o­neers).

St Fort, the CARIF­TA girls' sprint cham­pi­on, sped past the women's 100 me­tres qual­i­fy­ing mark of 11.80, run­ning 11.53 (-0.7) in the heats of the girls Un­der-20 event on the open­ing day. With the qual­i­fy­ing time un­der her belt, the 2015 World Youth 100m sil­ver medal­list/World Se­nior 4x100m bronze medal­list, opt­ed out of the semi­fi­nals. Her train­ing part­ner, Sara Wol­las­ton, won the fi­nals in 12.04.

His­lop, an­oth­er CARIF­TA gold medal­list, claimed the boys U-20 200m in 21.13 (-0.3) to dip un­der the World Ju­nior mark of 21.35 on the sec­ond day of the meet. The 2014 Youth Olympic Games fi­nal­ist bagged the 100m ti­tle on the open­ing day in 10.57, miss­ing the 10.55 stan­dard by 0.02.

St Clair and King pushed each oth­er un­der the 47.70 stan­dard in the boys U-20 400m with St Clair tak­ing the gold in 47.19 ahead of King (47.39). With Third plac­er, Ju­dah Tay­lor (Abi­lene Wild­cats), clock­ing 47.87 and Dwight St Hillaire (Kaizen Pan­thers) in fourth in 48.02, the quar­tet are in con­tention for se­lec­tion on T&T's 4x400m team.

Par­ris won the girls U-20 100m hur­dles in 14.19 (-1.9). Run­ning alone in her age-group, as she had done for most of the sea­son, the 2013 CARIF­TA win­ner, crossed the line just in­side the 14.20 stan­dard. Par­ris al­so won the girls U-20 200m in 24.74.

Spinks made her case to join St Fort in the 100m in Poland, when she won the girls U-18 100m in 11.79 (0.5).

Serville sealed the girls U-16 400m in 55.15 to go faster than the World Ju­nior bar­ri­er of 55.25. How­ev­er, the 14 year-old is too young to com­pete at the glob­al meet. Her vic­to­ry in the one lap race though was one of four ti­tles she won, join­ing Anya Ak­ili (Kaizen Pan­thers) as quadru­ple cham­pi­ons. Serville added the girls U-16 100m hur­dles and 200m gold medals to her tal­ly and then an­chored Mem­phis to vic­to­ry in the 4x100m event.

Ak­ili se­cured the girls U-18 100m, 400m hur­dles, high jump and long jump crowns and was go­ing for a fifth in the girls 4x400m but the event was scratched be­cause of in­suf­fi­cient en­tries. Ak­ili's club mate, Khe­mani Roberts, was a triple win­ner, tak­ing the girls U-20 high jump, long jump and 400m. The na­tion­al ju­nior hep­tathlon record hold­er, al­so placed third in the shot put and javelin.

Kaizen Pan­thers emerged at the top club with 30 medals that in­clud­ed 14 gold, five sil­ver and 11 bronze, ahead of Mem­phis Pi­o­neers 22 (11/7/ 4), Cougars 23 (8/8/7), Abi­lene Wild­cats 20 (8/6/6), To­ba­go Fal­cons 11(8/3/0), Zenith 11(5/4/2), To­co Ti­tans 9 (2/5/2) and D'Abadie Pro­gres­sive 7(2/3/2), re­spec­tive­ly.