Xavier Mu­lu­ga­ta of Fa­ti­ma Col­lege joins a list of T&T ath­letes who re­ceived ath­let­ic schol­ar­ships to US uni­ver­si­ties. Mu­lu­ga­ta will be­gin his stud­ies at Louisiana State Uni­ver­si­ty (LSU) in Jan­u­ary. He won gold at the 2014 Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (CAC) Ju­nior Track and Field Cham­pi­onships in Mex­i­co in the boys Un­der-18 4x100 me­tres and al­so bronze in the boys U-20 4x100m at the 2015 Carif­ta Games in St Kitts and Nevis.

Sev­er­al oth­er T&T ath­letes left for US in Au­gust in­clud­ing Dawnell Col­ly­more (West Mu­cu­rapo Sec­ondary), Ian Thomas (St An­tho­ny's Col­lege) and Kai Ot­t­ley (Bish­op's Anstey). Col­ly­more, the 2011 Carif­ta girls U-20 800m bronze medal­list, is at ASA Col­lege while Thomas is a stu­dent at Coa­homa Com­mu­ni­ty Col­lege. Ot­t­ley be­gan stud­ies at St John's Uni­ver­si­ty.

Mean­while, for­mer CAC Ju­nior cham­pi­ons Hezekiel Romeo (Diego Mar­tin Sec and St An­tho­ny's Col­lege) and Reubin Wal­ters (East Mu­cu­rapo Sec) com­plet­ed their Ju­nior Col­lege schol­ar­ships at Cen­tral Ari­zona and will move on to the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mis­souri and Uni­ver­si­ty of Al­aba­ma, re­spec­tive­ly.

Romeo, who won the 2010 CAC Ju­niors boys U-17 and 2013 Carif­ta boys U-20 shot put ti­tles, will start at Mis­souri in Jan­u­ary join­ing Jonathan Hold­er (QRC). Wal­ters, the 2012 CAC Ju­nior boys U-18 100m hur­dles win­ner opt­ed for Al­aba­ma al­so from Jan­u­ary. Wal­ters will team up with Jereem Richards (AS­JA Boys Col­lege) and Domonique Williams (San Juan Sec­ondary).

Carif­ta boys U-17 long jump bronze medal­list in 2013 Che Richards (St Mary's Col­lege) left for Uni­ver­si­ty of Ed­ing­burgh, in the UK in Sep­tem­ber on a four-year Aca­d­e­m­ic schol­ar­ship. He was named the top Na­tion­al Open Lan­guage per­former in 2015. Richards is the third ath­lete in re­cent years to win an Open Aca­d­e­m­ic schol­ar­ship fol­low­ing Astrid Cas­simire (Bish­op's Anstey) Math­e­mat­ics in 2012 and Zara Suite-Stew­art (St Joseph Con­vent-POS), Sci­ences in 2013.

For­mer Carif­ta gold medal­list (2013-gold-girls U-17 300m hur­dles), Jem­i­nise Par­ris (St Fran­cois Girls Col­lege) will be off to Cen­tral Ari­zona in Jan­u­ary. Par­ris will join 2014 CAC Ju­nior/2015 Carif­ta girls U-20 cham­pi­on Por­tious War­ren. CAC Ju­niors Boys U-18 4x100m gold medal­lists from 2014 Corey Stew­art (El Do­ra­do East Sec) will be off to Se­quoia Col­lege join­ing com­pa­tri­ots Hol­land Caber­ra (Holy Cross), Theon Lewis (St Madeleine Sec), Odell James (San­gre Grande Sec­ondary), Shaquille Shin­guineau (QRC) and Ashron Sobers (Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary).