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Friday, February 28, 2025

Kumar, Johnson up for First Citizens Youth award

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Golfer Sachin Ku­mar and foot­baller Ke'die John­son are among T&T's lead­ing youth ath­letes that will be in line for top ho­n­ours when the First Cit­i­zens Sports Foun­da­tion stages its an­nu­al Youth Awards on Fri­day to ho­n­our the best of 2016.

The gala-cer­e­mo­ny will be held at the Trinidad Hilton, Port-of-Spain, and will fea­ture nom­i­nees in both boys' and girls' cat­e­gories in a num­ber of sport­ing dis­ci­plines in­clud­ing bad­minton, chess, cy­cling, foot­ball, golf, hock­ey, rug­by, squash, swim­ming, ta­ble-ten­nis, ten­nis, track and field, bas­ket­ball, kayak­ing, crick­et, karate, sail­ing, surf­ing, to name a few.

Pre­vi­ous win­ners in­clude Cherelle Thomp­son (swim­ming) and Chris­t­ian Homer (swim­ming) in 2010; Moni­fa Sealy (golf); in 2011 Quin­cy Alexan­der and Jo­di Goodridge (cy­cling) & Machel Ce­de­no (track & field) in 2012, and swim­ming duo, Shan­ntol Ince and Dy­lan Carter for the 2013 sea­son. In 2014 it was swim­mer Dy­lan Carter and chess play­er Ja­van­na Smith and in 2015, sprint­er Kali­fa St Fort and swim­mer Jer­ron Thomp­son.

To­day, Guardian Me­dia Lim­it­ed lists pro­files of some of the nom­i­nees:

FOOT­BALL(T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion)

Jay­don Prow­ell

Wild cel­e­bra­tions en­dured when Prow­ell scored the sec­ond of a dou­ble for T&T in a 3-2 come-from-be­hind vic­to­ry over Bermu­da–one of three goals he bagged dur­ing last year's CFU Caribbean Un­der-17 Cham­pi­onship on home soil: a great com­ple­ment to the for­ward's per­for­mances for St An­tho­ny's Col­lege, which he helped to sec­ond place in the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League's North Zone In­ter­col com­pe­ti­tion.

Ke'die John­son

An in­te­gral mem­ber of the women's youth foot­ball de­vel­op­ment pro­grammes in T&T, John­son made an im­pact at the se­nior lev­el as she helped St Au­gus­tine FC to sec­ond place in the T&T Women's Foot­ball League's Pre­mier Di­vi­sion and al­so earned the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League's women's play­er of the year ac­co­lade for her role in St Au­gus­tine Sec­ondary's Na­tion­al In­ter­col, East Zone League and East Zone In­ter­col ti­tle suc­cess­es.

HOCK­EY(T&T Hock­ey Board)

Teague Mar­cano

Def­i­nite­ly punch­ing above his weight, Mar­cano ap­peared as a 15-year-old at the Pan Amer­i­can Men's Un­der-21 Cham­pi­onship in Cana­da–where he helped T&T to a very im­pres­sive fifth-place fin­ish–and he sub­se­quent­ly guid­ed Malvern to the na­tion­al un­der-19 cham­pi­onship ti­tle.

Fe­li­cia King

King, 17, was a mem­ber of the se­nior na­tion­al women's team that fin­ished sec­ond in its FIH Hock­ey World League first round tour­na­ment in Sala­man­ca, Mex­i­co, where she scored one goal in a 13-0 open­ing game maul­ing of Guatemala; King al­so fea­tured for the sixth-placed Trinidad and To­ba­go un­der-21s at the Pan Amer­i­can Ju­nior Women's Cham­pi­onship at home.

GOLF(T&T Golf As­so­ci­a­tion)

Sachin Ku­mar

Ku­mar has been march­ing along to his own beat on the golf course and in 2016, he tri­umphed in the T&T Open at St An­drew's Golf Club in Mo­ka, via a play-off over Clint Al­fred; he al­so won the boys 16-17 ti­tle at the Caribbean Am­a­teur Ju­nior Cham­pi­onships in Christ Church, Bar­ba­dos by sev­en strokes–with a one un­der par to­tal of 215–and he helped the T&T se­nior men to third place at the Caribbean Am­a­teur Cham­pi­onships in Nas­sau, The Ba­hamas.

Ser­e­na Macken­zie

Macken­zie, 16, achieved third-place in the girls 17 and un­der di­vi­sion at the Caribbean Am­a­teur Ju­nior Cham­pi­onships in Bar­ba­dos and lat­er played with the T&T se­nior women at the Caribbean Am­a­teur Cham­pi­onships at the One&On­ly Ocean Club in Nas­sau; she al­so fin­ished third at oth­er open events–the TATIL In­vi­ta­tion­al and the Svel­ty Ladies Open–and won the girls 16-17 di­vi­sion at the Re­pub­lic Bank Ju­nior Open.

GYM­NAS­TICS(T&T Gym­nas­tics Fed­er­a­tion)

Isa­iah Hall

Even as gym­nas­tics has be­come an es­tab­lished dis­ci­pline in T&T, de­vel­op­ment is still ex­treme­ly im­por­tant and the ef­forts of Isa­iah Hall, 16, of­fered plen­ty of op­ti­mism for the fu­ture; at the TTGF Cham­pi­onships he won the na­tion­al men's over­all ti­tle with 52.2001 points thanks to gold medals in the floor ex­er­cise, par­al­lel bars and hor­i­zon­tal bar, along with a sil­ver medal on the rings, a bronze on the pom­mel horse and a fourth-place fin­ish on the vault.

JU­DO(Ju­do T&T)

Luke Walk­er

Ex­cel­lent hand-eye co-or­di­na­tion ap­pears to be a giv­en with Luke Walk­er, es­pe­cial­ly as a youth­ful front­line pan­nist with the In­vaders Steel Or­ches­tra: it was al­so use­ful at the USA Ju­do Ju­nior Olympic Na­tion­al and In­ter­na­tion­al Cham­pi­onships in Irv­ing, Texas, where he be­came T&T's first gold medal­list af­ter he won the men's un­der-18 66 kg di­vi­sion–a great ad­di­tion to the oth­er ti­tles he cap­tured at the Ju­do TT ju­nior cham­pi­onships and the Queen's Park Ju­do Club Tour­na­ment.

- To be con­tin­ued


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