MI­A­MI–The Con­fed­er­a­tion of North, Cen­tral Amer­i­ca and Caribbean As­so­ci­a­tion Foot­ball (Con­ca­caf) yes­ter­day un­veiled the lo­go de­signed by stu­dents for the in­au­gur­al Con­ca­caf Un­der-15 Cham­pi­onship, to be held in the Cay­man Is­lands in Au­gust.The de­sign, which fea­tures a sting ray–a ma­rine crea­ture em­blem­at­ic of the host Con­ca­caf mem­ber as­so­ci­a­tion–was de­signed by Ver­i­ty Byrne, an 11-year-old stu­dent at Cay­man Prepara­to­ry School in Grand Cay­man. Stu­dents across the is­land par­tic­i­pat­ed in the con­test to pro­vide the il­lus­tra­tive de­sign.

"Con­ca­caf is or­gan­is­ing the U-15 Cham­pi­onship for the first time in the re­gion. This tour­na­ment is spe­cial­ly de­signed for our youth to en­joy our beau­ti­ful game. There­fore, our in­ten­tion is to al­low them to par­tic­i­pate in the whole process of the com­pe­ti­tion so they can be co-cre­ators of this won­der­ful ex­pe­ri­ence," said Con­ca­caf pres­i­dent Jef­frey Webb. "We are ex­treme­ly grat­i­fied to be an out­let of ex­pres­sion for our youth's wealth of cre­ativ­i­ty and en­thu­si­asm."

In cel­e­brat­ing the ac­com­plish­ment of Cay­man host­ing its first-ever re­gion­al cham­pi­onship event, the con­test called on stu­dents across the is­land to de­sign their own lo­go for the com­pe­ti­tion. The com­pe­ti­tion was ex­tend­ed to over 15 pri­ma­ry schools in Cay­man and sev­er­al stu­dents rang­ing in age from six to 11 years old sub­mit­ted their own colour­ful and in­no­v­a­tive de­signs, with Ver­i­ty's lo­go ul­ti­mate­ly be­ing cho­sen as the win­ner.Cay­man will host this year's edi­tion of the Con­ca­caf Un­der-15 Cham­pi­onship, the first re­gion­al cham­pi­onship held by the con­fed­er­a­tion for young men at this lev­el. Twen­ty-five teams from across the re­gion will par­tic­i­pate in the event, to be held at four dif­fer­ent venues on Grand Cay­man from Au­gust 14-25. (CMC)