Clay­ton Clarke

Ren­ny Quow will head a sev­en-mem­ber na­tion­al con­tin­gent to the 2012 IAAF World In­door Track and Field Cham­pi­onships in In­stan­bul, Turkey from March 9-11. Quow, 2009 World out­door 400m bronze medal­list, is ex­pect­ed to com­pete in the men's 400m event. The 2006 World Ju­nior cham­pi­on dipped be­low the qual­i­fy­ing stan­dard of 46.90 with his 46.70 clock­ing in Boston, USA on Feb­ru­ary 2. The Flori­da based ath­lete is one of three quar­ter­mil­ers who have at­tained the stan­dards: Lalonde Gor­don (46.43, 46.51) and Jar­rin Solomon (46.55) are the oth­er two. With on­ly two el­i­gi­ble to run in In­stan­bul, the fi­nal pair has not been named. The three will be part of Trinidad and To­ba­go 4 X 400m re­lay quar­tet. Quow and Solomon were mem­ber of T&T's team to the 2010 edi­tion of the meet in Do­ha, Qatar. World and Olympic sprint re­lay sil­ver medal­list Marc Burns (men's 60), Ja­maal James (men's 800, 4X400), Alee­sha Bar­ber (women's 60m hur­dles) and 18-year-old Ja­reem Richards (men's 4x400) are the oth­er team mem­bers. Sprint­ers Richard Thomp­son, Ke­ston Bled­man (men's 60m) and two-time World In­door fi­nal­ist Cleopa­tra Borel (women's shot put) have at­tained the World In­door stan­dards but have not been named in the T&T squad.

At­tempts to con­tact NAAA sec­re­tary/team man­ag­er Al­lan Ba­boolal on the avail­able of the trio proved un­suc­cess­ful as calls to his cell num­ber went unan­swered. US Col­le­giate ath­letes An­nie Alexan­der (women's shot put) and Kai Selvon (women's 60m) have sur­passed the World In­door marks but were not ex­pect­ed to be avail­able as the 2012 NCAA Di­vi­sion one Track and Field Cham­pi­onships are card­ed for the same week­end as the World In­doors. Trinidad and To­ba­go has won two sil­ver medals at the World In­door Cham­pi­onships: Ian Mor­ris in the men's 400m fi­nals (46.09) at the 1989 edi­tion in Bu­dapest, Hun­gary and the men's 4x400 team of (Mor­ris, Alvin Daniel, Dazel Jules and Neil De Sil­va) was sec­ond in the 1993 mile re­lay fi­nals in Toron­to, Cana­da in 3:07:02.

T&T team for the 2012 World In­door Cham­pi­onships

Event Ath­lete Per­son­al best Sea­son best Qual­i­fy­ing stan­dard

M 60 Marc Burns 6.55 6.64 6.67

M 400 Lalonde Gor­don 46.43 46.43 46.90

M 400 Jar­rin Solomon 46.55 46.55 46.90

M 400 Ren­ny Quow 46.70 46.70 46.90

M 800 Ja­maal James 1:47:66 1:47:66 1:48:00

M 4X400 Ja­reem Richards - - -

W 60mH Alee­sha Bar­ber 8.13 8.13 8.18

Man­ag­er Alan Ba­boolal

Coach Guness Per­sad

Mas­sage Ther­a­pist Zepher­i­nus Nicholas