Sev­en To­ba­go ath­letes shined bright­ly at last week­end’s Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tions (NAAA) Carif­ta tri­als at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Port-of-Spain.

Rox­bor­ough RSS Phoenix sprint­er Ay­la Stanis­claus led the way as she se­cured the qual­i­fy­ing stan­dard in win­ning the Girls’ Un­der-20 200-me­tre fi­nal in 23.92 sec­onds. Stanis­claus al­so se­cured the stan­dard for the NACAC Un­der-23 and Pan Amer­i­can Ju­niors by win­ning the Girls’ Un­der-20 100m fi­nal in 11.58 sec­onds.

Kaizen Pan­thers’ Kelsey Daniel al­so se­cured the stan­dard for the Carif­ta and Pan Amer­i­can Ju­niors in win­ning the Boys’ Un­der-20 long jump with a leap of 7.50 me­tres.

Oth­er To­ba­go ath­letes achiev­ing the Carif­ta stan­dard were To­ba­go Fal­cons duo Christo­pher Craw­ford in the Boys’ Un­der-20 shot put (16.35m) and Shak­era Kirk in the Girls’ Un­der-17 Dis­cuss (35.96m), Mer­cury’s Jay­den Scott in the Boys Un­der-17 dis­cuss with 44.35m, To­ba­go Se­lect’s Joseph Veay­on in the Boys’ Un­der-17 javelin (53.22m) and Kaizen Pan­thers’ Justin Guy in the Boys’ U-20 110m hur­dles fi­nal in 14.08 sec­onds.

Mean­time, Am­ber May­hew of Good­wood Sec­ondary leapt to vic­to­ry in the Girls’ Un­der-17 triple jump.

The 48th edi­tion of the Carif­ta Games to be in the Cay­man Is-lands from April 20-24.