Af­ter nar­row­ly miss­ing out on a win in the boys’ un­der-20 100-me­tre fi­nal the day be­fore, where he was edged out by his broth­er, Kadeem Chi­napoo, Ha­keem Chi­napoo re­turned to the track at the Man­ny Ramjohn Sta­di­um in Mara­bel­la with pur­pose. And he made it count.

On the fi­nal day of the Carif­ta Tri­als, Chi­napoo bounced back spec­tac­u­lar­ly, clock­ing a blaz­ing 21.14 sec­onds in the boys’ un­der-20 200 me­tres fi­nal, well un­der the Carif­ta stan­dard of 21.74, to se­cure his place among the ath­letes set to rep­re­sent Trinidad and To­ba­go at the up­com­ing Carif­ta Games over the East­ern week­end (April 19-21).

The race was stacked with tal­ent, and Chi­napoo wasn’t the on­ly one to step up. Four oth­er sprint­ers al­so made the stan­dard time, turn­ing the fi­nal in­to one of the most com­pet­i­tive events of the day. Dae­shaun Cole ran 21.26, fol­lowed close­ly by Tre­vaughn Stew­art in 21.55, Ben Is­rael Ban­nis­ter with 21.60, and Za­c­cheus Charles clock­ing 21.74.

In the younger cat­e­go­ry, the boys’ un­der-17 200-me­tre fi­nal al­so de­liv­ered fire­works. All top three fin­ish­ers made the Carif­ta stan­dard of 22.22. Jay­den Goodridge pow­ered through with the fastest time of 21.61, fol­lowed close­ly by Alex Seep­er­sad in 21.66 and Ka­mari Di­az in 21.98. In­ter­est­ing­ly, all three had al­ready hit the qual­i­fy­ing time in their se­mi-fi­nal runs, con­firm­ing their con­sis­ten­cy and readi­ness.

On the girls’ side, Mikay­la Grander­son showed great promise in the un­der-17 cat­e­go­ry. She made the qual­i­fy­ing mark in her pre­lim­i­nary run but missed it in the fi­nal, fin­ish­ing first in 24.78, mere hun­dredths of a sec­ond shy of the 24.74 stan­dard. Right be­hind her were Za­da Charles (25.05) and Chel­cia Joseph (25.05), both push­ing hard to the fin­ish line.

In the girls’ un­der-20 200-me­tre pre­lim­i­nar­ies, four ath­letes made ear­ly state­ments by hit­ting the stan­dard: Sier­ra Joseph (24.10), Kay­la Charles (24.15), Aki­ra Mal­abar (24.30), and Noe­mi Theodore (24.39). They re­turned for the fi­nal and proved it wasn’t a fluke, as all four again clocked un­der the stan­dard. Joseph fin­ished in 24.26, Charles in 24.36, Mal­abar in 24.53, and Theodore in 24.61—so­lid­i­fy­ing their spots on the na­tion­al team.

Among the stand­out per­for­mances of the day were last year’s medal win­ners, the Vin­cent sib­lings, Tenique and Tyrique.

Ten­nique Vin­cent placed first in the girl’s hep­tathlon open, while Tyrique dom­i­nat­ed in all his events to place first in the boys un­der-20 de­cathlon.

In the hur­dles, Durlaina Rouse and Zari­ah Pas­call cleared the Carif­ta stan­dard in the un­der-17 girls’ 400m hur­dles, while Jen­na-Marie Thomas and Na­talia East­man did the same in the un­der-20 di­vi­sion. Thomas, a sil­ver medal­list from last year’s games in Grena­da, spoke on what she hopes to ac­com­plish at the games.

“I wouldn’t put any­thing spec­tac­u­lar out there, but I will def­i­nite­ly be get­ting on the podi­um in my events to rep­re­sent my coun­try well, my moth­er, and my coach­es,” she said.

Dis­tance events brought their ex­cite­ment. In the girls’ 3000-me­tre open run, O’Shea Cum­mings stole the show with a com­mand­ing per­for­mance, crush­ing the stan­dard of 11:33.78 by clock­ing 10:35.08.

Guardian Me­dia Sport caught up with Cum­mings af­ter her im­pres­sive vic­to­ry, where she had this to say.

“I cross the Carif­ta stan­dard by a big mar­gin, and go­ing in­to the Carif­ta Games, I would like to go for the gold and go for the Carif­ta record,” she said.

Aniqah Bai­ley, who placed sec­ond, al­so earned her place with a strong time of 11:11.98.

In the boys’ un­der-17 3000 me­tres, both Sam­my Christo­pher (9:13.35) and Ar­mani Dil­lion (9:19.20) made the stan­dard, show­cas­ing great po­ten­tial in en­durance events.

The fi­nal dis­tance event of the day, the boys’ un­der-20 5000 me­tres, saw Dar­ius Hard­ing rise to the oc­ca­sion. He crossed the line in 15:56.99, com­fort­ably un­der the 16:53.49 stan­dard. He was fol­lowed by Isa­iah Alder (16:37.06) and Jay­den Alexan­der (16:50.07), both al­so meet­ing the re­quired mark.

The fo­cus now shifts to the Carif­ta Games that be­gin on Sat­ur­day, 19th April.

Carif­ta Tri­als Day 3 Re­sults

Girls Un­der 17 400 Me­ter Hur­dles fi­nals

Carif­ta Std -1:10.15

NAME*CLUB*TIME

1. Rouse, Durlaina* FAD* 1:05.94 STD

2. Pas­call, Zari­ah* D’Abadie*1:08.11 STD

3. Stew­art, Pe­shaw­na* Rss Phoenix* 1:15.41

Girls Un­der 20 400 Me­ter Hur­dles fi­nals

Carif­ta Std - 1:05.20

NAME*CLUB*TIME

1. Thomas, Jen­na* IG Fast­lane*1:03.78 STD

2. East­man, Na­talia* Rss Phoenix* 1:04.02 STD

3. Rob­ley, Kaori* Kaizen Pan­thers* 1:06.49

Boys Un­der 17 400 Me­ter Hur­dles fi­nals

Carif­ta Std - 56.31

NAME*CLUB*TIME

1. John, Isa­iah* BURN 58.03

2. Romeo* De­vonte* Kaizen Pan­thers* 58.71

3. Pereira Khan, Se­ba* Mount­ing Ea­gles* 1:02.49

Boys Un­der 20 400 Me­ter Hur­dles fi­nals

Carif­ta Std - 55.19

NAME*CLUB*TIME

1. Gor­don, She­zlon* Rss Phoenix*55.48

2. Fran­cis, Je­re­mi­ah* D’Abadie*56.42

3. Bur­ris, An­der­son* Mer­cury* 57.48

Girls Hep­tathlon Open

NAME*CLUB*TIME

1. Vin­cent, Tenique*Con­corde Ath­let­ics* 4467 points

2. LA Queen Welch*QRC Ath­let­ics Club*3421

3. Kim­myah Jack*RSS Phoenix*3267

Girls Un­der 17 800 Me­ter Run fi­nals

Carif­ta Std - 2:22.82

NAME*CLUB*TIME

1. Lewis, Shi­an* +one A Week *2:14.67 STD

2. Kerr, Ny­la* Cougars* 2:21.40 STD

3. Phillips, Mya* Gen­e­sis* 2:33.45

Girls Un­der 20 800 Me­ter Run fi­nals

Carif­ta Std - 2:18.75

NAME*CLUB*TIME

1. Forde, Kayleigh* +one A Week* 2:17.86 STD

2. MC Kie, Charis* Cougars*2:29.10

3. Phillip, Shar­lene* Mem­phis Pi­o­neers AC*2:29.17

Boys Un­der 17 800 Me­ter Run fi­nals

Carif­ta Std - 2:00.00

NAME*CLUB*TIME

1. Scott, Brion* +one A Week*1:56.36 STD

2. White­man, Dar­i­on* Rss Phoenix*1:57.20 STD

3. Lewis, Khor­dae* +one A Week* 2:00.23

Boys Un­der 20 800 Me­ter Run fi­nals

Carif­ta Std - 1:55.86

NAME*CLUB*TIME

1. Thomp­son, Omare* +one A Week* 1:53.99 STD

2. Samuel, Keiel* +one A Week *1:54.75 STD

3. Clarke, Matthieu* Bar­ba­dos Team* 1:57.84

Girls 3000 Me­ter Run Open

Carif­ta Std - 11:33.78

NAME*CLUB*TIME

1. Cum­mings, Os­hea’* Zenith Ath­let­ic* 10:35.08 STD

2. Bai­ley, Aniqah* +one A Week* 11:11.98 STD

3. Muir, Kenya* Rss Phoenix*12:58.49

Boys Un­der 17 3000 Me­ter Run fi­nals

Carif­ta Std - 9:39.85

NAME*CLUB*TIME

1. Sam­my, Christo­pher*+one A Week* 9:13.35 STD

2. Dil­lon, Ar­mani* Con­corde Ath­let­ic* 9:19.20 STD

3. Sama­roo, Je­re­my*Rjrt* 9:46.00

Boys Un­der 20 5000 Me­ter Run fi­nals

Carif­ta Std - 16:53.49

1 Hard­ing, Dar­ius* Con­corde Ath­let­ic *15:56.99 STD

2 Alder, Isa­iah* Cougars* 16:37.06 STD

3 Alexan­der, Jay­den* Mer­cury *16:50.07 STD

Boys Un­der 20 De­cathlon

1. Vin­cent ,Tyrique* Con­corde Ath­let­ic * 5802 points

2. Camp­bell,Kaleb Kaizen Pan­thers Ath­let­ic­club 5568 points

3. Richard’s,Jah­bar­ri * To­co Tafac * 4820 points

Girls Un­der 17 200

Fi­nals

Carif­ta Std-24.74

1. Grander­son ,Mikayl* Al­pha* 24.78

2. Charles,Za­da *PFNJ*25.05

3. Joseph, Chel­cia *PFNJ*25.54

Boys Un­der 17 200 Fi­nals

Carif­ta Std- 22.26

1. Goodridge,Jay­den*BURN*21.61 STD

2. Seep­er­sad,Ka­mari*Phoenix Ath­let­ics*21.66 STD

3. Di­az,Ki­mari* Sim­plex*21.98 STD

Girls Un­der 20 200

Fi­nals

Carif­ta Std-24.67

1. Joseph,Sier­ra*Sim­plex*24.26 STD

2. Charles,Kay­la*Abi­lene Wild­cats*24.36 STD

3. Malaver,Aki­ra* Sim­plex*24.53 STD

Boys Un­der 20 200 Fi­nals

Carif­ta Std -21.74

1. Chi­napoo,Ha­keem*Sim­plex*21.14 STD

2. Cole ,Dae­shaun*Abi­lene Wild­cats*21.26 STD

3. Stew­art , Tre­vaughn* BURN*21.55 STD