Some 675 ath­letes from 48 ath­let­ic clubs and schools across the coun­try are reg­is­tered to com­pete at this year's Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tion of T&T (NAAATT) Na­tion­al Ju­ve­nile Track and Field Cham­pi­onships at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain to­day and to­mor­row.

The young­sters will com­pete in 52 events in the Un­der-9, U-11 and U-13 age di­vi­sions.

Lead­ing the way are the top ath­letes from the Na­tion­al Pri­ma­ry Schools Champs on May 28-Glo­ria Hen­ry and Je­re­mi­ah Hec­tor.

Hen­ry won the girls' U-13 400 me­tres, long jump and high jump events rep­re­sent­ing Sig­nal Hill Gov­ern­ment while Hec­tor of Scar­bor­ough RC was vic­to­ri­ous in the boys' U-13 high and long jumps and sec­ond in the 400m.

Two weeks ago, Hen­ry and Hec­tor copped the girls' and boys' U-13 pen­tathlon ti­tles, re­spec­tive­ly.

At last year's Ju­ve­nile Cham­pi­onships, Hen­ry se­cured triple gold in the girls' U-13 high jump, 400m and 300m hur­dles. She missed on a fourth gold tak­ing sil­ver in the 60m hur­dles.

The ver­sa­tile ath­lete led her club Ris­ing Su­per Stars (Rss) Phoenix to a third straight over­all ti­tle last year with 663.5 points ahead of Cougars (438), Zenith (396), Burn­ley (293.5), Lam­beau Al­liance (156), Mem­phis Pi­o­neers (153), Sim­plex (123) and Mer­cury (122).

Glo­ria's sis­ter Chloe will be in ac­tion along with Daniel Roberts, Key­on Bournes and Uri Gran­di­son.

Hec­tor will head Zenith's charge join­ing re­cent­ly-crowned na­tion­al girls' U-9 triathlon win­ner D'Mya Williams and U-11 tetrathlon gold medal­lists Kalia Agard and Ke­nai Reid.

Cougars will re­ly on Zion and Nao­mi Phillp (not re­la­tion) as well as Shae Ben­jamin.

Des­tiny Arnold and Za­mel Woodroffe are the top Burn­ley com­peti­tors to watch.

Azz­iron Williams is ex­pect­ed to be in the Lam­beau Al­liance team.

Des­tiny Guev­era (Abi­lene Wild­cats), Aiden Beard (IG Fast­lane), Bert Melville (Ma­son Hall Po­lice Youth), Bel­la Ro­driguez (Chee­tahs), Samyi­ah Stroude (Con­corde), An­toniya Tay­lor (Princess Town Achiev­ers) and Malique Roberts(Mem­phis Pi­o­neers) are among the ath­letes set to shine.

The first event is sched­uled to be­gin at 10 am.

2024 Point stand­ings

1-Rss PHOENIX (663.50)

2-COUGARS (438)

3-ZENITH (396)

4-BURN­LEY (293.50)

5-LAM­BEAU AL­LIANCE (156)

6- MEM­PHIS PI­O­NEERS (153)

7-SIM­PLEX (123)

8-MER­CURY(122)

9-KAIZEN PAN­THERS (112)

10- ONE A WEEK (96)

11- QRC (94)

12-MA­SON HALL PO­LICE YC (69)