Clarke, Wilson predict more successes for Champs 2009
Michael Clarke and Maurice Wilson, coaches of 2008 ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Champion teams Calabar and Holmwood Technical, respectively, think that with their current cadre of athletes, their teams should be hard to be beat within the next few years at the annual high school athletics event.
Both men said that while a few key persons will leave school this year, the core of their teams will remain at least for another year, giving them a good shot at winning in 2009.
Calabar will lose current team captain Andrew Riley, who won the Class One boys’ high jump and heptathlon Open, finished third in the 110m hurdles, was part of the winning 4×100m relay team, and was named the Champion Boy and Champion Class One boy for the 2008 championships.
“Andrew has been the stalwart of the team,” Clarke, a Calabar old boy himself, told Sporting World.
Noel Facey - the Carifta trials double champion - who finished second in the discus and third in the shot put at Champs, Warren Weir, and Marvin Grant will also leave school this year.
“Our philosophy in terms of building a team is primarily about continuity, and the spaces that are going to be created now based on our plans and what we have implemented over the last year should put us in a position whereby the boys who are leaving will be missed, but not a significant loss,” Clarke said.
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