Promising Runner Heads to CUT Games

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Friday, 20 July 2012 02:30

By caribarena news

Antigua St. John’s - One the athletes representing Antigua and Barbuda at this weekend’s Caribbean Union of Teachers (CUT) Athletic Championships in Jamaica will be Sunai Benjamin.

Benjamin is one of the most promising runners in the national youth track and field programme.
 
At the Antigua and Barbuda National Youth Championship in April, Sunai won gold in the Under 15 boys 100m held at the Yasco Sports Complex.
 
His time was 12:16 seconds, electronically.
 
The 13 year old, a past student of Seventh Day Primary School, has been training consistently for the regional event which is expected to be his biggest test to date on Friday and Saturday.
 
He will run in the 100m, 4 x 100m and medley relay.
 

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The event is organised by the CUT in recognition of the need to provide young athletes, aged 8 to 15 years, with some regional competition.
 
Although this is Benjamin’s first regional athletic championship outside of Antigua and Barbuda, his coach Kwame Galloway of Team Force 2000 II has been working with the youngster for the past eight months and said his charge is a receptive and adept individual to the training.
 
“He has shown rapid development in the sport in such a short timeline,” Galloway said.
 
He wishes Benjamin and all the other athletes success at the games and encourages them to compete with passion for the sport.
 
The CUT biennial athletic championships was first organised in Barbados in 1986. The participating countries at the inaugural meet were Anguilla, Bahamas, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Grenada, Guyana, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and host Barbados.

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