T&T body­build­ing team placed sec­ond over­all at the 37th Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (CAC) Body­build­ing Cham­pi­onships, which con­clud­ed on Sat­ur­day in St George's, Grena­da. T&T re­gained the pre­mier place in the fe­male body­build­ing class, spear­head­ed by a tremen­dous per­for­mance from Can­dace Carr-Archer. Carr-Archer was first in the Women's Mas­ters Body­build­ing Class from a field of eight com­peti­tors. She con­tin­ued her dom­i­nance of the cham­pi­onship by adding the Women's over 55kg weight class from five oth­er con­tes­tants. She then went on to win the over­all fe­male body­build­ing cat­e­go­ry mak­ing her the sec­ond Trinida­di­an fe­male body­build­ing ath­lete to at­tain her IF­BB Pro­fes­sion­al Card (the first be­ing Neila Mur­ray which she achieved in 1992).

Carr-Archer con­tin­ued T&T's fe­male suc­cess at the cham­pi­onships by be­ing the sec­ond fe­male ath­lete in re­cent times to achieve her Pro­fes­sion­al Card, since Can­dace John in 2006 in the Body Fit­ness cat­e­go­ry. T&T's sec­ond place fin­ish was based on the tremen­dous per­for­mance of its twelve ath­letes, in com­par­i­son to the first place team from Bar­ba­dos which com­prised 20 ath­letes. The top three na­tion­al teams were Bar­ba­dos, T&T and the Ba­hamas. Nine­teen coun­tries took part in the cham­pi­onships, which had 133 en­tries.

Oth­er no­table T&T per­for­mances came from Michelle Al­leyne, who placed sec­ond in the Body Fit­ness up to 158 cm height cat­e­go­ry, Tama­ra Riberio � Bai­ley, who placed sec­ond in the Body Fit­ness up to 163 cm height cat­e­go­ry, and Mon­isa Har­bans-Ale­ong, who placed third in the Body Fit­ness up to 168 cm height cat­e­go­ry. Karen George was sixth in Women's Fit­ness Open cat­e­go­ry while Neil Di­az com­plet­ed a hat-trick by win­ning the Men's Fit­ness Cat­e­go­ry. Oth­er team plac­ings in­clude Dami­an George sixth in the Men's Mas­ters and Dex­ter Lit­tre­an fifth in the Men's Mas­ters Cat­e­go­ry. In the men's Body­build­ing Light­weight cat­e­go­ry, Kel­ton Thomas placed fourth and Dex­ter Lit­tre­an placed third. And, in the Wel­ter­weight Di­vi­sion, George fin­ished sixth, Win­ston Chris­t­ian Jnr came fourth in the Mid­dleweight Cat­e­go­ry and Lawrence Mar­lon Bel­fon was fourth in the light heavy­weight.