The stag­ing of this year's To­ba­go Sec­ondary Schools Track and Field Cham­pi­onships may be in doubt as no date and venue have been an­nounced.

Since the clo­sure of the Dwight Yorke Sta­di­um in Ba­co­let in De­cem­ber for re­pairs, sev­er­al of the is­land's ath­letes have been af­fect­ed as no suit­able al­ter­na­tive venues for train­ing and com­pe­ti­tion have been pre­pared.

For­mer as­sis­tant sec­re­tary for Ed­u­ca­tion, Youth Af­fairs and Sports, Huey Cadette said late last year that the De­part­ment of Sports will make an an­nounce­ment on the grounds that will be avail­able for use but with just over one month in­to the year there has been no word of the arrange­ments.

Sev­er­al of the is­land's schools have had to post­pone their sports meets with many de­cid­ing not to host any at all. To date on­ly Ma­son Hall Sec­ondary was able to stage its meet at Mt Gomery, some dis­tance away from the school.

Rox­bor­ough Sec­ondary is set to have its meet lat­er this week. Scar­bor­ough Sec­ondary, Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary and Bish­ops High are un­like­ly to host any meets.

With­out the cham­pi­onships, To­ba­go will have to for­feit its par­tic­i­pa­tion in the na­tion­al cham­pi­onships set for March 6 & 7 at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um.

In 2012, To­ba­go ath­letes won their 20th straight na­tion­al ti­tle. The zone has pro­duced 2012 Olympic men's 400m bronze medal­list Lalonde Gor­don and World Cham­pi­onships bronze medal­list Kel­ly-Ann Bap­tiste (2011), Josanne Lu­cas (2009) and Ren­ny Quow (2009). Cur­rent Carif­ta cham­pi­ons Mark Lon­don (boys un­der 20 800m), Chelsea James (girls un­der 17 shot put), Kene­jah Williams (boys un­der 17 dis­cus) and And­wuelle Wright (boys un­der 17 long jump) are al­so from To­ba­go.

At the 2012 Carif­ta Games in Bermu­da, To­ba­go ath­letes won four of T&T's six gold medals.