RACHAEL THOMP­SON-KING

There was no hold­ing back Cougars Ath­let­ics Club as it oblit­er­at­ed the com­pe­ti­tion at the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ic Ad­min­is­tra­tions (NAAA) Re­lay Fes­ti­val held on Sun­day at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo.

Cougars won 20 of the 33 events to tal­ly a com­bined team score of 494 points at the meet, which saw 19 clubs bat­tling for top ho­n­ours. Sec­ond was Mem­phis Pi­o­neers with 430 and third was Sim­plex (358). Abi­lene Wild­cats (288) and Point Fortin New Jets (PFNJ) with 158, filled the oth­er two spots, re­spec­tive­ly. Clubs earned 20 points for a first place fin­ish, 16 for sec­ond spot, 12 for third, 10 for fourth 10 and eight for fifth place.

The quar­tet of Kayan­na Thorn­hill, Shan­non Joseph, Alis­sa Math­ais and J'Nae Bertete, run­ning in that or­der, opened Cougar's dom­i­na­tion in the Girls Un­der-9 4x50 me­tres con­test, win­ning in 33.48 sec­onds. Sim­plex's Niela John­son, Leah Archibald, Pre­cious Hol­ford and Ak­i­lah Chi­napoo (35.07) crossed sec­ond with Kay­la Fitz­patrick, Daynielle Guy, Kar­rah John and Sade Mar­tineaux of Mem­phis Pi­o­neers (36.16) in third.

Cougars boy's team of Jah­michael Wal­dron, Jabez George-Ar­naud, Sean Hart and Jaiden Ed­wards fol­lowed up with a win in the boys' ver­sion of the race in 31.86. Sec­ond was Mem­phis four­some of Adon Christo­pher, Za­yne Mar­tin, Tan­non Niemey­er and Ay­dan David­son in 32.92 and third, Sim­plex (Mikail Ma­habir, Donelle Ram­nar­ine, Mikhail Malaver, Aiden Lan­cast­er) in 34.35.

Cougars went on to win the both the boys' and girls' 4x100m races in the U-9, U-11, U-13 and U-15 age-groups and al­so in the boys U-17 4x100m, with the girls'team in this cat­e­go­ry plac­ing third.

The Kelvin Nan­coo-coached Cougars was al­so su­perb in their ba­ton-pass­ing tech­nique in the 4x200m re­lay events, win­ning the the boys' U-20 race but did not field a girls' team, then mo­ments lat­er won both U-15 di­vi­sions while the boys U-17 team placed sec­ond and its girls' team, fourth.

In the women's 4x200m race, Cougars was fifth. Win­ning was Sim­plex's Nyoshia Cain, Ka­maria Du­rant, Shiky­la Wal­cott and Taelonne Walk­er in 1:40.33 with Abi­lene (Rochelle Lewis, Shun-Shau­na Ma­son, Tia Hon­ore, Jale Fer­gus­son) sec­ond in 1:43.29 and third, Mem­phis (J'Da Browne, Sha­nia Mc Carter, Cait­lan Ra­goo­nanan, Deleth Charles) in 1:43.82

In the 4x400m, both Cougars boys and girls team were the win­ners in among the U-15s and the boys unit in the U-17 age-group.

Cougars then to­tal­ly dom­i­nat­ed the 800 Sprint Med­ley (100m/100m/200m/400m) win­ning both di­vi­sions in the U-13 and U-11 age-groups.