Ayana Glas­gow and Avin­dale Smith were re­ward­ed for their top per­for­mances at the T&T Sec­ondary Schools Track and Field As­so­ci­a­tion (TTSST­FA) Prize Giv­ing Cer­e­mo­ny at the Lar­ry Gomes Sta­di­um in Ari­ma, on Wednes­day.

Glas­gow of To­co Sec­ondary won the Vic­trix award for her achieve­ments in the 18+ girls cat­e­go­ry at the Na­tion­al Sec­ondary Schools Track and Field Cham­pi­onships in April. Smith of Ari­ma Cen­tral Sec­ondary won the Vic­tor award for his ac­com­plish­ments in the Un­der-14 boys cat­e­go­ry.

Glas­gow, 18, who was in at­ten­dance to col­lect her award said, "This year was a re­al­ly good year at the Na­tion­al Games, I won a gold and three sil­ver medals."

The To­co ath­lete com­pet­ed in the high jump, long jump, javelin and 100m hur­dles but be­lieves high jump is her strongest event. The low­er six stu­dent al­so rep­re­sent­ed T&T at this year's Carif­ta Games. "I did go to the Carif­ta Games this year in St Kitts and came fifth in the javelin and made a new per­son­al best. Over­all it was a good year."

Glas­gow, who is hop­ing to com­pete at Carif­ta Games next year is a fan of Amer­i­can ath­lete Ash­ton Eaton. "I look up to Ash­ton Eaton, he is a mul­ti-event ath­lete just like my­self. He is the world record hold­er and he was a win­ner at the Olympics."Phillip Al­lard, pres­i­dent of the TTSST­FA said the same schools con­tin­ue to dom­i­nate.

"The stan­dard is good at times and we got some stu­dents who are just there for par­tic­i­pa­tion. The nor­mal schools are do­ing well, To­co Sec­ondary, Queen's Roy­al Col­lege, St Joseph's Con­vent Port-of-Spain, from South we have St Bene­dict's and To­ba­go is al­ways a top con­tender."

Al­lard, who has on­ly been at the helm since the end of last year has goals for the As­so­ci­a­tion. "There are three ma­jor things we want to ac­com­plish. One is the mar­ket­ing which we have done sig­nif­i­cant­ly this year. We have a theme song and we have a great web­site. We want pro­fes­sion­al­ly run sports meets, good stan­dard and we want the events to run on time. We need to cre­ate link­ages in the Caribbean and abroad, be­cause a lot of our stu­dents will be seek­ing schol­ar­ships abroad. We are hop­ing to get schol­ar­ships for some of our stu­dents."

Ho­n­our roll

In­di­vid­ual Age Group Win­ners

Cat­e­go­ry Name School

U-14 Male Avin­dale Smith Ari­ma Cen­tral Sec­ondary

U-14 Fe­male Patrice Richards Holy Faith Con­vent Cou­va

U-16 Male Tyshawn Gray Spey­side Sec­ondary

U-16 Fe­male Ay­la Stanis­claus Scar­bor­ough Sec­ondary

U-18 Male Troy Richards To­co Sec­ondary

U-18 Fe­male Ak­ili Anya Bish­op's High School

18+ Male Ash­ton Gill Mu­cu­rapo East Sec­ondary

18+ Fe­male Ayana Glas­gow To­co Sec­ondary

School Age Group Win­ners

Cat­e­go­ry School

U-14 Male Ari­ma Cen­tral Sec­ondary

U-14 Fe­male Holy Faith Con­vent Cou­va

U-16 Male Bish­op's High School

U-16 Fe­male Scar­bor­ough Sec­ondary

U-18 Male To­co Sec­ondary

U-18 Fe­male To­co Sec­ondary

18+ Male St Bene­dict's Col­lege

18+ Fe­male To­co Sec­ondary

RE­LAY FES­TI­VAL

Cat­e­go­ry School

Un­der-14 Male Fa­ti­ma

U-14 Fe­male Bish­op Anstey High School East

U-16 Male Queen's Roy­al Col­lege

U-16 Fe­male Bish­op Anstey High School

U-18 Fe­male To­co Sec­ondary

18+ Male St Bene­dict's Col­lege

18+ Fe­male St Joseph's Con­vent (POS)

Cham­pi­on Male School Queen's Roy­al Col­lege

Cham­pi­on Fe­male School To­co Sec­ondary

Cham­pi­on Boys School Queen's Roy­al Col­lege

Cham­pi­on Girls School St Joseph's Con­vent (POS)