Clay­ton Clarke

Pub­lic Re­la­tions Of­fi­cer of the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ic Ad­min­is­tra­tion (NAAA) Trevor James has ten­dered his res­ig­na­tion to the lo­cal track and field gov­ern­ing body. In a re­lease sent to the me­dia ear­li­er to­day, James stat­ed "New ca­reer op­por­tu­ni­ties be­fore me have now made it very dif­fi­cult to keep the post as PRO." James was elect­ed to the post in No­vem­ber 2010 and when con­tact­ed for a fur­ther com­ment he replied, "I re­signed and that's it." Of­fi­cials at the NAAA of­fice in­di­cat­ed that no such in­for­ma­tion was re­ceived from James and ques­tions should be di­rect­ed to him. NAAA pres­i­dent Ephraime Ser­rette said he was out of the coun­try over the week­end at­tend­ing the Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (CAC) Ju­nior Track and Field Cham­pi­onships in El

Sal­vador, but on his re­turn to the coun­try on Mon­day he saw an email from James in­di­cat­ing that he had re­signed.

Serette said the NAAA will is­sue a state­ment on the mat­ter. How­ev­er, re­ports reach­ing Trinidad Guardian sug­gest that James' de­ci­sion to re­sign may have fol­lowed an ex­ec­u­tive meet­ing where James' per­for­mance as PRO was brought in­to ques­tion. James thanked all those who sup­port­ed him. James is the head coach of the Quan­tum Ath­let­ic Acad­e­my. The for­mer na­tion­al quar­ter­mil­er rep­re­sent­ed T&T in the men's 200m and 4x400m re­lay at the 1972 Mu­nich Olympics, reach­ing the quar­ter­fi­nals of the 200m event. The 63-year-old was a mem­ber of this coun­try's men's 4x400m team which won bronze at the 1971 Pan Amer­i­can Games in Cali, Colom­bia. The mo­ti­va­tion­al con­sul­tant al­so served as head coach of the 2005 Carif­ta Ju­nior team and was a team of­fi­cial with the 2003 and 2011 World Youth con­tin­gent.