Vin­cent is de­rived from the Latin name Vin­cen­tius mean­ing "con­quer­ing." Eleven-year-old twins Tenique and Tyrique Vin­cent of Con­corde Ath­let­ics give cre­dence to their sur­name usu­al­ly dom­i­nat­ing their age group in the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tions' (NAAATT) ju­ve­nile cham­pi­onships over a va­ri­ety of dis­ci­plines test­ing their run­ning, throw­ing and jump­ing abil­i­ty.

Not on­ly are the sib­lings dou­ble trou­ble in track and field, Tyrique has the abil­i­ty to do sev­er­al sports due to his ath­let­ic prowess, while Tenique is al­so a high fly­ing cham­pi­on in gym­nas­tics.

They are the fu­ture of ath­let­ics and gym­nas­tics in T&T.

The Stan­dard Five pupils of Cunu­pia Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School are role mod­els to their school mates, well-dis­ci­plined, hum­ble and po­lite and have above av­er­age grades in aca­d­e­mics.

Tenique:

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia at their school on Tues­day, Tenique said "When I was younger I used to do flips, dad de­cid­ed I should do gym­nas­tics. I start­ed in a club, then he switched me to Tots & Tum­blers Gym­nas­tics Club, on Dun­don­ald Street, Port-of-Spain, where I'm at lev­el five, go­ing to lev­el six.

"My broth­er and I used to run and do races at home since we were four, dad en­rolled us in ZC Ath­let­ics Sports Club, Cunu­pia, close to where we live, we're now with Con­corde Ath­let­ics Club in Port-of-Spain.

"Af­ter that, we start­ed to run 400, 60 and 80-me­tre dash, hur­dles, 800 and he did 1,000. Af­ter we did 200 me­tres, we won lots of gold, sil­ver and some­times bronze."

She said it was not re­al­ly hard to train and study at the same time; af­ter they trained, they came home and re­vised their work.

Tenique said her train­ing reg­i­men con­sist­ed of four days of gym­nas­tics on Mon­days, Wednes­days, Fri­days and Sat­ur­days, and two days of run­ning on Sun­days and some­times Mon­days if she didn't have gym­nas­tics.

She said her favourite sub­ject was gram­mar.

Tenique's role mod­els in sports are Amer­i­can gym­nast Si­mone Biles and Ja­maican sprint­er Us­ain Bolt.

She said she al­so en­joyed dif­fer­ent gen­res of dance such as mod­ern, bal­let and hip hop.

Tenique said af­ter she rep­re­sents T&T's Olympic team in track and field and gym­nas­tics she would like to be an ac­tress.

Tyrique:

Tyrique, who was born first, said he didn't con­sid­er the train­ing that dif­fi­cult, he just liked it from young.

He said they even trained in the off­sea­son fo­cus­ing on their con­di­tion­ing.

Tyrique said he par­tic­i­pat­ed in NACAC's (North Amer­i­can, Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean) cham­pi­onships in El Sal­vador on Ju­ly 2019 in the com­bined events—long jump, high jump, ball throw, 1,000-me­tre run and 60-me­tre dash where he placed 11th over­all, re­ceived sil­ver in the high jump and bronze in the re­lay, and it was a good ex­pe­ri­ence for him.

He said his sport­ing role mod­el was the Olympic 200-me­tre and 400-me­tre cham­pi­on Amer­i­can Michael John­son be­cause of his tech­nique.

Tyrique's dream is to rep­re­sent T&T at the Olympics.

Tyrique said they will be tak­ing part in NAAA's cross coun­try cham­pi­onships at the Queen's Park Sa­van­nah to­day.

He said they were al­so in­vit­ed to At­lantic LNG's gold spon­sors for the Na­tion­al Pri­ma­ry Schools Track & Field De­vel­op­ment Camp at the Mar­vin Lee Sta­di­um, Ma­coya, yes­ter­day.

Tyrique said he likes math­e­mat­ics and did karate pre­vi­ous­ly, some of his favourite foods are coo-coo, calaloo, stew chick­en and rice.

Dad speaks:

David Vin­cent, the twins' fa­ther, a for­mer track and field ath­lete and body­builder said his wife, Lisann, used to run mid­dle dis­tance and was tall at 5 feet, 11 inch­es.

He said from birth, he knew his chil­dren would be ath­letes and a gym­nast—he bought Tenique a one­sie body­suit em­bla­zoned with "my lil gym­nast" and Tyrique be­gan walk­ing and run­ning at six months.

Vin­cent said since the twins have been win­ning Vic­tor and Vic­trix Lu­do­rum at the PCS Ni­tro­gen (now known as Nu­trien) games in the un­der-nine cat­e­go­ry, un­der-11 win­ners twice, and won in the un­der-13 cat­e­go­ry last year.

He said he was hop­ing they will win one more time be­fore they leave pri­ma­ry school.

Vin­cent said on May 6, 2017, Tenique did an im­pos­si­ble feat by win­ning the Caribbean Gym­nas­tics Clas­sic at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um and the Naaatt Com­bined Cham­pi­onships at the Mar­vin Lee Sta­di­um on the same day.

He said she was one of 12 gym­nasts who par­tic­i­pat­ed in the Kind­ness in Ac­tion—The Chil­dren's Con­cert char­i­ty show host­ed by Kids In Need of Di­rec­tion (KIND) at NA­PA on No­vem­ber 13.

Vin­cent said the twins will be writ­ing the SEA ex­am­i­na­tions on April 2, 2020, and they both have their eyes on St George's Col­lege, Barataria, as they were not ready to be sep­a­rat­ed any­time soon.

Vin­cent said he did not want his chil­dren to for­get where they came from—He aims to en­sure they are good kids, well man­nered and hum­ble.