Young T&T javelin throw­er Tyriq Hors­ford and 400 me­tres sprint­er Rae-Anne Serville claimed gold medals on Sat­ur­day as day two of the NACAC Un­der-18, 20 and Un­der-23 Cham­pi­onships con­tin­ued at the Es­ta­dio Na­cional in San Jose, Cos­ta Ri­ca.

GROS ISLET, St Lu­cia – Rook­ie let-arm seam­er Obed Mc­Coy pro­duced a dev­as­tat­ing four-wick­et haul to en­gi­neer a sen­sa­tion­al Aus­tralia col­lapse, as West In­dies clawed their way back to win the open­ing Twen­ty20 In­ter­na­tion­al by 18 runs on Fri­day night.

It seems pret­ty much as though all hands are on deck in the T&T Rug­by Foot­ball Union (T&TR­FU) un­der new pres­i­dent Maria Thomas, ahead of a high­ly-an­tic­i­pat­ed re­sump­tion of on-the-field rug­by soon.

Ver­non Charles, the grand­fa­ther of T&T's Olympic Gold and bronze medal­lists in the javelin throw Keshorn Wal­cott, has died.

GROS ISLET, St Lu­cia – Obed Mc­Coy said he made key ad­just­ments to his bowl­ing plan in or­der to hurt the Aus­tralians in Fri­day night’s open­ing Twen­ty20 In­ter­na­tion­al.

Coach­es can de­vel­op psy­cho­log­i­cal­ly mo­ti­vat­ed ath­letes with pos­i­tive self-re­gard by cre­at­ing self-worth and a sense of be­long­ing and by lim­it­ing judg­men­tal com­par­isons to oth­er ath­letes’ suc­cess. Coach­es can al­so boost au­ton­o­my in their ath­letes by en­cour­ag­ing self-mon­i­tor­ing, per­for­mance re­flec­tion, and hon­est eval­u­a­tion of phys­i­cal and emo­tion­al well-be­ing.

T&T’s Leah Bertrand and Kion Ben­jamin sprint­ed to sil­ver and bronze medals, re­spec­tive­ly while Dil­lon Lea­cock, the lone com­peti­tor in the men's 400m hur­dles, claimed gold in the evening ses­sion on the first day of the North Amer­i­can, Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (NACAC) U-23 and U-18 Cham­pi­onships, on Fri­day in Cos­ta Ri­ca.

ST JOHN’S – Off-spin­ner Anisa Mo­hammed’s clin­i­cal four-wick­et ef­fort wrecked Pak­istan Women and set up a com­fort­able eight-wick­et vic­to­ry, as West In­dies strolled to a 2-0 lead in the five-match One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al se­ries in An­tigua on Fri­day.

In­ter­im So­ca War­riors coach, for­mer na­tion­al An­gus Eve will be hop­ing to con­tin­ue his un­beat­en run at the helm of the team when T&T come up against reign­ing cham­pi­on Mex­i­co in their Con­ca­caf Gold Cup Group A open­er on Sat­ur­day night from 10 pm.

Trinidad and To­ba­go's So­ca War­riors over­seas-based quar­tet of Kevin Moli­no, Ryan Telfer, Aubrey David and Nick­las Fren­derup were all named in the Best XI of the 2021 Con­ca­caf Gold Cup Pre­lim­i­nary round.

Per­sons in­ter­est­ed in fill­ing the po­si­tions of Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Spe­cial­ist and Strength and Con­di­tion­ing Coach of the se­nior women's na­tion­al team will have un­til Sun­day to ap­ply as ad­ver­tised by the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) through the Fi­fa-in­stalled Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee head­ed by busi­ness­man Robert Hadad.

What a fab­u­lous week­end for sport. Tele­vi­sion sets will be work­ing over­time from ear­ly Fri­day right un­til late Sun­day night. You name your sport and it’s go­ing to be show­ing from crick­et to foot­ball to Wim­ble­don to bas­ket­ball. Is that enough for now?