Ju­nior Sports­woman of the Year of 2018 and 2019 and the Carif­ta 200 me­tres Un­der-17 cham­pi­on, Shani­qua Bas­combe, will make her ea­ger­ly-await­ed ap­pear­ance to­day in sec­tion two of the U-20 Girls 100 me­tres event at the NGC NAAA track and field se­ries.

The fifth meet of the se­ries will take place to­day at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Port-of-Spain, from 10 am

Some 48 events will be con­test­ed with many ath­letes aim­ing at get­ting un­der the qual­i­fy­ing stan­dard for the Carif­ta Games sched­uled for Bermu­da Au­gust 13-15 and the Olympics Games from Ju­ly 23 -Au­gust 8.

Bas­combe, who was in­jured and al­so had a bro­ken left hand, has re­cov­ered ful­ly and is ex­pect­ed to ex­cel on her come­back run in the U-20 cat­e­go­ry. How­ev­er, she needs to run un­der 11.80 sec­onds to ad­dress the se­lec­tors. Her sternest chal­lenges will come from Kyah La For­tune of Sim­plex and Chimi­ka Prescott of Con­corde Ath­let­ic Club.

Carif­ta sprint gold medal­list Devin Au­gus­tine of Point Fortin New Jets (PFNJ) is im­prov­ing and will be dif­fi­cult to peg back over the same dis­tance in the U-20 Boys cat­e­go­ry.

Au­gus­tine was im­pres­sive when last seen and it will take an ex­cep­tion­al per­for­mance from Kern Ce­de­no of FAS or Ayele Joseph of MAP to low­er his colours.

Olympian Ron­dell Sor­ril­lo will make an ap­pear­ance in the men's 100 me­tres event. Sor­ril­lo of La Brea Ath­let­ics will be pressed by Nathan Far­in­ha and Do­minic Cole of Abi­lene Wild­cats.

The U-17 Boys 100m event looks to have some very in­ter­est­ing tal­ent and with on­ly two ath­letes get­ting un­der the re­quired NAAA stan­dard of 11.10 many will be seek­ing to do just that. In heat one, Nicholas Bobb of Cougars looks set to make a big im­pres­sion and is well fan­cied to up­stage Caleb Al­fred of To­ba­go Fal­cons and Daniel John of Burn­ley Ath­let­ics.

In sec­tion three of the event, it looks to be a "Bat­tle Royale" be­tween Jor­dan Noel of Cougars, Enoch Joseph of Mount­ing Ea­gles and Ha­keem Chi­napoo of Sim­plex.

In the Girls U-17 cat­e­go­ry, Janae De­Gannes of Con­corde will throw down the gaunt­let to two tough ri­vals in reign­ing cham­pi­on Jani­ka Jor­dan of Cougars and Kazi­ah Pe­ters of Sim­plex.

In the U-20 Boys 400m, sev­er­al young stars will be on pa­rade as Avin­dale Smith and Sha­keem McK­ay of Abi­lene will bat­tle for ho­n­ours with Jor­dan Pope of Con­corde, Malachi Hay­wood of PFNJ and Ethan Forde of Cougars.