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Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Cupid, Paul head T&T team to NACAC Age Group Champs

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Clayton Clarke
784 days ago
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Makay­la Cu­pid of Zenith Ath­let­ics Club and Con­corde's Michael Paul are among eight ath­letes who will be rep­re­sent­ing T&T at the North Amer­i­can, Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (NACAC) Age-Group Cham­pi­onships in San­ti­a­go, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic on Ju­ly 15-16.

Cu­pid and her Zenith club­mate La'Shiya Big­gart will be com­pet­ing in the girls' Un­der-15 pen­tathlon. Cu­pid won the event with 3,418 points at the NACAC Tri­als at the Dwight Yorke Sta­di­um, Ba­co­let, To­ba­go from June 2-4, ahead of Big­gart (3,387).

The Spring Gar­den res­i­dent earned her sec­ond na­tion­al se­lec­tion for the year af­ter she was a mem­ber of the T&T con­tin­gent to the Carif­ta Games in the Ba­hamas in April.

Paul and Aaron Radg­man of Zenith are the lo­cal com­peti­tors in the boys' U-15 hep­tathlon. At the Tri­als, Paul pre­vailed with 4,695 with Radg­man in sec­ond (4,679). Paul had qual­i­fied to com­pete at the 2021 edi­tion of the meet but the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tions of T&T (NAAATT) opt­ed not to send a team cit­ing trav­el and lo­gis­ti­cal chal­lenges.

Dai­ja Reid (Zenith) and Ryan­na Reg­is (Mer­cury) se­cured their spots in the girls' U-13 pen­tathlon af­ter Reid won the Tri­als (2,411) with Reg­is in the run­ner-up spot (2,126).

Kevin Hen­ry (Rss Phoenix) and Ja­fari Ed­wards (Mer­cury) will wear the na­tion­al colours in the boys' U-13 pen­tathlon. Hen­ry was first at the tri­als (2,551) ahead of Ed­wards (2,544).

Sev­en of the eight ath­letes are from To­ba­go. Paul is from Trinidad.

Coach of Zenith Kelsey Tou­s­saint-Reid, Mer­cury head coach Soren Bish­ops, along with Shaun Stu­art (coach of Burn­ley) are the team coach­es. NAAATT as­sis­tant gen­er­al sec­re­tary Michelle Stoute-Lopez is the team man­ag­er. No med­ical per­son­nel has been named to ac­com­pa­ny the young ath­letes. The team held its lone train­ing ses­sion at the Dwight Yorke Sta­di­um on Mon­day.

The na­tion­al con­tin­gent is set to de­part for the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic on Ju­ly 11 for a train­ing camp on Ju­ly 12-13.


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