​The sec­ond sea­son of Keshorn Wal­cott’s Gold­en League Ath­let­ics se­ries is set to be­gin on Jan­u­ary 4 at the Ed­die Hart Ground in Tacarigua, of­fer­ing valu­able com­pet­i­tive op­por­tu­ni­ties for ath­letes rang­ing from the Un­der-9 to Se­nior lev­els.

​De­signed to cater to a “wide de­vel­op­men­tal range,” the se­ries will see ath­letes in the U-9, U-11, U-13, U-15, U-17, U-20, and Open di­vi­sions com­pete for points in a league for­mat. Across the first four meets, par­tic­i­pants will vie for a spot in the Gold­en League Fi­nale, which fea­tures on­ly the top eight per­form­ers in each event.

The five-venue track and field se­ries be­gins with the first of four qual­i­fy­ing meets at the Ed­die Hart Ground then to Shaw Park in To­ba­go on Jan­u­ary 18 and, To­co Sec­ondary Ground at Wal­cott’s al­ma-mater on Jan­u­ary 31.

In Feb­ru­ary, the fourth meet will en­gage ath­letes at the Ma­haica Sport­ing Com­plex in Point Fortin be­fore cul­mi­nat­ing in the Na­tion­al Fi­nale at the Diego Mar­tin Sport­ing Com­plex, on Sa­van­nah Road on March 14.

​In last year’s fi­nale, Shi­an Lewis of the One-a-Week mul­ti-sport club, a Carif­ta Games bronze medal­ist, de­liv­ered a stand­out per­for­mance, win­ning three gold medals in the girls' U-17 400m, 800m, and 1,500m events.

​Launched in No­vem­ber 2024, the league rep­re­sents the Olympic and World cham­pi­on’s com­mit­ment to fill­ing lo­cal com­pet­i­tive gaps. By pro­vid­ing a struc­tured plat­form, Wal­cott aims to help ath­letes pre­pare for high­er lev­els of in­ter­na­tion­al com­pe­ti­tion. No­tably, Wal­cott was named a Sport Am­bas­sador in Sep­tem­ber fol­low­ing his his­toric gold medal win at the Tokyo 2025 World Cham­pi­onships.

​De­scribed as a “launch­ing pad” for the next gen­er­a­tion of na­tion­al ath­letes, ac­cord­ing to a re­lease the se­ries is “con­tin­u­ing its mis­sion to pro­vide a struc­tured, high-qual­i­ty plat­form for ath­letes to de­vel­op, com­pete, and grow at the grass­roots lev­el.”

Or­gan­is­ers say the Gold­en League is meant to strength­en the na­tion­al ath­let­ics pipeline while re­in­forc­ing the im­por­tance of sport at the grass­roots lev­el.

Each meet is free to the pub­lic and com­mu­ni­ty and school groups are en­cour­aged to show up for their ath­letes.

This year’s edi­tion is sup­port­ed by the T&T Olympic Com­mit­tee (TTOC), bmo­bile, KW Re­hab Cen­tre, Dasani, Pow­er­ade and the Massy Foun­da­tion.

Meet Sched­ule

Jan­u­ary 4: Ed­die Hart Grounds, Tacarigua

Jan­u­ary 18: Shaw Park, To­ba­go

Jan­u­ary 31: To­co Sec­ondary School Grounds

Feb­ru­ary 14: Ma­haica Sport­ing Com­plex, Point Fortin

March 14: Diego Mar­tin Sport­ing Com­plex (Fi­nale)