The tri­als for the up­com­ing North Amer­i­can, Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (NACAC) Age Group Un­der-13 and U-15 Cham­pi­onships have been moved to Dwight Yorke Sta­di­um in To­ba­go from No­vem­ber 20-21.

The two-day meet was to take place at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo but on Mon­day the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tions of T&T (NAAATT) an­nounced the change of venue. It will start at 10 am on both days as the NAAATT seek to se­lect the top ath­letes for the third edi­tion of the Age Group Cham­pi­onships set for Man­agua, Nicaragua from De­cem­ber 17-18.

The na­tion­al team will take on ath­letes from some 34 na­tions in­clud­ing host Nicaragua, An­guil­la, An­tigua and Bar­bu­da, Aru­ba, Ba­hamas, Bar­ba­dos, Be­lize, Bermu­da, British Vir­gin Is­lands, Cana­da, Cay­man Is­lands, Cos­ta Ri­ca, Cu­ba, Do­mini­ca, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, El Sal­vador, Grena­da, Guatemala, Haiti, Hon­duras, Ja­maica, Mex­i­co, Montser­rat, Puer­to Ri­co, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lu­cia, St Vin­cent and Grenadines, Turks and Caicos, US Vir­gin Is­lands, USA, Cu­ra­cao, Guade­loupe, Mar­tinique and St Maarten.

At the Ath­let­ics Sta­di­um in the Nicaraguan In­sti­tute of Sports, Plaza Es­pana, ath­letes in the U-13s pen­tathlon which in­clude five dis­ci­plines - 60-me­tre dash, 800m/1,000m (girls/boys), long jump, high jump and base­ball throw - will start the com­pe­ti­tion off.

In the U-15 cat­e­go­ry, ath­letes will bat­tle for a spot on the podi­um in the hep­tathlon, at­tempt­ing to tal­ly as many points pos­si­ble from sev­en events in­clud­ing 80m, 1,000/1,200m (girls/boys), 60/80m hur­dles (girls/boys), long jump, high jump, base­ball throw and shot put.

The NAAATT has host­ed two prepa­ra­tion meets lead­ing up to the Tri­als, the first at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um on the week­end of Oc­to­ber 16 and at the Dwight Yorke Sta­di­um in To­ba­go, a week lat­er.

Tehillah Fran­cois dom­i­nat­ed the girls' out­door pen­tathlon 11-12 cat­e­go­ry, top­ping both meets. The Ma­son Hall Po­lice Youth Club pen­tath­lete tal­lied 2,272 points in the first and im­proved at home, win­ning with 2,458 points. In sec­ond was Zenith's Toniyah Bal­four with 2,035 and De­n­e­sia Fletch­er of Zenith was third (1,904).

In the boys' ver­sion of the event, Michal Paul of Con­corde Ath­let­ic Club won with 2,863 at the open­ing prep meet while Malique Young of Zenith Ath­let­ic Club com­mand­ed the sec­ond meet with a 2,673-tal­ly.

In the U-15 Hep­tathlon, twin broth­er and sis­ter Tyrique and Tenique Vin­cent of Con­corde won their cat­e­gories at the first meet with 4,323 and 3,814, re­spec­tive­ly.  In To­ba­go, the fol­low­ing week, it was Jay­den Phillips (Ma­son Hall PYC), top­ping the boys' com­pe­ti­tion with 3,966 points while Kaori Rob­ley (Mer­cury Ath­let­ic Club) won with 3,407 points.   

These ath­letes are cur­rent­ly in prepa­ra­tion with their re­spec­tive clubs, aim­ing to shine at the two-day Tri­als for a place on the na­tion­al team.