BoltTEN OF the island's top junior athletes will fly to New York on Wednesday to compete in the Scholastic High School Championships scheduled for the Armoury in Manhattan.
The Jamaicans will compete for the first time in the event which will see the top high school athletes in and around New York competing.
Leading the strong male team is World Junior Championships 200m gold medalist Usain Bolt. The other members of the boys team are Winston Hutton, Orion Nicely, Jermaine Gonzales and Jermaine Myers.
The female team will include Kerron Stewart, Nickeisha Anderson, Camille Robinson, Shaunette Davidson and Kayon Thompson. All the athletes competed for Jamaica at last year's World Junior Championships.
The athletes will enter the meet full of confidence following their performances at the recent Carifta Trials.
Bolt won the Under 20 boys 200m and finished second to Gonzales in the 400m. Nicely captured the 200m while Hutton finished second to Tesfa Latty in the 100m where both athletes were credited with the same time. Myers who did not compete at the Trials ran a sensational anchor leg for Holmwood Technical's 4x400m relay team at the Gibson Relays.
Among the females Stewart who clocked 11.53 to win the girls under 20 100m at the Trials will lead the way. Anderson was second in the 200m while Robinson captured the 400m hurdles and Thompson and Davidson finished second in their respective events. Thompson was second in the 800m while Davidson was runner-up in the high jump.
The three-day championships will start on Friday and the athletes will be accompanied by coaches Maurice Wilson and Raymond Graham with Janet Stephens as female official.
