( left - right ) CALVERT and O'CONNOR
CAMPION'S THEON O'Connor, Holmwood's Schillonie Calvert and St. Jago's Natasha Ruddock head a 24-member Jamaica team selected by the Jamaica Amateur Athletics Association (JAAA) for the fourth IAAF World Youth Championships in Marrakesh, Morocco.
O'Connor, the 2005 CARIFTA Games Austin Sealey award winner, heads the 12 boys, while Calvert, a World Junior bronze medallist, and Ruddock, a three-time CARIFTA Games Under-17 100m hurdles winner, heads the 12 girls.
Sprinter Calvert and sprint hurdler Ruddock are bronze medals favourites in their respective event.
At the last World Youth Championships in Sherbrooke, Canada, Jamaica - led by Usain Bolt and Anneisha McLaughlin - won four medals.
Bolt and McLaughlin won gold medals in the 200m for boys and girls, respectively. Lotaya Greaves and the girls' medley team won silver medals.
FULL SQUAD
The squad is:
Men: Cawyne Jervis, KC (100m, 200m, medley); Yohan Blake, St. Jago (100m, medley); Triston Taylor, Central (200m, medley); Teo Bennett, JC (400m, medley); Oshane Barham, KC (400m); Theon O'Connor, Campion (800m); Andre Thomas, Greater Portmore (800m); Kerion Stewart , KC (110m hurdles); Andre Collins, JC (110m hurdles); Romel Lewis, Holmwood (400m hurdles); Julian Reid, Wolmer (long jump) and Robbert Peddlar, Wolmer's (triple jump).
Female: Schillonie Calvert, Holmwood (100m, 200m, medley); Latoya King, St. Jago (100m, 200m medley); Kimberly Williams, Vere (triple jump); Kimona Smith, Morant Bay (triple jump); Bobby-Gaye Wilkins, Holmwood (400m, medley); Shakeeri Cole, Edwin Allen (400m, medley); Keno Heaven, Cambridge (800m); Vanessa Boyd, Holmwood (800m); Natasha Ruddock, St. Jago (100m hurdles, medley); Shermaine Williams, Alpha (100m hurdles); Andrea Sutherland, Edwin Allen (400m hurdles), and Judith Riley, Manchester (400m hurdles).
Management: Trevor Campbell (manager), Alfred Francis and Patricia Thomas (assistant managers), Dr. Paul Wright and Gaynor Downer, physiotherapist, (medical team); Raymond 'KC' Graham (head coach); Leacroft Bolt, Mark Prince and Michael Russell (coaches).
