Gordon, Borel-Brown top NAAA athletes

Borel-Brown copped the top female award from the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC) recently.

Grodon, a former Queen’s Royal College (QRC) student also walked away with the Junior Male Athlete of the Year and has been the first athlete to have won the top award in the junior and senior divisions.

Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs Anil Roberts called for better performances among the TT athletes this year, as he said it would be the qualifying year for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, England.

Roberts also called on Gordon to better the performances of American Edwin Moses — who amassed a record of 122 consecutive wins in the 400 metre hurdles during his career.

To date Gordon, who turned professional in June last year, secured the gold medal at the World Junior Championship in Moncton, Canada in the 400 metre hurdles and has a season best time of 48.47 seconds.

The lanky Gordon also set a blistering 13.41 seconds in the 110 metre hurdles in Georgetown last year.

Borel-Brown has a personal best throw of 19.03 metres which was achieved in August last year at the London Grand Prix, which adds to an indoor distance of 19.48 metres that she achieved in 2004.

Borel Brown got the nod for the top female senior athlete ahead of Kelly Ann Baptiste who set a blistering 10.84 seconds in the 100 metres early last year which, at the time, was the second fastest time for the year among the women.

Kai Selvon was voted the top female athlete for 2010.

Awardees 2010:

GU-11 – Cheziah Phgillip (Unattached)

BU-11 – Adell Colthrust (S/Athletics)

GU-13 – Alisha St Louis (D’Abadie)

BU-13 – Jahi Hernandez (Hampton)

GU-15 – (Track) – Kayelle Clarke (La Brea)

GU-15 – (Field) – Britney Bedlow (W/Springfield)

BU-15 – (Track) – Nicholas Douglas (Zenith)

BU-15 – (Field) – Kenejah Williams (W/Springfield)

GU-17 – (Track) – Kernesha Spann (N/Trackers)

GU-17 – (Field) – Charisse Murray (Toco)

BU-17 – (Track) – Mark London (Zenith)

BU-17 – (Field) – Hezekiel Romeo (Memphis)

GU-20 – (Track) – Kai Selvon (A/B Sonics)

GU-20 – (Field) – Ashlee Smith (Phoenix)

Boys U-20 – (Track) – Jehue Gordon (Memphis)

BU-20 – (Field) – Quincy Wilson (H/Olympians)

Women Open (Track) – Kelli Ann Baptiste (Zenith)

Women Open (Field) – Cleopatra Borel-Brown (Eagles)

Men Open (Track) – Jehue Gordon (Memphis)

Men Open (Field) – Quincy Wilson

Most Outstanding male Road Runner – Richard Jones

Most Outstanding Female Road Runner – Shermin La Saldo

Outstanding Performances

Kelli Ann Baptiste 10.84s

Jehue Gordon (48.47s) (13.41)

4 x 100 World Junior (Jamol James, Sabian Cox, Moriba Morain, Shermund Allsop) 39.72

4 x 100 Men CAC Games (Rondell Sorillo, Mark Burns, Emmanuel Callender, Keston Bledman) 38.24

Rhonda Watkins CAC LJ record 6.67

Cleopatra Borel-Brown19.30 m

Hezekiel Romeo 17.46

Kenejah Williams (W/Springfield)

Tonya Nero (10,000m 33.32)

Pilar Mc Shine (1500m 4.14.23)

Junior Male Athlete 2010

Jehue Gordon

Junior Female Athlete 2010

Kai Selvon

Senior Male Athlete 2010

Jehue Gordon

Senior Female Athlete 2010

Cleopatra Borel-Brown