Holy Name Convent, Maria Regina excel at Schools Judo

Last year’s overall winning school, Maria Regina, leads the Primary School division with 104.5 points, only 17 points ahead of a surging Dunross with 87.5 points. Leading the charge for Dunross was Nicholas SiuButt, who won the boys Under- 11 category with his unique style of positive judo.

Also, not to be outdone was Isabel Clarke-Wills of Maria Regina who led her school to victory in the girls Under-11 category.

Nicholas’ older brother Adam of Fatima, showed his usual composure and used his skills and experience to overcome his challengers from Diego Martin Central Secondary.

Kaitlyn Bernard of Holy Name, proved why she is the top girls judo competitor in Secondary School when she came out on top of gruelling round-robin contests with other competitors from Holy Name and Bishop Anstey High School. Despite this, Holy Name still hold the lead in the girls division by 65.5 points over Bishop Anstey, and is in the lead for overall honours as the top judo school in the country. Other winners were Daniella Ramsay (Holy Name), Joshua John (St Mary’s) and Xavier Jones (Fatima). Jones and his archrival from St Mary’s Luke Walker, both world-ranked competitors by the International Judo Federation, treated the crowd with quality judo.

The final schools judo tournament will be held on June 10 where competitors would be looking to win their respective divisions and $5,000 each for their school. The school with the most points overall gets bragging rights as Champion School and the Ian Thrush Challenge Trophy for 2016/2017.