UWI St Augustine athletes go for glory

The biennial UWI competition will have participants from the three campuses Mona (Jamaica), St.

Augustine (Trinidad) Open Campus and Cave Hill (Barbados). This year’s edition will have over 500 athletes from across the Caribbean taking part in 10 sporting disciplines: basketball, cricket, football, hockey, netball, swimming table- tennis, tennis, swimming, track and field and volleyball.

The assistant manager of the St. Augustine contingent is confident that the teams will do well. “ St. Augustine is the defending champion in the sports of table-tennis and football and I think we will defend the titles this year. Also, we have a very good cricket team which includes players such as Yannick Ottley, Vikash Mohan, Brian Charles, exciting young talent Amir Jangoo and Jerlanie Seales.” At the opening ceremony yesterday at the Roy Marshall Teaching Complex, there were speeches by the Head of the Sports Academy, Amanda Reifer and Vice-Chancellor of the University of West Indies Professor Sir Hilary Beckles.

They both spoke on the theme of the UWI Games 2017 “The Making of Champions.” Vikash Mohan (cricket), representing St. Augustine, won the second annual Vice-Chancellor’s Sportsman of the Year Award. Copping the Sportswoman of the year was Shimona Nelson of the Mona Campus (Netball, Basketball Javelin).

St. Augustine Campus started of their campaign against Mona in the male football category last evening.