UG track and field C/ships…
The Faculty of Social Sciences reclaimed the Inter-Faculty Track and Field Championships last Friday after three years by dethroning the Faculty of Natural Sciences last Friday at the University of Guyana ground, Turkeyen.
Defending champions Natural Sciences held the lead for most of the day until a thrilling come-back effort from the Social Sciences’ athletes in the final few events saw them surpassing the leaders.
Social Sciences secured a dramatic six-point win after amassing 275 points while Natural Sciences followed in second place with 269.
The School of Education and Humanities placed third with 215 points, while the Faculty of Technology, winners of the recently concluded Inter-Faculty basketball tournament placed fourth. University of Guyana’s Berbice Campus placed fifth with 131 points while School of Earth and Environmental Sciences (SEES) placed sixth with 71 points. The Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry stole the penultimate position with 55 points while the health conscious athletes from the Faculty of Health Sciences finished last.
Social Sciences managed to steal the championship trophy with two dominant wins in the men’s and women’s 4x400m relays to close out the event. Before those events, Social Sciences steadily occupied second place.
Social Sciences athlete Elton Bollers, who was nearly thrown out of the 100m for a false start in the preliminaries, managed to edge out Drexel Noble (11.1s) in the 100m final.
Bollers, won the 100m in 10.9s, had another false start in the 200m which prevented him from vying for the sprint double. Kim Chan of the Faculty of Technology, won the 100m in 13.8s ahead of Malika Charles of Natural Sciences and Onika Fraser.
Ian Campbell, who was also part of the Social Science 4x4000m team along with Bollers, Kiev Chesney and Dequan Murray, won the men’s 400m.
Social Sciences also won the men’s 4x100m relay and was later adjudged the winner of the Digicel Relay Championships for the second year running.
Defending 200m champion Carlene Waithe stunned Chan to retain her title while three-time female champion athlete Alex Williams won the 400m. Williams also won the 3000m and 800m but was beaten by former national athlete Kenisha Lashley in the 1500m.
Stephon Josiah also retained his male champion athlete trophy after winning the 5000m and men’s long jump. Josiah placed second in the 1500m to Dane Johnson from Natural Sciences. Johnson also won the men’s 800m ahead of former national athlete Chesney.
