BVI's Trevia Gumbs, Jamaica's Glenveve Grange and Trinidad and Tobago's Chelsea James, collect the U18 Girls Shot Put medals at the CAC Jr. Championships in El Salvador. Photo: Dean Greenaway/BVIAA

Huggins, on Friday June 29, 2012, ran a personal best of 11.83 seconds, splitting the Bahamian pair of Carmiesha Cox who had a winning time of 11.70 and bronze medalist Devynne Charlton’s 11.97.

Coming into the competition, Huggins had a personal best of 11.98 seconds from last year, when she collected Carifta Games bronze in Jamaica, which she lowered to 11.91 in the prelims. By cutting .08 off to 11.83 in the final, the mark moves her from No. 8 to No. 6 on the Territory’s All Time Top 10 List.

She was fourth in the 200m on Saturday June 30, in 24.76 seconds, after running a personal best 24.56 in the prelims.
Gumbs, who took a short lived lead over the field on her second attempt before Jamaica’s Gleneve Grange unleashed a mammoth 15.04m (49’4”) toss later in the same round to snatch gold, reached 14.75m (48’4¾”) on her fourth attempt for the silver. In the process, she avenged a loss to Carifta Games champ Chelsea James of Trinidad and Tobago, who finished with the bronze after a 13.93m (45’8½”) heave.

Huggins and Gumbs became the Territory’s eighth and ninth athletes to win medals in CAC Jr. Championships since 1992, bringing the Territory’s haul to 15.

After breaking Eric “Shaq” Mathias’ Shot Put National Jr. Record dating back to 2003 with a toss of 16.32m (53’6 ½”) to finish sixth with the 6k ball, Eldred Henry finished fourth in the Discus Throw. He tossed the 1.75Kg platter 44.59m (146’3½”). His Shot Put mark was also a National Scholastic Record.

Jonel Lacey and Khari Herbert were fourth respectively, in the U18 Girls and Boys’ 400m on the final day of the 3-day competition.

Lacey ran 57.21 seconds for fourth in the 400m final, after a 57.44 semifinal during the morning session.

Herbert ran a strong race from lane one to finish .24 seconds from the podium with his fourth place finish in 48.45. He advanced to the final after running 49.01.

Kyron McMaster had a non-advancing time of 50.84 in his heat. In his first event, he narrowly missed his High Jump personal best of 1.86m (6’1¼”) with a 1.85m (6’0¾”) clearance.

Brandon Andrew narrowly missed the U18 Boys 110m Hurdles final, but settled for a National Scholastic Record time of 14.91 seconds. Andrew was 13th in the U18 Boys Long Jump after leaping 5.40m (17’8½”) on his second attempt.

For Andrew, Henry and Gumbs’ marks, they qualify for a Sol National Record breakers awards which they will collect during the 4th BVI Athletics Association Athletes Awards Recognition Gala on December 28, 2012. An athlete establishing an indoor or outdoor National Record that stands at season’s end qualifies for the award.

Tynelle Gumbs settled for fifth place in the U18 Girls Javelin Throw, with a best toss of the 500Kg spear out to 36.02m (118’2”).

After fouling her first two attempts, Kala Penn, 14, got off the board and settled for a best mark of 5.02m (16’6½”) to place sixth in the U18 Girls Long Jump. She was also sixth in the Triple Jump with a leap of 11.04m (36’2¾”).

J’Maal Alexander had a non advancing 10.72 seconds fourth place finish in his U20 Boys 100m heat, to miss one of the times posted by a fastest looser by .05 seconds. He also had a non advancing 21.99 seconds run to place 5th in the U20 Boys 200m heat.