Photo: Athletes and Dignitaries at the press launch to announce the Jamaica team to the Youth Olympics.
Jamaica’s junior athletes are set to try and repeat the feat of that of their senior counterparts achieved at the Birds Nest in Bejing,2008 Summer Olympics, at the 2nd staging of the Youth Olympics. The staging of the Youth Olympics will be held in Nanjing china, from August 16- 28. Jamaica will competing in Fencing, Beach Volley, Swimming and Track and Field, which will bear the strongest medal hopefuls of all the four sporting disciplines.
The fifteen member athletics team will be led by World Youth and World Junior Champion Jaheel Hyde (110m hurdles and 400m hurdles) and St Jago’s World Youth Champion Martin Manley (400m) leading the charge.
The remainder of the athletics team reads: Raheem Chambers (100m), Chad Walker (200m), Lushane Wilson (high jump), OBrien Waysome (long jump), Jordon Scott (triple jump), Vashon McCarthy (discus), Shanice Reid (100m), Natalliah Whyte (200m), Tiffany James (400m), Junelle Bromfield (800m), Janeek Brown (100h), Shenice Cohen (400h), and Janell Fullerton (discus). Orville Byfield will coach the athletes with Ian Forbes as manager.
Shavar Bryan and Rojey Hutchinson will represent Jamaica in Beach Volleyball and will be coached by Adrian Ramdeen.
Tia Simms Lynn will be the lone participant in the fencing event known as epee. She is based in England with her coach Andy Hill and will join the team en route to China.
The team of Timothy Wynter and Sidrell Williams will be splashing away in the pool representing Jamaica. Wynter will be participating in the in 50m, 100m and 200m backstrokes, while Williams will be in the 50m, 100m butterfly and the 50m freestyle. Syreeta Biggs is the coach.
Jamaica captured one medal, through former Wolmerian Odean skeen, who took the 100 meter crown, at the inaugural staging of the games in Singapore 2010. Jamaica finished 56 of the 88 countries that gained a medal, but is seeking to better that performance.
The team will be led by Swimming extraordinaire Jacqueline Walters who will be in a different role this time as Chef de Mission.
Accompanying the team will be GC Foster College’s sprinter Kedisha Dallas who won’t be competing, but will be Jamaica’s young ambassador with Caribbean Institution of Media and Communications (CARIMAC) Ricardo Chambers of TVJ, the young reporter in a special representative category.
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