Photo: Champs 2015 Super Athlete Ayesha Champagnie tallied 30 points for her school St. Andrew Technical High School (STATHS) at the ISSA/Grace Kennedy Boys and Girls Championships.
It is the amount of points accumulated at Champs that determines who stands tall at the end of each staging of the annual ISSA Boys and Girls Championship, but there is a sense of pride and accomplishment that comes with being crowned individual overall champion and also for the class in which you participate.
These individual champion boys and girls are not necessarily part of the winning teams because the honours go to the athletes who accumulate the highest number of points for individual events they participate in at the various classes.
The winners for 2015 are as follows ;
Overall Champion Boy: Michael O’Hara (27 points) – Calabar High: The captain of the ‘Lions’ was simply brilliant in winning three individual Gold medals. He won the 100m, the 200m. and the 110m hurdles battling strong headwinds to record decent times.
Overall Champion Girl: Ayesha Champagnie (30 points ) – St. Andrew Technical High: The Iron Lady of Champs 2015 won the Heptathlon Open, the Class One Javelin and Shot Put, the latter in a new record 14.27m.
Boys Class One – Michael O’Hara (27) over Demar Gayle ( 18) of Edwin Allen and Obrien Wasome ( 18) of Jamaica College.
Boys Class Two – Javauney James ( 21 ) of STETHS over Rasheeda Downer of Kingston College, Paketo Dudley ( 18) of Jamaica College and the impressive Calabar pair of Dejour Russell (18) and Christopher Taylor ( 18),
Boys Class Three – Javier Johnson ( 16) of Green Island High over Dwight Mason ( 14) of STETHS.
Girls Class One -Natalliah Whyte of St. Jago (18) over Holmwood’s ‘Warrior Princess’, Lisa Buchanan ( 18).
N.B Buchanan won the 3000 which is run as an open event; in addition to her 800 and 1500m double. Champagnie also competed in two open events in the Javelin and Hepathalon, hence those events cannot be considered Class One events.
Girls Class Two – Yanique Dayle of Hydel High (19) over Shellece Clarke of Edwin Allen (18), Shot Put and Discus champion Fiona Richards (18) of Buff Bay and St Jago’s Tassanna Hickling (18).
Girls Class Three – St. Jago’s Kimone Shaw (18) and Annia Ashley (18) of Edwin Allen were the joint champions over Anna-Kay Allen ( 16) of St. Catherine High.
Girls Class Four – Joanne Reid of St. Jago (18 points ) over Kevona Davis (14) of Edwin Allen.
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