Roxanne Schurton wins Silver for Faith and UTECH

Roxanne Schurton wins Silver for Faith and UTECH

Team Faith Crowned Champions


By Trevesa Ashman and Michael Schurton, Sports Champs Senior Editors
August 17, 2010, Kingston, Jamaica

Roxanne Schurton registered a memorable performance to win silver in the women’s 100m at the Word Time Ministries of Jamaica 10th Annual Sports Championships, held at St. Andrew High School, St. Andrew, Jamaica, Saturday, June 26, 2010

The event created fever pitch excitement which was billed as the Match of the Members, 100m women’s. Roxanne Schurton of Team Faith bolted from the blocks and posted a great run to clock 14:22 seconds. Roxanne Schurton who led the race for the most part up to the last 90 meters bravely held on for a well earned silver medal.

Marathon runner Kim Kerry-Ann Thompson of team Hope who clocked 14:19 seconds just managed to strike gold. Thompson pulled ahead of Schurton who kept her cool despite hearing the footsteps of Thompson in the closing stages of the race. Trevesa DaSilva- Ashman also of Team Faith stopped the clock at 14:59 seconds and earned well deserved bronze medals.

The match up of the three members representing their respective universities was like a mini intercollegiate meet. It was three the hard way featuring University of Technology, University College of the Caribbean and University of the West Indies.

In the end the Old Hope Road based University College of the Caribbean took top honours and won gold courtesy of Marathon runner Kim Kerry-Ann Thompson. University of Technology students and the Hope Road community celebrated the determined silver medal run by Roxanne Schurton. Schurton looked quite comfortable in her run and executed well. However, she ran out of real estate as the UCC’S distance runner found another gear and powered away passing Schurton in the last 10 meters. University of the West Indies represented by Trevesa DaSilva Ashman took home the bronze to Mona. DaSilva-Ashman did no disappoint and proved that she was not afraid to test faith and her skills against the season’s top favourites Schurton and Thompson.

This was the first time Thompson was competing at Sports Championships. She was gracing the tracks as an athlete, but has been involved in Sport Championships since 2004 as a sponsor. However both Schurton and DaSilva-Ashman have won multi gold, silver and bronze medals in both the track and field events of the meet.

Roxanne Schurton is currently ranked number four in the medal accumulation tally from 2003 when she first competed in Sports Champs. Schurton has a total of 16 medals, 3 gold, 8 silver and 5 bronze. She has won silver medals in the Class 2 women’s 100m, 4x100m, and bronze in the 50m and 4x100 leadership relays. She mined double gold medals in the field events in football and volley ball and silver in both cheerleading competition and volleyball.

Trevesa DaSilva-Ashman is ranked number 14 medal accumulation tally from 2002. Trevesa’s medal tally is 7 medals, 5 silver and two bronze, but have missed gold in both the field and track events. She is a silver and bronze medalist in women’s 100m and 100m sack race. She had won silver medals in the 4x100m leadership relay and both volley ball and cheerleading competition.

In the Match of the Members, men’s 100m, Michael McLeish (Faith) of MPIXEL made no mistake in the Match of the Members. McLeish cruised to victory in 14:34 seconds ahead of Richard Lawrence (Hope) of JUTC who settled for silver in a time of 14:42 seconds. Lawrence is a double gold medalist in the men’s 100m leadership relay

The Showcase of the Sponsors created excitement and intrigue. Kadian Dyke of Churches Co-operative Credit Union Limited representing Team Hope took gold, while Kenicia Smith of Island Grill representing Team Faith took silver and Patrice Grandison of Optimist Club of UWI Mona representing Team Faith won bronze. Pandemonium broke out as another thriller of the event unfolded in the Showcase of the Sponsors 100m Males. Dwight, “Thrifty Bee the Mascot” (Hope) representing Churches Co-operative Credit Union Limited won gold in a time of 15:71. Dean Jones (Hope) his teammate tried hard for a sliver posting 16:74 and Garvin Grandison (Faith) representing Optimist Club of UWI Mona, bronze 16:84. Thrifty Bee was given a 50m head start and buzzed and tumbled his way to the finish line. The crowd erupted in sheer delighted as the mascot was a gold medalist at Sports Champs 2010.

Team Faith deservedly was crowned champions with 2380 points. Faith recorded a medal haul of 14 gold, 8 silver and 10 bronze medals. Faith also mined another 8 gold medals in the quality awards, a total of 23 gold medals. Team Hope former fives time champions placed second with 2175 points, and secured 11 gold, 15 silver and 11 bronze. The season’s defending champions Team Love plummeted to last position with 1415 points. Team Love tried desperately hard but could only managed a record low medal tally. Love won 3 gold, 6 silver and 7 bronze medals.

Athletes from several primary, junior high, community groups, colleges and universities gave brilliant performances thrilling the brave spectators who came to witness the historic event. Rohan Walker’s scintillating record breaking performances was instrumental in Team Faith’s historic win at Sports Champs 2010. He won emphatic victories in the Class 2 and Class 3 100m, 200m, 400, and the Class 2 and Class 3, 4x100 relays.

Faith’s superb performances and inspiriting determination made the Sunshine Crew shinned once again at the proved to be Faith’s day to rejoice and be glad.