Wolmer’s Girls going through rebuilding phase

Wolmer's High School for Girls have never been one of the contending schools for the girls' title at the annual ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Championships but their prowess in the sprint events has always captured the attention of many fans.

Michael Carr, the head coach of the team, does not believe his current set of girls are capable of anything outstanding at the 2019 championships now under way at the National Stadium. According to him his team is rebuilding.

"Right now we are in a rebuilding phase and as such we are not excelling as we once did, but in life sometimes we have to go down in order to come back up. But we are working on it. Hopefully, we can rebuild in another year or two and then we should be better represented in many events," Carr told STAR Sports yesterday.

Expecting to do well

"We have two athletes who we are expecting to do well this year though, Malaika Cunningham in the Class Three high jump should be able to get on the podium and Michayla Gardener in the Class Three 100 and 200 metres should be good enough to reach the finals in both events and she is first year in the class."

Yesterday, Cunningham comfortably qualified for the final of the Class Three girls high jump, scheduled for 10:50 a.m. tomorrow, after clearing the automatic qualifying height (1.65m) on her second attempt.

Gardener registered 24.33 seconds to win her heat in the Class Three girls 200m on Tuesday. She is scheduled to run in the 100m heats this afternoon.

The likes of World and Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Jonielle Smith and Shauna Helps have all excelled for the maroon and gold at championships.

"As much as our programme is small, we try to produce good quality performances. It is not necessarily about winning Champs because what it takes to do that Wolmers' unfortunately cannot go there, " Carr said.