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2023 All Eleuthera High School Track and Field
Schools from North, Central & South - compete over two days
The 2023 Eleuthera District High School Track and Field Championships were hosted over a two-day period, on Thursday, February 16th at the North Eleuthera High School’s grounds in Lower Bogue and on Friday, February 17th at the grass track facility in Rock Sound at Preston H. Albury High School.
Six senior high schools, and one junior high school took part. They were, Harbour Island All Age, Samuel Guy Pinder All Age, North Eleuhera High, Central
100m Sprints
Eleuthera High, Windermere High, Preston H. Albury High, and the Harbour Island Green School (junior high). Students, on the Thursday and Friday, competed in a variety of athletics, including 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m, 3000m, and 5000m, races - long jump, triple jump, shot put, javelin, and discus field events, as well as, 4 x 100m and 4 x 400m relay races.
As officials and volunteers got back into the swing of hosting, and implementing the event, which had not been held
KEY: since 2020, there were some organizational hiccups and ensuing adjustments - such as, the javelin events being postponed from the Thursday to the Friday, and high jump events not at all included in the two days of track and field.
Notably, in the 100 meter sprints, schools had two athletes participating. This sizeable number of athletes competing, combined with a challenge in the makeup of some of the track lanes, making them unusable, caused organizers to hold the sprints as multiple timed finals, rather than the traditional heats, followed by finals.
Student performances, with the exception of several standout talents, especially in the middle to long distance races, were also noticeably challenged, indicating perhaps both a general lack of conditioning and training of the students within the schools ahead of the competitive event.
All name spellings have not been individually confirmed and positions are as recorded at the end of the competition & are subject to change after reviews.
Effort and exuberance is seldom lacking in the athletes from all the schools and especially in the 100m Sprints, little is held in as the lines of athletes tear their paths on the edge of lines and all, toward the finish line. Sprints were generally run as two groups with times determining the winners.