Barbados: 19-year-old Amani Mascoll-Beckles who’s from Barbados, has obtained a scholarship from the Western Texas School in Synder, Texas. With the scholarship, Beckles is now a scholar on the faculty and has chosen to review and proceed his monitor and discipline profession.
The previous scholar of The Lodge Faculty who hails from Greens in St. George is a member of Excessive Velocity Athletic Membership. He represented Barbados on the 2022 and 2023 CARIFTA Video games, and in July 2022, he grew to become Barbados Nationwide 100m and 200m champion when he received each occasions on the 2022 Nationwide Monitor and Subject Championships.
In February final 12 months, Amani was one in all eleven athletes from Excessive Velocity Monitor Membership who competed in two athletic meets in Toronto, the place he received two gold medals.
Pearce Jordan earned a two-year athletic scholarship to Western Texas School in Synder, Texas, earlier in April 2023.
Pearce holds the file for the under-17 110m hurdles within the Frank Blackman zone and he was topped the quickest school-boy at The St Michael Faculty’s Glow Sports activities final month, when he received the under-20 Boys’ 100 metres.
At BSSAC this 12 months, Pearce who can be a member of Quantum Leap Athletic Program, positioned 2nd within the under-20 boys’ 110m hurdles, 4th in 100m sprint, third within the 200m and he was a member of The St. Michael Faculty victorious under-20 boys’ 4×100 relay group.
It was at junior nationals this 12 months when he certified for the CARIFTA Video games and in the mean time he boasts of non-public greatest instances of 10.70 seconds within the 100 metres and 21.5 seconds within the 200metres.
Pearce began his monitor and discipline journey from his major college days on the Folks’s Cathedral Faculty and Hill Prime Major and he represented each colleges at NAPSAC. As we speak, the aspiring skilled athlete is trying ahead to utilizing the alternatives in school to enhance on his instances and to achieve from his new surroundings.
Off the monitor, Pearce additionally performed soccer for St. Leonard’s Boys and Kick Begin Soccer Membership, and he was known as to Barbados under-16 soccer trials. He did music and theatre arts at college, and he loves animals. However to date he’s unsure of what he intends to pursue academically whereas at Western Texas.
The son of Andrea Pearce and Ricardo Gittens, Jadon has an curiosity in turning into a coach however he additionally has a leaning in the direction of mechanical engineering. “I like doing issues with my arms and I like vehicles”, he stated, whereas talking about how he discovered from his dad who offers with refrigeration and that piqued his curiosity in mechanical engineering.
