Barbados: Nathan Phillips has participated within the 100m, 200m and 300m, occasions within the 2024 Nationwide Main College Athletic Championships. He expressed pleasure and mentioned that he’s not daunted by the longer distances and competing with the marginally older boys.
“It isn’t that difficult”, he mentioned when requested if it was a little bit of a problem for him, “I can deal with it”, he assured us whereas additionally noting that he is aware of most of his competitors as he trains with a lot of them.
Judging from his wins at his faculty sports final month, the place he gained the 100m, 200m, and 300m within the under-11 boys’ division and the title of victor Ludorum once more this yr, Nathan appears very a lot on observe.
The gifted younger athlete who turns 9 on thirtieth March, trains three days per week and he has competed in three tournaments already this yr within the under-11 division and he has proven that he’s snug within the larger division. In January he competed in two membership meets the place he was profitable in his occasions and on the Valley Fever final weekend, Nathan worn out his competitors within the 100m and 300m for under-11 boys.
With the will to turn out to be an expert athlete, Nathan likes to observe Usain Bolt movies and he named him as one among his favorite sports activities personalities.
Outdoors of that fierce aggressive nature on the observe, Nathan, enjoys sports activities like cricket, soccer and using his bike and like all boys his age, he confesses, “I like to play”. Nonetheless, he pays consideration to his schoolwork and ensures that his homework is finished after he will get residence from coaching.
At college, the category two pupil was voted on to the scholar council by his friends and academics, a sworn statement to his good conduct and character and he attends church on the Lodge Highway Wesleyan Holiness Church.
Nathan has a pet canine, ‘Abby’ and he’s a task mannequin to his youthful sister Hanna, who seems to be as much as her ‘massive brother’. Like Nathan, Hanna is a budding younger athlete and she or he can be anticipated to compete at NAPSAC later this month.
Hanna got here first within the tennis ball throw and 2nd within the 50 meter sprint at her faculty sports activities and she or he gained the zone’s tennis ball throw for under-7 ladies and the broad bounce at NAPSAC discipline occasions and she or he will likely be operating the 50m race at NAPSAC. She had a ‘follow session’ when she competed within the latest ‘Valley Fever Monitor Meet’ with Nathan and she or he positioned third within the 50m sprint in her division and was seventh within the broad bounce.
Nathan and Hanna are the youngsters of Dewyn and Alonda Phllips who’re very supportive of their kids and who’re conscious of the significance of serving to kids to discover their abilities and luxuriate in life with out dependancy to screens.
Nathan doesn’t have a cellphone of his personal, neither is he a frequent consumer of a pill or any machine. As a substitute, he enjoys his sports activities, enjoying with magnetic legos and he additionally likes robotics.
Final yr on the 2023 Nationwide Main College Athletic Championships (NAPSAC), Nathan Phillips created a stir when he gained 9 straight races within the boys under-9 division starting within the zonal meets and ending within the finals.
Competing within the 80m, 100m, and the 150m races for the Vauxhall Main College, (now renamed Shirley Chisholm College), Nathan gained his three races within the Patsy Callender zone which took him to the semi-finals of NAPSAC. He gained his three races within the semi-finals and after successful them once more within the finals, he earned the factors to be declared the victor Ludorum within the finals at NAPSAC.
This yr, Nathan who’s a member of the Bounce Begin Athletic Membership moved as much as the under-11 division and he’s now competing within the 100m, 200m and 300m occasions, however he’s
