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ST. LUCIA AMATEUR ATHLETICS ASSOCIATION
CALENDAR OF ACTIVITIES 2001
January
14 Cross Country (Vieux Fort)
28 Senior and Junior Challenge (MPP)
February
11 Senior and Junior Challenge (MPP)
18 Talent Identification (Canaries)
22 Independence 10 K (Gros Islet)
25 Independence Games (MPP)
March
4 Juvenile Challenge (Soufriere)
9-11 World Indoor Track Championships (Portugal)
11 Senior and Junior Challenge (Castries)
19-23 Inter-Secondary School Track Championships (MPP)
April
1 NCB/SLDB Junior Track Championships (MPP)
8 Juvenile Challenge (MPP)
13-16 Carifta Games (Barbados)
29 Co-op Bank 14 and Under Track Championships (MPP)
May
1 Winera Games (Vieux Fort)
4-6 Hampton Games (Trinidad)
20 National Track Championships (MPP)
27 Club Relays (MPP)
OECS Track Championships
June
17 Golden Mile (Castries)
24 Olympic Day 10K Run
July
5-7 CAC Juvenile Championships (Bahamas)
11-15 World Youth Track Championships (Hungary)
15-19 Francophonie Games (Hull, Canada)
20-22 CAC Senior Championships (El Salvador)
August
1 10K Road Race (Castries)
3-12 World Track Championships (Canada)
22-1 University Games (Beijing)
September
30 Road Relay (Castries)
October
7 5K Women's Road Race (Gros Islet)
14 Half-Marathon Trials (Vieux Fort)
18-20 Pan-Am Junior Track Championships (Argentina)
OECS Half-Marathon (Castries)
November
4 CAC Cross Country (Bermuda)
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Lottie Takes On Saint Leo
(14 January 2000) - Lottie Philip was a Christmas baby, born 25 December 1978. Since then, she's been busy playing netball and volleyball for Sir Ira Simmons Secondary School and in her community of Jacmel. She excelled at volleyball, going on to become a middle blocker for Cable & Wireless Ciceron Seagulls, then, St. Lucia's national team.
In 1996, she was Most Valuable Player in the Caribbean Metal Secondary School Volleyball Championships. At the 1997 Caribbean under-twenty tournament she was named best blocker, a title she also picked up in the 1999 National League.
That year she began getting attention from American universities. Coaches like her height, her athleticism and her defensive abilities. Lottie has this to say: "I love blocking and playing defense at the net, but I need to improve in the back-court." Her abilities will be tested as she enrolls this spring at Saint Leo University in South Central Florida.
Lottie'll be playing on a team that includes a number of players from Romania and several from the Florida region. Three of twelve young ladies on Saint Leo's volleyball roster are graduating this year, and Lottie is hoping that she can get plenty of playing time.
Saint Leo plays in NCAA Division II, the Sunshine State Conference. Their opponents include University of Tampa, Florida Tech, Florida Southern College, and Barry University.
Last year, the Lions just missed out on the third 20-win season in school history, and placed fourth in conference. Head coach Bill Lent hopes adding Lottie will give his team the impetus to get the school's third 20-win season, move up a spot and earn an NCAA championship berth. Lottie also has a record to live up to, as Saint Leo has had a player named to the SSC All-Freshman team for thee of the past four years.
Lottie has been listed on the Internet website www.oecsathlete.com, a service dedicated to sourcing athletic scholarships for young persons from the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States. She's one of five St. Lucian women volleyballers to have been accepted at American schools in recent months. National players Gifta Dujon, Garvinia Gill and Signa President are currently in their first year at Concordia University in New York, along with Leanne St. Rose.
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Choppy Home Start For Windwards
(12 January 2001) - West Indies B after battling for a 200-total, grabbed two Windward Islands wickets to leave their second round Busta Series match evenly poised at end of the opening day at the Arnos Vale Playing Field.
At the close, the Windward Islands, replying to West Indies B's first innings 213 all out, were 10 for two with John Sylvester not out on six.
The wickets to fall were Devon Smith and Romel Currency, both for just two runs each.
Fastbowler Jermaine Lawson with one for six, and off-spinner Suleiman Benn one for two, were the wicket-takers.
The West Indies B, who were sent to bat, owed their first innings score to a pugnacious 81 from their dapper number six Tonito Willet.
Leg-spinner Orlando Jackson with four for 59, pacer McNiel Morgan (three for 38) and off-spinner Shane Shillingford (two for 46), shared the wickets for the Windwards.
When the Windwards batted in the 30 minutes play remaining, they lost both their openers.
Smith failed to keep down a lifting ball from Lawson and only succeeded in fending the ball back to the bowler, and Currency was neatly taken at silly point in the day's last over with the total on 10.
The start of play was delayed by 40 minutes because of seepage from overnight and early morning showers.
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St. Lucia To Face Guyana in Copa 2001
The organisers of the 2001 Copa Caribe have again changed the dates for the tournament. According to a media release from the General Secretary of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Harold Taylor, the emergency committees of both Fifa and the Football Confederation have advised that the Copa Caribe tournament should be completed by May 25, 2001. The tournament, which was expected to conclude on July 29, will now climax on May 25 in Trinidad and Tobago.
In preliminary competition, St. Lucia will travel to Guyana to play in Group I, which will also include the hosts, Dominica and one from either St Martin, Anguilla or Montserrat. Preliminary competition will be played March 14, 16, 18, and if St. Lucia is successful they'll go through to the Final Competition in May, along with the other four group winners, hosts Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and a Guest Team.
It's a relatively easy draw for St. Lucia, and with the new Fifa rulings on the structure of international tournaments, all overseas-based players ought to be available to whomever is named as national coach. In fact, as the tournament is ending by May, former technical coordinator and W Connection coach Stuart Charles-Fevrier may well be called back into the national fold on an official basis. If he is given a free hand in selecting his team he'll have available the eight St. Lucian players on his books at WCFC as well as players such as Ricardo Blanchard, Kerry Regis and David Flavius in the United States.
In 1991, when the then-Shell Caribbean Cup finals were held in Jamaica, St. Lucia attained its best finish ever, third place. Three other times during the first half of that decade, St. Lucia made the finals, only to miss out with disappointing performance in the late 90's.
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