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UWI Mona remains “Champion Campus” for 2015 UWI Games

For Release Upon Receipt - May 29, 2015

St. Augustine


ST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad and Tobago. May 29, 2015 – Yesterday, May 28, the UWI Mona Campus track and field athletes painted the day's Games red as they dominated the events, claiming victory over all. The Mona team maintained their title of “Champion Campus” having also taken the title at the last Games in 2013 and overall, the results remained unchanged from the 2013 Games with the Cave Hill and St. Augustine Campuses taking second and third place overall respectively. Final point standings were 104, 92 and 56. The Athletics meet was the final event for the 2015 UWI Games, the biennial meeting of the four campuses of The University of the West Indies (UWI), which kicked off on May 21.

Of the 10 sporting disciplines, the Mona Campus took the titles for swimming, female basketball, netball, cricket, female football and female volleyball, in addition to athletics. Securing second place overall was the Cave Hill Campus who championed male basketball, female and male hockey, male volleyball and lawn tennis. The St. Augustine Campus placed third overall, finally taking the male football title that has been long held by the Mona Campus, as well as table tennis. For the Open Campus, the UWI’s network of smaller sites across the region, this was their first showing at the Games. The team successfully competed in netball, tennis, female volleyball and male football, but unfortunately did not take any of the individual titles.

Yesterday’s track and field meet attracted the largest crowd of the Games. There were many highpoints throughout the course of the proceedings, including the women's 100m dash in which the Mona representative Jodean Williams stumbled at the beginning of the race creating a disadvantage for her, only to sprint to first place by the end. In the women's 3000m, St. Augustine’s Crystal Warren was able to lap the second-place Mona contestant before winning the race. Warren also won the women's 1500m. In the men's 1600m medley relay, Jamar Dujon McNaughton of the Mona Campus went from last to third in the last leg of the relay and then second to first in the last few seconds of the race. St. Augustine’s Collin Pereira also gave the campus something to celebrate when he won the men's 5000m race by far in a spectacular show of stamina and determination. The Cave Hill Campus also did exceptionally well in the track and field events, coming second in almost all their races, gave a great performance as strong and challenging competitors. Notable mention can be made of their contingent, and Kemar Norgrove who had a strong and commendable presence in his races.

The UWI wishes to thank all those who made the 2015 UWI Games a success. This includes the Sport and Cultural Fund of the Office the Prime Minister, Academy Football, the Amateur Swimming Association of Trinidad and Tobago, Caribbean Airlines Limited, the Customs and Excise Division, Digicel, the Eastern Regional Sports Complex, the Immigration Division, La Joya Complex, Marlins Swimming Pool, the Ministry of Sport, the National Association of Athletic Administration, the National Basketball Federation of Trinidad and Tobago, Sam’s Transport, the Sport Company of Trinidad and Tobago, St. Anthony’s College, the Tennis Association of Trinidad and Tobago, the Tourism Development Company (TDC), the Trinidad and Tobago Airport Authority, the Trinidad and Tobago Airguard, the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard, the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board, the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force, the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force Reserves, the Trinidad and Tobago Fire Service, the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association, the Trinidad and Tobago Hockey Board, the Trinidad and Tobago Netball Association, the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee, the Trinidad and Tobago Regiment, the Trinidad and Tobago Table Tennis Association, the Trinidad and Tobago Volleyball Federation and the University of Southern Caribbean.

The next inter-campus Games are scheduled for 2017 at the Cave Hill Campus in Barbados.

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About The UWI

Since its inception in 1948, The University of the West Indies (UWI) has evolved from a fledgling college in Jamaica with 33 students to a full-fledged, regional University with well over 40,000 students. Today, UWI is the largest, most longstanding higher education provider in the Commonwealth Caribbean, with four campuses in Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Open Campus. The UWI has faculty and students from more than 40 countries and collaborative links with 160 universities globally; it offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Food & Agriculture, Engineering, Humanities & Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Science and Technology and Social Sciences. UWI’s seven priority focal areas are linked closely to the priorities identified by CARICOM and take into account such over-arching areas of concern to the region as environmental issues, health and wellness, gender equity and the critical importance of innovation. Website: www.uwi.edu

(Please note that the proper name of the university is The University of the West Indies, inclusive of the “The”, hence The UWI.)

Official Results

 

Swimming:

1st – Mona

2nd – St. Augustine

3rd – Cave Hill

Female Basketball:

1st – Mona

2nd – Cave Hill

3rd – St. Augustine

Male Basketball:

1st – Cave Hill

2nd – Mona

3rd – St. Augustine

Netball:

1st – Mona

2nd – Cave Hill

3rd – St. Augustine

Cricket:

1st - Mona

2nd - Cave Hill

3rd - St. Augustine

Female Football:

1st - Mona

2nd - Cave Hill

3rd - St. Augustine

Male Football:

1st - St. Augustine

2nd - Cave Hill

3rd - Mona

Female Hockey:

1st - Cave Hill

2nd - Mona

3rd - St. Augustine

Male Hockey:

1st - Cave Hill

2nd - St. Augustine

3rd - Mona

Female Volleyball:

1st - Mona

2nd - St. Augustine

3rd - Cave Hill

 

Male Volleyball:

1st - Cave Hill

2nd - Mona

3rd - St. Augustine

Table Tennis:

1st - St. Augustine

2nd - Mona

3rd - Cave Hill

Lawn Tennis:

1st - Cave Hill

2nd - Mona

3rd - St. Augustine

 

Track and Field:

1st - Mona

2nd - Cave Hill

3rd - St. Augustine

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