Two for the road: UWI Games at Cave Hill
 A large team, comprising 135 athletes and 23 cheerleaders represented the St. Augustine Campus at the 2011 UWI Games held at the Cave Hill Campus, Barbados from May 18-27.
This major sporting event provides an opportunity for hundreds of students from across the three campuses to come together as one university. This year, the St. Augustine contingent competed in basketball, cricket, football, hockey, lawn tennis, netball, swimming, table tennis, track and field, and volleyball.
Two of the St. Augustine representatives, Shervon Penco and Mauricia Nicholson, both Master’s students at the Campus, are no strangers to competition.
Though this is his second year representing St. Augustine in the UWI Games, Shervon was just as excited as he was for the first. “It’s fun for me because the games give me an opportunity to compete against the guys I usually play alongside. I like the shake up!”
Shervon currently plays for the Combined Campuses and Colleges cricket team that plays in the regional West Indies First Class Tournament, so he was familiar with some of his opponents.
At the Games, Mauricia represented St. Augustine in hockey, netball and football. It is her first time competing in the UWI Games, but Mauricia has represented Trinidad & Tobago in football at the Under 19 and Senior Team levels and at the most recent Commonwealth Games held in Delhi, India.
Mauricia and Shervon are just two examples of the talented people who represented the St. Augustine Campus at the 2011 Games, some other familiar names include Brent King (tennis), Kjorn Ottley (cricket), Niveeta Ramcharan (table tennis) and Keon Francis (shot put/discus).
For more on the just concluded UWI Games 2011, please visit http://www.cavehill.uwi.edu/sport/inter-campus-games.aspx
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