The Virgin Islands Track & Field Federation
  40th Year Anniversarysary

NEWS/NOTES

Laverne Jones runs 11.29 w in the 100m at Michael Johnson Classic...pr's with a 23.16...Congrats to V.I. National Junior Team: Juan Robles, Bronze in 3000 (9:53)...Sanny Eugene Bronze in 800 (2:18)...Lester Liburd and Calvin Dascent advance in 400...Tyfia Lee, 400, 200...Chaynae Roger, Shot Put, Long Jump...

NACAC Under 23 Championships Sherbrooke, Canada on July 30, 31, and August 1, 2004
Standards for NACAC U-23 (Sherbrooke, 2004)


   
Lisah Hamilton (left) took first place in the Runner's World Half-Marathon in Allentown, Pennsylvania April 24 with a time 1:21 and will run the Grandma's Marathon in June as an Olympic qualifier...


Laverne Jones, (above) University of Oklahoma All-American 60 & 200m Indoor......Jones won the 100m at the Michael Johnson Classic 4/17/04 with a 11.29  w...she ran a personal best in the 200m with a time of 23.16...she has now qualified for the 100m, 200m & 400m NCAA Regional meet.


Adrian Durant, Sophomore at the University of South Carolina, set and indoor 200m national record for the V.I. in the World Indoor
Championships last year. 


Billy Bohlke (right) Wins Pensacola 15K
...wins Blue Angel Marathon in 2:32,
his debut in the event...

...wins 22nd Annual National Library Week 5K in 15:34
race record time...Paradise 5K to be last tune-up for
Nebraska Marathon, Olympic qualifier...

The Cipriani Phillip Sprint Classic

Entry Forms/Information click here


Senior Athlete Performances:
Laverne Jones, Sprints, University of Oklahoma
Rodney Pitts, Sprints, Abilene Christian
Adrian Durant, Sprints, University of South Carolina
 Lisa Hamilton, Long Distance
Kenneth Telemarque, Sprints, South Carolina State
Lawrence Lockhart, Middle Distance, Louisiana State University
Shanna Williams, Sprints, Florida Atlantic University
Sherma Aurelien, Middle Distance, Savanah State University
Rodneyscha Pitts, Sprints
Kadie Joseph, Sprints, Morgan State University
 Billy Bohlke, U.S. Air Force, Middle Distance
George Willocks, Long Jump
Shantele Paul, Duquesne University
 Ruth Ann David, Distance
Darriien Giddings, Cowley Community College, Sprints, Decathlon
Stewart Hypolite, Cowley Community College, Sprints, Decathlon
Rubin Irwin, Sprints
Rachel Witty, Long Distance
Xamara Gomez, Wichita State University
Evilese Gomez, Cowley Community College
Theresa Harper, Long Distance

Julio Felix, Sprints, Inter-American University
Valma Bass, Sprints
Calvin Dallas, Long Distance
Amalee Lockhart, Middle Distance, New Haven University
Regina Rendaza, Distance
Julian Pierre, University of Tennessee
Ramon Mc Intosh, Inter-American University
Kevin Robinson, Sprinter


IAAF Athletics' World Plan



March 4-5, 2004
World Indoor Championships Budapest
QualifyStandards Click Here

March 20-21, 2004
RESULTS

The Virgin Islands National Cross-Country Team after the Women’s Long Race in Brussels, Belgium: (left to right front row) Billy Bohlke, Ragina Rendazza, Eline Van Landschoot, Attache.  Standing (left to right) Rachel Witty,

Ruth Ann David, Lisha Hamilton.

CARIFTA  Bermuda

April 9, 10, 11
RESULTS

14 year-old Juan Robles won the Bronze Medal in CARAFTA in
Bermuda in the 3000 meters...here he wins the Virgin Islands Pace Runners Flight 64 Four Mile Road Race in March...


 Olympic Scholarships for Athletes "Athens 2004"
Click here for details


How to become a member of the Virgin Islands National Team

To become a member of a Virgin Islands National Track and Field Team is an honor and a privilege  which lives forever.  The steps required include: Register annually with the Federation.  All athletes and coaches must register to become eligible for selection to a team provided the requirements for residency are met.  Once this is achieved, the standards for qualification must be met.  With exception of  local and most regional competition, qualifying standards are set by the international governing bodies including: the International Amateur Athletic Federation and the International Olympic Committee.  These standards will be listed on this web site as they are established.

Athens Olympic Games
Qualifying Standards Click Here

Click here for 2002:
North America, Central America and Caribbean Rankings...

For annual Federation Registration
Form click here


2004 List of Prohibited Drugs--click here

Click here to view 2003 Web Page...


 

The International Amateur Athletic Federation

 click for site front page

The North America, Central America & Caribbean Athletic Confederation

 The Central America & Caribbean Athletic Confederation

The Leeward Islands Athletic Association

The International Olympic Committee

The Virgin Islands Olympic Committee

The Virgin Islands Track and Field Federation

408 Strand St., Frederiksted,

St.Croix, Virgin Island 00840

340-772-0412 President: Ronald Russell

340-772-0212 Fax.Pres.

isv@mf.iaaf.org

 340-777-0258 Secretary: Wallace Williams

340-773-5327 Fax.Sec.

wallacewilliams@msn.com

 

2004 Competition Schedule

Local/Regional

January  24 Martin Luther King Relays St.Thomas

January 31 St.Thomas 15 and Under

January 31 Coaches Track and Field Meet 15 & Under
St. Croix

February 14 2nd Annual Agri-Fair Track & Field Competition--St. Croix  St.Croix

February 21 Mario Thomas Invitational--St.Thomas

February 21 St. Croix

March 13 Jr. Barracuda Track & Field
Competition--St.Croix

April 9-11 CARIFTA Championships
Bermuda (BER)

April 17 Masters & Open Track & Field Meet
St. Thomas

April 24 Conseil General--GPII Martinique

April 24-25 Leeward Islands Youth Championships
St
. Kitts BWI

May 1 Memorial Cristobal de Leon--APM
Santo Domingo (DOM)

May 8 Gran Prix Mexico (Banamex) APM
Mexico, City (MEX)

May 15-16 Leeward Islands Junior Championships
St. Johns, Antigua

May 29 Cipriani Phillip Sprint Classic
Virgin Islands National Championships--St. Croix

May 29-30 Whitsuntide Games
St. George's (GRN)

M ay 31-June 1 Leeward Islands Junior Championships--Tortola, BVI

June 5 GPII Portland (USA)

June 5-6 Juvenil Santiago Nakasawa (MEX)

June 6 GP Palo Alo (USA)

June 11-13 Campeonato Centroamericano Juvenil San Jose, Costa Rica

June 12 Int'l Classic (Baritac) BAR

June 13 Victoria Int'l Track Classic Victoria (CAN)

June 19-20 OECS Relays--Road Town, BVI

June 25-27 CAC Junior Championships
San Salvador, ESA

July 9-11 Campeonato Centroamericano Mayores
Managua, NCA

July 30-31, Aug 1 NACAC U-23 Championships
Sherebrooke, CAN

tbd Grand Prix Guadalajara--Guadalajara, (MEX)

tbd Harry Jerome Invitational--Burnaby, B.C. (CAN)

 Leeward Islands Senior Championships--TBD

OECS Track & Field Championshps--TBD

CAC Senior Championships--TBD
 

INTERNATIONAL

Mar 5-7 IAAF World Indoor Championships
Budapest, HUN

Mar 20-21 IAAF World Cross-Country Championships
Brussels, BEL

May 1-2 World Race Walking Cup
Naumberg, GER

May 16 GPII Rio De Janeiro, (BRA)

May 23 GP Belem, (BRA)

Aug 7-8 Ibero-American Championships
Huelva, ESP

Aug 20-29 Athens Olympic Games
Athens, Greece

Distance Racing--Road Racing--Cross-Country in the Virgin Islands is organized by: The Virgin Islands Pace Runners in St.Croix and by: STAR, (The St.Thomas Association of Road Runners in St.Thomas, click here complete calander and results...