Jessica Stephenson eyeing 2012 London Olympics

Vanessa Chin Churaman · #18 01/04/2010 07:51PM

Another upcoming artist with Guyanese roots................Go Girl

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Fiona

http://www.melaniefiona.com/

Vanessa Chin Churaman · #17 09/09/2009 12:05PM

http://caribbeanworldnews.com/middle_top_news_detail.php?mid=2512

Mark Bannister · #16 05/19/2009 02:27AM

She is Miss Belize 2008 but of Guyanese Parents.. Charmaine Chinapen. Click link below for more pictures

http://www.pageantsbelize.com/Photo_Gallery_2.html

17   Described where you were raised and what your childhood was like.

I was born to Guyanese parents in Curacao. Due to my father’s profession as a banker, we moved around
quite often when I was a child. After Curacao, my family moved to Grenada, where my brother Kevin was
born. Next, we moved to St. Lucia.   At age nine we moved to Belize which became my home.
I have been privileged enough to see many different cultures of the world while growing up.   I’ve learned
from a tender age not to be quick to be judgmental of others, but to be compassionate and open-minded
since people are often shaped by their circumstances and environment. I honestly believe this is the
greatest lesson I have learnt as a child.   I love Belize for this is where I spent my formative years and where I
have explored our beautiful Maya ruins, cayes, caves and our famed barrier reef.
I started school at Belize Elementary and then to St. Catherine Academy. It was in Belize where I fell in love
with performing arts. Overall, I look at Belize as the angel that has kept her wings around me, nurturing and
teaching me as I venture on this path of life.

GT Lime · #15 08/22/2008 03:58PM

Jessica Stephenson eyeing 2012 London Olympics

After capturing Guyanaâ€™s first ever gold medal at the Junior Carifta Swimming Champio-nships this year Jessica Stephenson has her sights set on competing at the 2012 London Summer Olympic Games.

Jessica Stephenson

Stephenson, who resides in Trinidad and Tobago, returned to Guyana last weekend for the Goodwill Championships. Since the Goodwill meet is a developmental one, Stephenson, now 13, was not allowed to participate since she medalled at Carifta this year.
â€œAlthough I knew that I wouldnâ€™t be able to participate, I just wanted to come home and give my team support and encouragement as well as help out in any way that I can,â€쳌 she told Stabroek Sport during the meet last week-end.
Stephenson recounted how exciting and motivating it was for her to have captured multiple medals in the 2007 Goodwill Championships.
According to Stephenson, she captured bronze medals in the 400m freestyle, 50m freestyle, 200m individual medley and silver in the 100m breaststroke.
Before returning home for Goodwill, Stephenson participated at the Pine Crest Swim Camp in Florida.
Devina Stephenson, Jessicaâ€™s mother, said that she enrolled her daughter in the camp which was held from July 30 - August 30 because it has a reputation for attracting some of the top junior swimmers in the U.S.
Jessicaâ€™s mother also explained that her daughter emerged as one of the front runners of the camp as her personal records are exceptional even by U.S. standards.
â€œJessicaâ€™s time in the 200m breaststroke (2:55.59s) is currently an AAAA time, (the highest U.S junior swimming motivational standard) and her time in the 100 breaststroke is an AAA (slightly lower) but is just .001s of the AAAA standard.
London bound
Stephenson is a member of Marlins Swim Club in Trinidad and Tobago where she is coached by Franz Huggins.
According to her mother, â€œJessi is one of the best swimmers there and her coach says that she is on track for the next Olympics.â€쳌
Jessica said that she communicates with Niall Roberts, who represented Guyana in the 50m freestyle in Beijing and thinks that it is a tremendous accomplishment.
By the next Olympics, Jessica will be Niallâ€™s age, but instead of hoping for a wildcard spot, she said that she wants to achieve the qualifying standard.
In order to accomplish that feat, she has to chop off just over 30 seconds of her current personal record, a task which Jessica, her parents and her coach feel is very possible.
â€œAt this rate Jessi is reducing her time by ten seconds each year and we estimate that she should get the Olympic qualifying time right on schedule,â€쳌 Devina Stephenson said.
Jessicaâ€™s mom also said that she is balancing her daughterâ€™s workload to ensure that she does not overexert herself while lending her support and also ensuring that she keeps focused on her Olympic dream.

Mark Bannister · #14 03/15/2008 12:33AM

And this "lil one" is destined for greatness….a future “phenom”...lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqXYwNDrU8k&eurl=http://widget.slide.com/widgets/yoYtWraps.swf

Rayshon Anderson · #13 02/06/2008 12:53AM

Limers,

This is the one to watch. Celine, Jennifer, Whitney, Christina,Maria....none of the aforemrntioned has anything on this little lady.

Check her out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZccz5cy3ks

GT Lime · #12 12/05/2007 03:53AM

You have to visit Florence Kersting's site, what an amazing artist!!

Here are a few new additions not yet added to the site. Stop by for some great Christmas Ideas

http://floartguyana.com/main.htm

Dancer.jpg picture by lamb1_2006

Karen Gray · #11 11/22/2007 02:19AM

THE SECRETARY HAS APPROVED THE REPORT OF THE SELECTION BOARD
CONVENED ON 05 SEP 2007 WHICH RECOMMENDED THE FOLLOWING COAST GUARD
RESERVE OFFICERS SERVING ON ACTIVE DUTY AS RESERVE PROGRAM
ADMINISTRATORS FOR PROMOTION TO THE NEXT HIGHER GRADE.

LCDR AUSTIN, CLAIRMONT A. CG ISC MIAMI - This is Guyanese guy who has been promoted to Commander in the Coast Guard, this is the highest ranking black officer in the Coast Guard which is a difficult part of the service to get in.

Isabella Micheals · #10 07/23/2007 11:53PM

Guyana: Scholar wins Harvard top prize

BY

Guyanese student, Toussant Boyce has won Harvard Law School's prestigious Program on International Financial Systems Prize while earning himself an LLM honours degree.

Boyce was among 6,000 students who graduated from Harvard University's Colleges and Graduate Schools. The former University of Guyana law school and President's College graduate, who now holds a Master of Law degree received the coveted prize for his thesis on the role of competitive complacency in the decline of America's public equity capital markets from a field of over 700 law school graduates.

The prize was established by the Program on International Financial Systems at Harvard Law School and awarded to the best paper written in that year in the Seminar on International Finance. Boyce is now planning to pursue a career as a Wall Street banking and finance lawyer, and has already accepted an offer from the UK's 'magic circle' firmFreshfields Bruckhaus Deringer to join their New York office after he completes his studies later this year.

Asked the secret to his successes, he said, "I tend to take studying in small doses. My story is simply. I mix study and work depending on how much of a challenge I need and the opportunities available. I work really hard and then the success simply follows. I am not a 'high-flyer', nor am I a 'brain-box'. I am simply an average-intellect hard worker always prepared to sacrifice."

http://www.voice-online.co.uk/content.php?show=11535

Wayne Forde · #9 05/31/2007 12:05AM

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Mark Bannister · #7 05/06/2007 05:15AM

Matthew Centrowitz, my nephew ( Beverly’s son), broke US High school mile record

at Penn Relays . Click link below to see video of the entire race.

Very proud of him .

http://www.flocasts.com/flotrack/coverage.php?c=33&id=2279

Penn Relays

Centrowitz sets high school mile mark

Broadneck star's time of 4:08.38 breaks 35-year-old

record; Roosevelt girls win two relays

By Elliott Denman

Special to The Sun

Originally published April 28, 2007

PHILADELPHIA // It took 35 years for the Penn Relays high school mile record - by Gordon

Oliver of Bethesda-Chevy Chase - to be erased and it took another Marylander to do it.

Broadneck senior Matthew Centrowitz took the Penn mile best down to 4 minutes, 8.38

seconds with a stirring 60-second final lap that separated him from a tough, talented field.

Sports Illustrated Article .

http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:STZrrCHmd4YJ:sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/more/04/27/penn.relays.ap/index.

html+sports+illustrated,+matthew+centrowitz&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

Mark Bannister · #6 05/06/2007 05:07AM

Lauren Ashby · #5 02/22/2007 03:14AM

Mark Bannister · #4 02/06/2007 01:11AM

"Big truck" is back !

Winning return for `Big Truck' Braithwaite KISSIMMEE, Florida (CMC) - Guyana's former world boxing champion Wayne 'Big Truck' Braithwaite returned to winning form by beating Mexico's Gustavo Enriquez on a seventh-round technical knockout in their non-title cruiserweight bout on Saturday night.

Inactive since September 2005, the 31-year-old 'Big Truck' Braithwaite overcame a spirited challenge from Enriquez and pounded his opponent into submission at two minutes 56 seconds of round seven at the Silver Spurs Arena.

"I am excited, I did not fight in like 16 months, so it was really good to be fighting again," Braithwaite told CMC Sport.

With the win, Braithwaite improved his record to 22 wins (18 knockouts) against two defeats, and Enriquez slipped to 15 wins (12 knockouts) against seven defeats.

The result also broke a two-fight losing streak for the former World Boxing Council (WBC) cruiserweight king.

"I feel good, I feel really good right now," Braithwaite added in the CMC interview.

Gustavo's left eye was badly cut from an accidental clash of heads in the first round but he was able to continue because and his corner got the bleeding under control.

Looking a little rusty from his near year and a half lay-off, Braithwaite took some good shots from Enriquez but was not really threatened and took control after the fourth round.

Braithwaite, now being trained by Guyanese Dillon Carew, came in at his heaviest career fight weight of 197-3/4 pounds.

He unleashed some powerful shots and had Enriquez in big trouble late in the seventh, forcing referee Jorge Alonzo to stop the bout.

Braithwaite had lost his last two fights, a unanimous decision to Frenchman Jean-Marc Mormeck in an April 2005 World Boxing Association (WBA) and WBC unification match, followed by a contentious fourth-round knockout loss to Panamanian Guillermo Jones in September 2005 in a WBA title eliminator.

In three world title fights on the card, undefeated Chad Dawson won the WBC light-heavyweight title by beating defending champion Tomasz Adamek, of Poland; Julio Diaz took the International Boxing Federation (IBF) lightweight title when defending champion Jesus Chavez on a third round TKO; and Cory Spinks successfully defended his IBF junior middleweight title by out-pointing Rodney Jones.

Mark Bannister · #3 02/06/2007 12:32AM

Laila Ali drops Guyana's O'Neil in 56 seconds in South Africa

BADAM BAM!!!! FIGHT DONE!!!!AGAIN

http://www.sportsline.com/boxing/story/9972911

http://www.wban.org/biog/banner/oneil_gwendolyne.jpg

Mark Bannister · #2 02/05/2007 04:01PM

Hello all, if you are a Colts fan, on Sunday, look for Indianapolis Colts #42 is a GT boie.

Many USA football fans may already know that Jason David, son of
Linden's own Walter David and Dawn McLean David, will be playing
in the Super Bowl this weekend!!

Jason David #42 is the starting Right Cornerback for the
Indianapolis Colts. See some great links below, for more on this
superb athlete.

Proud parents are from true blue Linden families: Walter hails from
Wismar Street, Mackenzie and was a former sprinter for Linden and a
Trade School alumnus. Mother, the former Dawn McLean, was a nurse
at the Mackenzie Hospital.

Jason is the nephew of our own Sammy David, Chairman of the NY
Chapter of the LFU; he is also the nephew of Sarah McLean, former
teacher of MHS and former Board member of the LFU.

'Die hard' Colts Fans and the rest of US who are just pr oud to have
(a 'hometown' boie in de game), will be rooting for the Colts to win
the Super Bowl!!

We in the Guyanese community are so proud of our Jason, represent Jason!

*Super Bowl XLI -- Sun., Feb. 4 at 6:25 p.m. ET on CBS*

Karen Gray · #1 02/01/2007 01:30AM

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flwdpsachia0128jan28,1,2099710.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

Reaching high

Miramar girl ascends rankings, showing talent beyond her years, as she works to be No. 1.

By Peter Holehan
Special Correspondent
Posted January 28 2007

It's 9 p.m. in France in early January, and after another long day of yellow balls zipping over nets, Paula Liverpool's internal clock is exhausted.

Sachia Vickery, Liverpool's 11-year-old daughter, has been practicing all day in preparation for Paris' Once Upon A Time tournament.

As Liverpool begins to drift off, she is wakened by Sachia, the No.2-ranked player in the Girls' 12-under Division by the United States Tennis Association. She asks her mother if it's OK to volley some balls off the walls of their hotel in France.

It's this ready-to-go mentality and her constant dedication that has made all the difference in this Miramar girl's rapid climb up the rankings.

The tournament, which featured 250 of the top 12-under players in the world, turned out to hold one more championship trophy for Sachia to add to her collection.

Called the "next Serena Williams on the way" by her technical coach, Richard Williams, who coached Serena and Venus Williams, Sachia has made believers out of all her coaches.

"The biggest change in Sachia has been her attitude," said Kevron Bennett, who has coached her for four years. "In the past, you had to fight her to get her to play. Now, she wants to be here.

"I believe in her so much because she's the whole package. She's like nothing that I have ever seen."

After dominating competition in the 12-under Division, Sachia has had to move up to the 14-under Division. In addition, she has won tournaments in the 16-under Super Series at Lake Shore Tennis Center in Miramar when she was 9 and the 18-under Team Tennis tournament in Arizona when she was 10.

"There are certain things that she's able to do that make her so much [more] mature than other players her age," said Otis Johnson, another of her coaches. "It's the questions that she will ask and the way in which she handles herself on the court."

The news of Sachia has even begun to spread to the South American country of Guyana, where Liverpool was born.

"Guyana is not known for any major sports stars really, so there is total excitement over there," said Liverpool, who credits all of Sachia's coaches for her success. "People have begun to track her results online."

Meanwhile, Sachia continues to play.

"I love this game," she said. "Once I picked up a racket, I couldn't put it down. I expect to be the best that I can be and I don't underestimate any player. I want to be the best."