Belize Athletic Association to Host Track and Field Day  

The Belize Athletic Association is inviting Belizeans to participate in a celebration of track and field this weekend, on the fourth and fifth of May. The event will be held at the Marion Jones Sporting Complex and starts at seven a.m. on Saturday and Sunday and goes on until three thirty p.m. and twelve thirty p.m., respectively. President of the Belize Athletic Association, Cojac Smith promised two days filled with food, and family fun.

 

Cojac Smith, President, Belize Athletic Association

“We have our truck meet coming up this weekend. We’re actually doing a three part track meet. So we’re doing the U-18 and U-20.  It’s basically selection for that coming upcoming tournament, which will be on the seventeenth to the twenty-eighth of May. So we’re trying to select athletes for that, as well as we’ll have the seniors at that same meet as well. So we’re just putting everything in together as much as possible so that we could kind of curtail on some of the spending because we really don’t have any funds at this point in time, so we’re still accepting sponsorships. So we’re just trying to hit the different media rounds to try and get athletes coming out. We want this to be a national, it’s a national meet, so we want it to be national, whereby athletes from all over the country are able to come and represent themselves, do their best stuff, showing that the districts have talent as well, and just coming out and supporting the event and registering. We do have a Google form on the page, you could go on the Belize Athletic Association Facebook page and sign up right there, pay online, or you could come and pay at the day of the event. We’re also trying to incorporate a corporate side of it, where we’re trying to ask corporate or businesses to come out and have a bit, we’re having a corporate relay, so you come out with your best five runners, And you do it’s a 5K one lap around the large truck each And we’re you’re going for bargain rights and you have medals and trophies As well, and we have an open 5k for male on Sunday and an open 3K for female on Sunday as well So it’s a two day event. We’re trying to make it as holistic and family feel as possible. So we do have food with Iguana Sap has agreed to be selling food out there as well And we have a small bar. We have tents so you don’t have to worry about the sun You can come out and enjoy it. Enjoy the time and watch events and really have fun. Bring out the kids. I mean, Track and Field is something that we’ve not had that support from. So we’re trying to ask the public to try and put the support behind Track and Field.”