WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 400 metres gold medallist Bert Cameron and coach Raymond 'KC' Graham will be among five coaches to be honoured at next week's Penn Relays.
Cameron wo won the gold medal in the one-lap event at the first World Championships in Helsinki, Finland is the head coach at Wolmer's Boys while Graham is at St. Jago, the school he guided to four Girls Championships titles during the 1990s.
A release on the Penn Relays website stated that Cameron achieved marked success while at St. Jago from 1996 through 2003. As coach at St. Jago, the boys won Penn Relays championships in the 4x100-metre relay in 1996, and in the 4x400 in 1998. The 4x400 team ran 3:10.27, the second-fastest high school time ever run at the Carnival."
As for Graham, a national coach, the website reported that "long a standard bearer for girls' track in Jamaica, Raymond has coached at St. Jago for the last 11 years, and before that was the Camperdown coach for eight years.
"St. Jago have won four Penn Relays championships in the 4x100 and 4x400. In the late 1990s, St. Jago won the Jamaican Girls Championships four years in a row, from 1996 through 1999. Prior to his successes at St. Jago, Graham helped steer a strong programme at Camperdown, which won three girls 4x100m championships at Penn, including a Penn Relays Wall of Fame relay team."
