Julian Robinson - file

Calabar coach Julian Robinson, the man at the helm of the school's remarkable achievements in high-school throwing events over the last few seasons, says his athletes main source of motivation is to aspire towards international standards.

The Red Hills Road institution continued their dominance over their rivals last Saturday at the King of the Ring Thowers R Us meet at St Hugh's High School. For the second time this season, there was a national junior record by an athlete from that institution.

National junior representative Ashinia Miller erased his former teammate Chad Wright's record as he heaved the shot put for a personal-best 19.19 metres.

Wright's previous national best of 18.87 metres was done at the national junior trials last year.

A week earlier at the Youngster Goldsmith meet, at the UWI Usain Bolt stadium, Wright lost another national junior record to Traves Smikle, the first Jamaican to get a medal at an international event in throwing. Smikle got bronze in the discus at the 2009 World Youth Championships in Italy, and erased Wright's previous national record of 63.11 metres, winning the event with a throw of 63.96 metres.

"At Calabar, we do not concentrate on winning at Boys and Girls' Championships, we try to prepare them to attain an international standard. We try to aim for the standard set by those athletes in Europe and like any athlete on the track, we train them just as hard," said Robinson.

in fantastic form

Top thrower Chad Wright - file

Last Saturday, the Julian Robinson-coached throwers were in fantastic form once again, taking the first three spots in the 16-18 shot-put event. Coming behind Miller in the event were Fredrick Dacres (17.31) and Smikle (17.23) metres. Smikle was also in record-breaking mood at the meet, as he returned to remove Wright's one-year-old mark in the discus, with a new record of 61.40 metres. It was another one-two-three finish for Calabar in the event as Dacres (50.64) and Miller (48.23) metres, occupied the next two spots.

In the 14-15 shot put, they took a quinella as Chris Brown had a record throw of 16.72 metres to win the event ahead of teammate Stephen McDonald with 14.02 metres.

"Unlike previous years when our guys train from September to March, we have done something different as we train for the entire year and this has helped to contribute to the vast improvement of the boys," said

Robinson, who was the head coach of Jamaica's team to the World Junior Championships in Moncton, Canada, last year.

"Unlike some coaches who think someone has to be big and fat to throw well, that is not the case at Calabar. The event requires a lot of speed and this is what we look out for, as it is very very important in this event," he added.

Robinson also credited head coach Michael Clarke for his success at the institution so far.