Yohan Blake - Photo by Anthony Foster

SEVERAL OF Jamaica's top junior athletes will once again journey to New York next month for the second staging of the Island Games, dubbed 'Caribbean vs United States'.

National 100m junior record holder Yohan Blake and World Youth medallist Schillonie Calvert head a list of junior athletes selected for the Games to be held on June 10 at the Mitchel Athletic Complex in Uniondale, New York.

Senior athletes, Commonwealth Games silver medallist Kenia Sinclair and Dorian Scott, are also listed to participate at the meet, which will see a special citation made to the pioneering 1964 Kingston College team that initiated the entry of Jamaican teams to the Penn Relays.

The list of athletes invited to this year's games were selected from the recently completed Junior Trials for the Carifta Games and the Grace Kennedy/ISSA Championships.

Head of theorganising committee, Patrick Payne, said they will once again take care of air travel, accommodation and meals for the members selected.

The team is expected to depart on June 8 and return on June 11.

The Squad

Girls: Schillonie Calvert, Anastacia Le-Roy, Bobby Gaye Wilkins, Keno Haven, Deborah Rose, Tanishia Blair (Holmwood); Kayan Robinson, Tanisha Davis, Petrona Layne, Keneisha Thorosingh (Vere); Marvel Lewin, Andrea Sutherland (Edwin Allen); Latoya King, Taneisha Baker, Shanique Smikle, Sashakaye Matthias, Jonique Day, Samantha Woodburn (St Jago); Shanekia Hall (St Hugh's); Shana Gaye Tracey, Kadeen Isaacs, (Manchester); Claudia Calder (Alpha).

Boys: Yohan Blake, Nickeal Ashmeade, Ryker Hylton, Andre Walsh, Andre Wise, Adolphus Nevers (St. Jago); Warren Weir, Andre Thomas, Jason Livermore, Oshane Bailey, Rowan Gooden, Nicholas Gordon, Germaine Garfield and Ramone (Calabar); Reynaldo Rose, Lorenzo Johnson (Camperdown); Darion Bent (Manning's); Dexter Lee(Herbert Morrison); Theo O'Connor (Campion), Kirkland Smith (Claude McKay); Kenoy Campbell (Bellefield); Kerion Stewart, Andre Peart (KC), Julian Reid (Wolmer's), Ramon Birch (JC); Odayne Richards (St Georges), and Brian Omar (Munroe).

The management team: Vilma Charlton, Maurice Wilson, Raymond Graham, Howard Aris (JAAA president), Maurice Clarke, Cynthia Cooke, Clement Radcliffe and Danny Hawthorne.