By Paul A. Reid & Charmaine Austin, Staff Reporters 
CAC Junior Championships gold medallists Kashain Page (left) and Jermaine Gonzales share a joke on the team's arrival from Barbados at the Norman Manley Airport last night. Page won the under-17 girls 400 and 300 metres hurdles while Gonzales ran a personal best 45.80 for gold in the under-20 boys 400 metres final. - Michael Sloley /Freelance Photographer
HEAD coach to the just concluded 15th Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Barbados, Edward Hector is warning that fans should not get carried away with the outstanding performances, leading into next week's IAAF/ Coca-Cola World Junior Championships in Kingston.
While describing the performances at the CAC Games as "awesome", Hector said that the World Junior Championships will be several notches up and "will be a whole new ball game."
Arriving in Montego Bay yesterday Hector said: "We can't allow ourselves to think that we have arrived after dominating CAC as the bar will be raised a few notches from that level."
Jamaica dominated the meet winning 59 medals - 27 gold, 13 silver and 19 bronze and set a number of records as they made final preparations for the six day World Junior Championships that gets underway in Kingston on Tuesday.
What the CAC performances showed, Hector said, was that the Jamaican Juniors were "psychologically and physically edging their way towards being competitive and winning medals at the World Juniors."
The results in Barbados, Hector said, augur well as a number of athletes achieved personal bests and showd they are ready to step up a notch or two.
He was full of praise for 15 year-old Usain Bolt's magnificent 20.61 seconds in the boys Under 17 200m, breaking his own record set earlier in the heats when he ran 21.34.
Hector who is also the boys coach at Holmwood Technical was also full of praise for the Under 20 girls 4x100m team that ran 44.30 for the gold medal, despite the team not being 100 percent fit. This time was just outside of the record 44.26 seconds set by another Jamaica team in 2000.
Despite all this, he said, the coaching staff will sit down to reassess the team and look at strategies on how to deploy the athletes, looking at their work loads. He said that they might cut back on some athletes who are down to run in two relays as they try to maximise their chances of winning medals.
After spending a few days with their families it will be back to camp on Wednesday afternoon and training will restart on Thursday morning Hector told reporters.
During the camps, he said, major emphasis would be on the relays especially the 4x100m for both boys and girls, he added.
Meanwhile hurdles coach Lennox Graham added that "they (the athletes) looked really good and we are all very proud of their efforts. We have an easy week of training planned so they will have enough time to recover before the start of the World Junior Championships.
"We didn't allow any one person to run too many events at the CAC Championships and that decision helped us realise two key objectives. It helped get everyone sharper and we came back without any injuries," he said.
The team's main focus for the IAAF Coca Cola World Junior Championships, he said, will not be on winning but getting good individual and team performances.
Graham who arrived in Kingston said: "We'll be facing the US and other big teams out there but our aim is not to win. Yes, we'll work hard and hopefully achieve that but more importantly for us is to get good performances from the teams and from individuals.
"We're not even beginning to see medals just yet. Right now we're working to get everyone prepared for the big meet."
