Cave Hill finishes third at Inter-Campus Games

The UWI Cave Hill Campus clinched three of the 14 titles on offer on their way to a third-place finish at the recently completed UWI Inter-Campus Games, held at the St Augustine Campus in Trinidad.

Describing the overall performance as a bit below expectations in an interview with Barbados TODAY, team manager Aundrea Wharton confirmed Cave Hill won the female hockey, volleyball and netball titles.

The Women’s Hockey team also secured top spot. (Photo Credit: AW)

“We probably fell short from our initial estimations by two titles. We were really looking to take the cricket title and the male volleyball title as well and upgrading those spots from second position to first would have probably pushed us up in the overall medal rank,” Wharton said.

He, however, conceded it was a fair showing by the team, given the unique nature of this year’s Games.

“Noting from when we left that it would have been a squad that was completely new to the entire notion of university games, what it meant and what it represents, it was a big learning curve for those athletes.” 

“What I would say is that looking forward to 2028, potentially when the games are to be held at the Cave Hill Campus, at least 60 per cent of those 130 athletes are going to be available yet again for Cave HIll,” Wharton said.

“I could see a different outcome then, because they now have a real appreciation of what these Games mean, how fiercely they’re contested, and given that they’ll be on home soil, they’d want to put on a better showing.”

Jamaica’s Mona Campus secured the overall honours while St Augustine was second.

Wharton described the level of competition this year as inconsistent.

“This year it almost felt a smidge lukewarm to everyone, given the restart out of what would have been the COVID pandemic. A lot of the teams were not fully aware of what the Games meant and how keenly contested it is. Even looking at Five Islands Campus which was only launched like two years or so ago, they were competing for the very first time,” he concluded.

(KH)