Shoot Fuh Life awards players

Some of the young athletes of Barbados recently were awarded for their accomplishment in the ‘Shoot Fuh Life 2020’ Basketball

2-Point Shooting Competition hosted by Combined Faith and PEAK at Harrison College.

Organiser Dean Squires said the competition was held last year, but due to the subsequent national shutdowns/pauses they were not able to host the Final Rounds of the competition.

Despite this challenge, Squires said that they decided to still make the presentations based on the December 2020 Preliminary results which saw three schools, Graydon Sealy, Harrison College and Queen,s College participating.

“The Awards are based on prelims and we will start over in October 2021.”

Squires explained that the shooting contest is a component of a series of activities under the Shoot Fuh Life concept which was the preferred theme rather than Shoot for the Stars.

“Shoot fuh Life and go wherever in terms of accomplishing anything and using sports to equip them for whatever hurdles or success comes,” said Squires.

“Looking at Shoot Fuh Life to go after things to help you remain alive, avoiding gun violence, NCDs, poor health habits and push those things to help one achieve your goals and not have to deal with the extra things of dealing with health or guns and being snuffed out permanently.”

Squires said that the shooting competition was a 2-point version of the NBA 3-point competition and it first started with an inter-school and inter-form competition for the first to third formers and then branched out into the champions competing against the champions from the other schools.

He mentioned that the idea was to also have rallies where they could mix the teams and build friendships and bonds and help players get out of their comfort zone.

Some of the prizes at the awards included trophies, a sports  Bible and the Top 5 got sneakers from Peak. (CG)

List of some of the awardees

Under-13 (2008) (Ages 12)

1.) Ethan Fredericks

2.) Jules O’Garro

Under-14 (2007) (Ages 13)

1.) Benjamin Thorne

Under-15 (2006) (Ages 14)

1.) Josiah Weekes

2.) Spencer Hasslett

Resilience Award

1.) Tayte Waterman

Overall (2006 - 2008) (Ages 12-14)

1.) Benjamin Thorne Size 12/13

2.) Ethan Fredericks Size 10.5

3.) Jules O’Garro Size 11.5

4.) Dominic Garner Size 10.5

5.) Meshacq Simpson Size 10

Females

1.) Dominique Alleyne