TILAK High School in Lautoka will use its best results from its two-day athletics inter-house competition this week to gauge its strength in the coming Coca-Cola Games.
The school will complete its inter-house competition today at Lautoka’s Churchill Park.
Five-hundred and eighty-five athletes took part in the competition.
“Once our students have gone through the two days, we will look at the results for individual events and try to benchmark them with the zone results and have the final selection based on their performance,” said Jupendra Narayan, the school’s head of PEMAC said.
The Lautoka-based school won five gold, nine silver and 10 bronze medals during the Lautoka-Yasawa Zone athletics competition last year. It failed to win any medal at the 2019 Coca-Cola Games in Suva. “Within two weeks, we should finalise the squad so that we can prepare them well.
About 30-35 athletes will represent Tilak High School at the zone competition. It depends on the performance of each athlete for the track and field events.
“The Coca-Cola Games is all about qualifying standards which is a policy from the national body.”
Tilak High School had the theme for the schools inter-house competition as health and wellness, drug free and a litter-free games.
Natabua High School is the defending boys division champion while Jasper Williams High School is the reigning champions in the girls division in the Lautoka-Yasawa Zone scheduled to take place early next month at Churchill Park.
Ratu Kadavulevu School is the defending boys champion and Adi Cakobau School is the girls champion in the Coca-Cola Games.
