( l - r ) Stewart, McDonald
Four stalwarts of track and field - two former national athletes, a coach and an official, will be honoured by the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) at the April 1-4 ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys' and Girls' Championships.
Sprinters Raymond Stewart and Beverly McDonald are the athletes who will be honoured, while coach Fitz Coleman and meet official Carol Cuffley will also be lauded by ISSA.
The 44-year-old Stewart competed at four Olympic Games, including his first in 1984 where he was a member of the sprint relay team which won a silver in 38.62 seconds.
An outstanding schoolboy sprinter while attending Cam-perdown High, Stewart made the 100 metres final in his first games and went on to reach three consecutive Olympic 100 metres finals.
His World Championships record is better. At his first in Rome in 1987, he won a silver medal in the 100m following the disqualification of first past the line, Jamaica-born Canadian Ben Johnson and bronze in the 4x100m. He then made the next three World Championships 100m finals in Tokyo, Stuttgart and Gothenburg.
Two-time Olympian
McDonald, a two-time Olympian, is best remembered as a member of the sprint relay team which gave Jamaica its first sprint relay gold medal at a major world meet.
In 1991 in Tokyo, the quartet of Dahlia Duhaney, Juliet Cuthbert, McDonald and Merlene Ottey clocked a then national record 41.94 to beat the USSR and Germany.
One of a long line of outstanding female sprinters out Vere Technical, the 39-year-old McDonald also won a silver medal in the 4x100m at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.
Individually, McDonald who performed for a long time in the shadow of the great Ottey, gave her best performance at the Seville World Championships in 1999 where she placed second in the 200 metres in a personal-best 22.22 seconds.
Coach Coleman is best known for his coaching exploits at Ardenne High. He is also a former coach of world 100 and 200-metres record holder Usain Bolt.
Cuffley, a former hockey international, has served the annual championships for more than 20 years as one of the chief judges for long jump.