For about six years the girls from the Holmwood Technical High School track team have been providing much entertainment with their outlandish yet intricate hairstyles.

Very often, the styles carry the school's maroon and gold colours but, according to team captain Audra Segree, the various creative hairdos began when Aneisha McLaughlin was captain. As many may recall, McLaughlin and her teammates came out with a unicorn hairdo (hair pulled back in one with a long plait raised in the air with elastic bands wrapped around it).

This hairdo created quite a stir and, since then, the trend from the Holmwood team has continued.

Calming Dem Dung

This year, Segree said their hairdo is called Calming Dem Dung.

"It is cornrow on one half of the hair and chinybump on the other with safety pins fastened in the top of the chinybumps. Maroon and yellow embroidery thread is tied between the chinybumps, creating a diamond shape," said Segree.

She said that, to come up with these hairdos they call meetings, use hair books and then combine various styles to create their own.

Other schools have caught on but it's the team from the Manchester-based school that still leads the pack with the daring dos.