BVI Twilight Invitational 2013

MAY 1—The U.S. and British Virgin Islands’ top female sprinters Laverne Jones-Ferrette and Tahesia Harrigan-Scott are good friends, mothers of a daughter and a son and also 100m rivals.

MAY 28—Athens 2004 Olympic Games champion Jeremy Wariner of the USA, will highlight the 400m in Saturday’s inaugural British Virgin Islands Twilight Invitational at the A. O. Shirley Recreation Grounds on Tortola.

JUNE 2—St. Kitts and Nevis’ sprint veteran Kim Collins returned to the British Virgin Islands to compete for the first time in 19 years and highlighted the listing of six All Comers Records falling in the inaugural BVI Twilight Invitational, before a capacity crowd at the A. O. Shirley Recreation Grounds.  

JUNE 3—Like the BVI Twilight Invitational on which it was the under card, there was exciting action in the Leeward Jr. Invitational segment, which saw nine meet records fall and the establishing of another, in the gathering of U20 athletes with the British Virgin Islands hosting athletes from neighboring U.S. Virgin Islands, Anguilla, St. Kitts, Nevis, Dominica, Guadeloupe and Martinique.