A team of talented Bermudian athletes will be striving for medal success when they go head-to-head against top competition at an athletics meet in the US.

Former Bermudian track star Donna Watson will be accompanying the 28 athletes, aged between 9 and 15, to Baltimore to compete against around 50 teams in the 22nd Annual Cliff Wiley Track Classic on Saturday.

It is the fourth year the Flyers Track Team have represented the Island at the meet and Watson is predicting a healthy medal haul.

“I am expecting to come back with quite a few medals as the team are ready for competition,” she said. “We have been participating in this track meet since 2004 and it should be another competitive meet.”

“We have high hopes for the likes of Paul Smith in the 800m and 1500m, Dage Minors in 1500m, Shuntae Hendrickson in the 800m and Ashley Berry in 1500m and 3000m.

“It’s another chance for all the athletes to experience another meeting and hopefully further their development.”

This year the Bermudian Track and Field Association are making a conscious effort to take young athletes to as many international meets as possible.

They believe in order to continue their development they must be regularly testing themselves against overseas athletes.

Held at Morgan State University-Baltimore, in Maryland, the meet is governed and sanctioned under USA Track and Field rules.

The top eight place finishers in each individual event and top three finishers in each event will receive medals, while the top boys and girls team based on overall points will receive a trophy.

Athletes will have three attempts in the long jump, shot put, discus, and turbo javelins. Competitors in the high jump will receive three jumps at each height until eliminated.

Included in the track events programme is the 100m, 200, 400m, 800, 1500m, 3000m, 80m hurdles, 100m hurdles, 110m, hurdles, 200m hurdles and 400m hurdles.

The Cliff Wiley Track Classic is a member of the National Youth Meet Series.

Last month Flyers Track Club returned from a successful overseas meet claiming a total of 16 medals at the 32nd Annual Miami Northwest Track & Field Classic.

The 14 athletes, aged between 11 and 15, took on competitors from the Bahamas, British Virgin Islands, Guyana, Jamaica, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and throughout the US.

Held at the Nathaniel Traz Stadium, most events had at least three heats with the top eight overall earning medals.A team will also be returning to the east coast of the US at the end of the month for another international meeting.