Listen up ? the names Latroya Darrell and Kijaun Wilkinson are likely ?to jump? out at fellow Bermudians in future headlines.

Their prowess in the high jump coupled with Latroya?s success in the triple jump earned the Island three silver medals at last week?s Carifta Games in Tobago. Bermuda?s only other medal was gold in the Under-17 Girls, compliments of overseas-based Arantxa King.

Latroya?s double silver was extra impressive given that it was her first campaign at Under-20 level and that she established a new personal best in the sandpit with a leap of 12.29 metres.

Her 1.74 metres in the high jump was just shy of her personal record 1.76 but it mattered not to her amid a tough tussle for the podium.

?I feel great about my results because I trained hard. I did not think I was going to do well at all though I thought I had a chance in the high jump.

?But when I got there (high jump competition) I was in last place for quite a while and then I started pulling it together and moving up.

?I was surprised that the triple jump was pretty easy. I thought it would be more competition,? said the CedarBridge Academy student, recalling her experience at the Dwight Yorke Stadium in Bacolet.

By contrast, Wilkinson ? who trains with Latroya and is her nextdoor neighbour ? was quite confident about the high jump, having got the nerves out of his system in his Carifta debut here last year.

?I wasn?t nervous like at last year?s Carifta Games. I was really confident that I could place well and I?m pleased with my performance,? said the 15-year-old who cleared 1.85 metres for the runner-up spot in the Under-17 Boys? division.

?The rounds went very smoothly and I cleared all my heights on the first attempt except one (1.8 metres) and I set a new personal best.?

The Saltus Grammar student, who seriously began competing last year, attributed his showing to improved technique, adding that his goal is now to reach the 1.98 metres required to qualify for the Junior Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Championships and the World Youth Championships.

?This year I?ve focused more on driving up as I go over the bar,? said the six-footer whose long-term ambitions are to represent Bermuda at the Olympics and to have a career in business.

Kijaun, who also achieved a personal best in the long jump despite not medalling in that event, hopes to go further in that pursuit also but stressed it?s secondary to his battle with the horizontal bar.

Already a seasoned competitor at 17 and boasting six Carifta medals in total, Latroya credited her mental strength with getting her through the tension and pressure of competition.

?When things get rough I tell myself to keep going and that I have to work harder. I always try to put my all into everything,? said the junior athlete who also dances, sings and models.

Surprisingly, she is not keen on triple jump because it?s a ?very hard event which takes a lot out of you?. However, it?s the challenge which keeps this jumper intrigued.

In the future, she aspires to break Zindzi Swan?s national record of 1.79 metres in the high jump and to compete professionally and at the Olympics.