financial aid awards from an anonymous donor, ranging from $250 to $1,000.

All of the athletes are studying abroad, six in college and one in a prep school, and the awards will serve as a reward to them for maintaining high academic and athletic standards for the year 1992-93.

As well, all have been active participants in various extracurricular activities and community service events. Their financial needs were also taken into consideration.

The group is Tony Bean of Delaware State University, Jason Robinson of Mount Ida College in Boston, Ben Dyer of Emory University in Atlanta, Stephen Hall of Jacksonville University in Florida, Marisa Hall of Spelman College in Atlanta, Rachel Smith of Hofstra University (grad school) in Long Island, New York, and Keivon Richardson of Winder Barrow High School in Winder, Georgia.

Bean is a middle distance runner (400m, 800m) and is a former CARIFTA Games bronze medallist and Penn Relays silver medallist, both in the 4x400 metres relay. He is majoring in accounting and sports psychology.

Robinson is a sprinter and long jumper and is a silver medallist from the 1992 Penn Relays in the 4x400 metres relay. He also plays soccer for PHC.

Dyer is a pre-med and history student at Emory and was selected as one of the top track and field athletes at his university for 1992. He placed sixth in the May 24 race in 1992 and fifth this year.

Stephen Hall, a middle distance runner and decathlete, is an accounting major.

He was the national shot put champion this year and was a bronze medallist in the 400 metres at this year's Heritage Invitational.

Marisa Hall is studying economics at Spelman and is a middle distance runner.

She won a silver medal in the 1,500 metres in the 1991 Secondary Schools Track and Field Championships and was part of the gold medal-winning team in the 1991 cross-country championships.

Rachel Smith was an athletic trainer at Delaware State in football, basketball and track and field and is a former high school track and field athlete in the shot put, discus and javelin. She was also an athletic trainer/advisor for the Heritage Invitational Meet.

Richardson is a sprinter who competed in this year's CARIFTA Games. He was the national junior champion this year in the 200 metres and 400 metres and runner-up in the 100 metres. He placed second in the 200 metres at the Harvard Invitational in Boston this year.

Led by men's and women's champions Kavin Smith and Anna Eatherley, Bermuda will send a nine-member team to the CAC Cross-Country Championships in the Bahamas on February 12.

A selection committee of the BTFA met on Monday and selected the Bermuda team, which includes Tracy Wright, Vernon Tankard, Kevin Tucker and Jamal Hart in the men's division and Donna Watson, Jennifer Fisher and Julia Hawley in the women's. The men will run a 12-K course and the women 6-K.

Six other runners were also chosen to represent Bermuda in the `People's Race' to be held in conjunction with the championships. They are Jeremy Ball, Harry Patchett, Tyler Hall and Brett Forgesson in the men's division and Jane Christie and Penelope Butterfield in the women's.

FRONT-RUNNERS -- Kavin Smith, left, and Anna Eatherley are expected to lead Bermuda's CAC Cross-Country Championships challenge.