Ashantie Carr Shines at 2023 PanAm Games

A delegation of Belizean athletes is currently in Santiago Chile for the 2023 Pan American Games. Belize sent players to participate in track and field, canoe racing and sailing. Ashantie Carr represented Belize in the long jump competition. Not only did she make it in the top eight athletes to compete in the finals, she also accomplished a personal best at the games, with a five point eighty-nine meter jump. We spoke with Carr about her performance.

Ashantie Carr

Ashantie Carr, Belizean Athlete

“I preparation for this game I was doing mostly jump sessions as well as gym sessions just to strengthen my weakest part of my physic. That was the weakest part so I had to do that. And, when I got here I got here the nineteenth of November, quite early. So, it was beneficial in a sense that I got to get use to the weather here because it is like forty-one degrees. So, it is really cold here. Throughout the week, I got sick and still had to train. Unfortunately the tracks weren’t open until the twenty-sixth so I did not touch the jump pits until the twenty-sixth. The competition was straight finals but because of the amount of people that was in there the first eight get to jump six jumps. Fortunately I was part of the first eight so I got to jump six jumps. That was my first time jumping six jumps in a big game. That was an accomplishment in itself. I actually got a PB too, so it was a successful event. For me personally it is good, cause it is always good to get a personal best. But, I know there is a lot more work to be done because to be on the world stage, and not to just perform and get a personal best, but to be competitive as the others is one of my goals.”

The games are scheduled to conclude over the weekend. Carr will travel to Jamaica to continue her training.