The Tribune

TECHNOLOGY played a major role in the success of the sixth Commonwealth Youth Games last week and a group of local experts led by Trevor Moss had a lot to do with it.

Moss spearheaded the Tek Team that served as the meet management for the athletic competition, but more importantly, he is also responsible for the team that dealt with the whole technical operation of the sixth Commonwealth Youth Games.

“The Tek Team is split into two, but they must work as one to ensure the success of the entire programme,” Moss said. “The team also works with the operational staff of athletics in the technical information centre.

“One aspect is the timing and placing system. That team deals just with the cameras and the clocks for track races. They’re responsible for the starting and the finishing of the race and sending that information onto the meet management.”

The Tek Team, who are directly involvement in the meet management, included Moss, Everette Mackey, Sandra Butler, Anthony Butler, Carlisa Miller, Betty Christie and Christine Cunningham.

For the CYG, Moss had to employ a lot more people because of the scope of work entitled. Among those added to the Tek Team were Randy Cunningham, Latina Rolle, Thomas Ryan, Ashli Munnings, Scheme McKenzie, Antorio Riley and Antonique Butler.

Not only were they responsible for the setup of the laptop computers used, they also focused on the phone services and internet connection.

“We deploy all the computers, the printers, the scanners, the copiers and we serviced every division of the CYG,” he said. “We had to do that for every venue that the games took place and all of the hotels used as the designated games villages.

“That was Atlantis, Warwick, SuperClubs Breezes, Melia and Baha Mar. We also had to service the cycling venue at the Clifton Heritage site to make sure that they had all of the proper services to function. It was a tedious task, but we got it done.”

Moss said they were also responsible for ensuring that all of the sporting venues at the National Tennis Centre, the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium, the Betty Kelly Kenning Swim Complex and the two Thomas A. Robinson stadiums were fully serviced.

“Technology itself had about 20 persons and the Atois team, who provided support for the CYG, including accreditation, had about 10 persons,” he said.

“We had some challenges, but every challenge was met and dealt with. The games got smoother as we went along. As each discipline came on, we were able to do our fine tuning.”

It took about two weeks to set up the entire system around the venues and hotels and about three days to get the operation up and running at the national stadium.

The team that Moss is in charge of has been together since 2013. They have worked at all three editions of the IAAF World Relays and their Tek Team also assisted the Cayman Islands when they hosted the Carifta Games.

“We are very careful how we respond to requests from our fellow counterparts in the Caribbean because if there is a group already there that uses the same system that we use, we don’t want to side step them,” he said.

“But for the most part, we are only responsible for the operation that takes place here in the Bahamas. We have had a lot to do over the past few years and I think we will be able to handle anything that comes up in the future.”