By Paul A. Reid, Senior Staff Reporter 
Sisters Camille and Carlene Robinson
WESTERN BUREAU:
TWIN SISTERS Camille and Carlene Robinson who represented Jamaica at the recent IAAF World Junior Championships (WJC) in Kingston will attend sixth form at Manchester High after doing well in the external examinations recently.
The 18 year-old twins who represented Christiana High over the last five years obtained the requisite number of passes to be enrolled at Manchester High and will start classes there when the new school year begins.
Carlene who runs the 800m and was part of the Jamaican 4x400m team that placed fourth at the WJC gained seven passes while Camille, a surprise bronze medallist in the 400m hurdles at the same meet had six passes.
Both sisters who originally hail from Chudleigh, Manchester, got almost identical grades in six subjects, English Language in both CXC and GCE, Principles of Business, Principles of Accounts, History and Social Studies.
Carlene took one additional subject, Human and Social Biology.
Despite the fact they will be competing for Manchester High in the next track season, their long time coach and mentor Jerry Holness, the head track coach at Christiana, will still put them through their paces in training.
Holness told The Gleaner he had worked out a schedule with Manchester High that will allow him to continue guiding the girls who now will turn their attention to getting themselves academically qualified for a major American University.
Holness had told The Gleaner earlier this year, prior to the World Junior Championships that scholarship offers had started coming in for the twins while adding that they had not even started thinking of which ones to take up, said that which ever college was interested had to take the pair as a package deal.
While each runner can hold their own and did not have to rely on the other to offer a 'piggy back lift' Holness said then, they were as close as sisters and twins are and "complimented each other," well.
Whichever college coach wins the lottery for the Robinson twins, will be getting more than a package deal, they will be getting proven winners and fierce competitors.
