Towards this end, the Amateur Athletic Association of Guyana (AAAG) launched the Nyota Peters Training Fund on Monday, seeking to raise the sum for the athlete to be at the centre by the March 1 deadline.

Peters recently stepped up her competitive participation by entering the Heptathlon event in the recent Central America & Caribbean (CAC) Games last December, carting off a bronze medal in her first effort. She had an outstanding career as a junior athlete in the long and triple jumps.

During the sojourn in Canada, Peters will be coached by IAAF coach Daniel St Hillaire who is credited as introducing her to the heptathlon while he was conducting a coaches’ course here in November, 2001.

St Hillaire’s club will be standing the medical and gym expenses of Peters while she is in Canada.

Peters was on a similar stint at the Olympic High Level Training Centre in Manaus, Brazil, last year, after which she performed creditably at the Whitsuntide Games in Grenada.

Contributions to the fund could be made at Olympic House, 94 Oronoque and Laluni Streets, Queenstown, Georgetown.