Two of the island's most promising female athletes, Rosemarie White, a former national 400m champion, and Schillonie Calvert, have joined the Glen Mills-coached Racer's Track Club.

Both athletes have represented Jamaica at various levels. White, after winning the 400m at the National Championships in 2008, went on to finish seventh in the final at the Beijing Olympics. She was also a member of Jamaica's team at this summer's World Championships in Berlin.

personal best

White has a personal best of 50.05 and joined Sonita Sutherland and Moya Thompson as the known quarter-milers at the club. Calvert, the 2005 World Youth 100m bronze medallist, has a personal best of 11.19. She won the 2006 Central America and Caribbean Junior sprint double in Trinidad & Tobago.

Both White and Calvert, who joined the group last month, along with Sutherland, who is in her second season, were pre-viously coached by Maurice Wilson at G.C. Foster College.

Former Calabar and Jamaica junior sprint hurdler, Warren Weir, also joined the group currently training at the University of West Indies, Mona campus.

Mills confirmed the new members at the club while disclosing on local radio Friday night that his aim is to improve female sprinters and hurdling at the club.

"We launched earlier this year and we set ourselves some targets we are going after," he said. "We want to build our hurdles programme and we want to develop the female aspect of the club."