Immaculate Conception High School and Campion College retained their Mayberry Investment Swim Meet high school boys and girls’ titles, respectively, yesterday, after competition at the National Aquatics Centre. Immaculate, which captured their 20th...
Tina Clayton smashed the Class Three Girls 100m record in one of the most impressive performances at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls Athletics Championships. However, with her twin sister Tia being among those who saw her heel from start to...
Head coach at Herbert Morrison Technical Claude Grant, who decided to pull his top Class Three sprinter, Deandre Daley, from the meet, believes that insufficient warm up times have caused injuries at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics...
Excelsior High School’s Shantae Foreman delivered the first of the two gold medals she promised her school when she took gold in the Class Two girls long jump final as Edwin Allen suffered more mishaps on the third day of the 2019 ISSA/GraceKennedy...
Sports management expert Carole Beckford says Jamaican athletes should follow in the footsteps of Chris Gayle and take every step to maintain their reputations in order to continue to operate in the global business of sports.Beckford's comments came...
Yohan Blake says that he is eager to face the starter for the 100 metres dash at the third staging of the Racers Grand Prix next week Saturday as the line-up is promising one of the fastest 100m races of the season."Based on the line-up, the race...
President of the Kingston and St Andrew Football Association (KSAFA), Wayne Shaw, said although he would welcome a franchise system in Jamaica, he believes KSAFA's approach to football administration is a successful model, which should be replicated...
Quarter-milers Demish Gaye and Rusheen McDonald continued their build-up to next month's Commonwealth Games with decent performances at the G.C. Foster Classics/Digicel Grand Prix Finale on Saturday at the National Stadium.Gaye, who stamped his...
"This team seems to be rising to the occasion step by step and you never know and they could spring some element of surprise because each track meet, you see some different signs," Harrison said.Kingston College tallied 377 points. However, the boys...
Vice-president of the Inter Secondary Sports Association (ISSA), Keith Wellington, said that there will be no knee-jerk reaction from ISSA in relation to the arrest and charge of a high-school track and field coach for the abduction and rape of a...
After many local players missed the Rugby Americas North Sevens competition in Mexico last November because they were unable to fund their plane fares, Jamaica Rugby Union president, Jerry Benzwick, is calling on Corporate Jamaica to come on board...
Apart from a disappointing fifth-place finish at the World Athletics Championships in London, Elaine Thompson had an outstanding 2017 track and field season, and barring injuries, she looks set to maintain her status as the fastest woman in the...
President of the Jamaica Rugby Union, Jerry Benzwick, is looking to popularise all formats of his sport, including women's rugby, now that he is riding the crest of a wave after qualifying for the World Cup Sevens tournament slated for July this...
Vere Technical High School may be synonymous with the name Veronica Campbell-Brown, but it is Troy Primary School, from her native Trelawny, that will bear the name of the eight-time Olympic medallist, Minister of Sports Olivia Grange said on...
Following the departure of Lennox Graham from Johnson C Smith University (JCSU) to Clemson University, Leford Green, the former national 400 metres hurdles champion, is looking to continue Graham's legacy as the interim coach of his alma mater.Green...
Veteran high-school track and field coach Michael Clarke believes that coaches who dedicate their time to harness the talents of young Jamaicans ought to be compensated if they are expected to continue to develop world-class athletes.Clarke, who is...
