When Jevaughn Powell settles into his blocks for the 400 metres final at the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) Division 1 Championships in Eugene, Oregon, today, the words of his University of Texas El Paso coach Davian Clarke will...
There’s a new name in the upper reaches of the all-time Jamaica 800 metres performance list but it’s a familiar one. Chrisann Gordon-Powell, the 2017 NCAA 400m champion, has made the move to the two-lap event. Injuries and a belief there is a place...
When Kevona Davis takes to the track in Eugene, Oregon, on Thursday at the NCAA Division 1 Championships, she will be riding a wave. Now 20 and a second-year student-athlete at the University of Texas, Davis will enter as a potential finalist in...
From Herb McKenley to Kirani James, the history of the 400 metres at the NCAA Championship is filled with Caribbean glory. University of Texas coach Edrick Floreal has prepared Barbadian wonder boy Jonathan Jones to join a long line of triumphant...
Ackeem Blake is the third-fastest Jamaican in the men’s 100 metres this season, and his coaches at the Titans Track Club reckon he will give a good account of himself at the National Senior Championships later this month. One of them is 2005 World...
Jevaughn Powell is the first Jamaican to better 45 seconds in the 400 metres this season. Powell, the 2017 ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Championships Class Two winner, clocked a personal best 44.87 seconds on May 27 in Fayetteville, Arkansas....
EVEN THOUGH she has been impressive so far this season for the University of Texas, former St Catherine High School sprinter Julien Alfred is a work in progress. According to Texas head coach Edrick Floreal, Alfred is moving into a positive place...
For the fifth season in a row, national hammer throw champion Erica Belvit has raised her personal best. With that new standard of 67.66 metres, Belvit says she is just going to keep building to her goal of giving Jamaica a presence at the world...
The recent surge from young Jamaican sprinter Kevona Davis hasn’t come from changes in her training. Instead, according to Edrick Floreal, Davis’ coach at the University of Texas, the advance is the result of a mental breakthrough. Davis, a 20 year...
Like her Caribbean teammates at the University of Texas, Olympian Stacey Ann Williams is being prepared for the World Championships but her next big 400 metres test is likely to pit her against fellow Jamaican Charokee Young at the NCAA...
In the 65 years since the respected United States (US) journal Track And Field News began to publish its annual world rankings, no Jamaican has ever been numbered in the top ten in the women’s high jump. That’s about to change, thanks to Lamara...
TWO-TIME OLYMPIAN Neville Myton died a year ago on May 19 and in a virtual act of respect, today’s exponents in Myton’s beloved 800 metres have accelerated in the weeks leading up to the anniversary. Three Jamaicans – Navasky Anderson, Rajay...
With three straight wins at ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Championships (Champs), Hydel High are the current queens of the 4x400 metres. The future is bright since each member of Corey Bennett’s 2022 Penn Relay record wreckers is eligible to...
Ever since 400 metres hurdler Andrenette Knight joined a training group including World Champion Dalilah Muhammad, she says she has been able to push herself harder. The extra push has made the 25-year-old a contender for a place on Jamaica’s team...
If Lamara Distin continues to fly in the high jump, no one will be happier than Hydel High School head coach Corey Bennett. Speaking just before the new national record holder steps onto the high jump apron at this weekend’s SouthEastern Conference...
DISCUS THROWER Traves Smikle owns a World Under-18 bronze from 2009 and silver medals from the 2018 Commonwealth Games and the 2019 Pan-American Games. That might be enough for some people but Smikle is aiming for more. To do well on the days that...
“I WANT to be an Olympian. I want to know what it feels like to be competing for Jamaica as an Olympian.” Those are the sentiments of Jamaican hammer thrower Nayoka Clunis, who is pursuing this worthy objective with time management as her most...
When Roje Stona sailed his discus 65.11 metres at the recent Penn Relays, the Clemson University senior had played his part in the achievement of a national milestone. Thanks to Stona, Jamaica has for the first time, four men who have thrown the...
Hurdler Orlando Bennett made a mighty effort to make the 2021 Jamaican Olympic team...and missed. Bennett sped to within 0.01 of his lifetime best in the 110 metres hurdlers, but a fifth-place finish at the National Championships left him stranded...
When Jamaica’s Romaine Beckford emerged the victor at the 126th staging of the Penn Relays in the high jump, his personal best clearance of 2.23 metres amplified a new Jamaica wave in the event. A week earlier, Christoff Bryan started the wave at...
“Athletes like to be part of a rich culture and Camperdown had a rich culture, as the Sprint Factory. We have lost that in recent years and we’re trying to see if we can get back to that light. We now have a cadre of sprinters. I believe, as a team...
Talent scouts at this week’s Penn Relays in Philadelphia may well cast an eye on Gregory Prince, the winner of the Class One 400 metres at the recent ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Championships (Champs). Prince, a strapping lad from St Jago...
Had THE COVID-19 threat receded last year, Javeir Brown would surely have been one of the stars of the moribund 2021 renewal of the Penn Relays. With the 2022 staging of the world-renowned carnival set to start this Thursday in Philadelphia, Brown...
THE FIRST big moment of the recent Carifta Games in Kingston came early on April 16. Unseen by most, Keyshawn Strachan put The Bahamas on the medal table with gold in the under-20 boys’ javelin. Strachan will be in action at the world-renowned...
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 400-metre hurdles bronze medallist, Rushell Clayton, says her event is going to be one of the most competitive at this year’s National Championships. She expects to contend for a spot on Jamaica’s team to Eugene, Oregon, host...
