UNDER NORMAL circumstances, three misses in the high jump would be a disaster. At Saturday’s Velocity Fest on April 23, the result heralded the return to competition of Christoff Bryan, who, at 26, still oozes world-class potential. Now based in...
Before 2021, no Jamaican woman had ever reached the final of the discus at a major championship. Shadae Lawrence made the breakthrough last year at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, and now with the World Championships to come in July, she wants a...
Janieve Russell just wants to improve, and if that process puts her on the podium at this year’s World Athletics Championships, then she would be a happy 400 metres hurdler. Russell also wants to defend her Commonwealth Games title in August if...
It goes without saying that Jamaica will have a great team at the Carifta Games which starts today. However, there are fine athletes coming to the National Stadium from all over the region. Here are six every fan should keep an eye on during the...
ONE OF the foundations of the victory by Kingston College (KC) at last week’s ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships was the sprint hurdles. For the third Championship in a row, Kingston College won two of the three gold medals...
Surrounded at home by positive energy, Mark Anthony Miller gave Jamaica College (JC) 18 points by winning the Class Two 100 and 200 metres at the 2022 ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Championships (Champs). His father, Mark Miller, was delighted...
IT’S A fair guess that the class 1 400 metres at this week’s ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships will come down to a duel between Gregory Prince of St Jago, the Central Championships winner, and Delano Kennedy of Edwin Allen...
Rahnsomn Edwards, hurdles coach at Kingston College, has described the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships Class One 400m hurdles clash between Rayon Campbell and Roshawn Clarke of Camperdown High as a duel worth going miles...
Sport is a key part of student development. That’s the viewpoint shared by O’neil Ankle, principal of Jonathan Grant High School in Spanish Town and Orett Wallace, headmaster at Foga Road High School in May Pen. Both men are former high school and...
A decade ago, everyone in the purple of Foga Road High School cheered 800 metres standout Kevon Robinson at the top of their voices. The smooth-running Robinson used their support to win two gold medals at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’...
Champion sprint hurdler Danielle Williams and Olympic 400 metres finalist Christopher Taylor have reacted bravely to the mishaps they endured at the recent World Indoor Championships. Both Williams and Taylor have set their sights on the outdoor...
Last year, at this time, Reynaldo Walcott was tuning his St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) sprinters to sweep the 100 metres final at ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs). Since then, success with Shelly-...
NO ONE knows for sure what will happen at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships in the Class one 400-metre hurdles, not even the fastest ever in the event, Jaheel Hyde. Speaking at last Saturday’s John Wolmer Speed Fest,...
There’s a new power in the land of high school girls’ track and field and it is St Catherine High School. ‘The Conquerors’ finished the recent Central Championships in fifth with the school’s all-time top score, leaving head coach Marlon James to...
Camperdown High School has made a brilliant contribution to Jamaica’s international standing in track and field. According to head coach Okeile Stewart, work is under way to reignite the Camperdown flame, and early signs could spark at the 2022...
The Class One 400 metres hurdles at the upcoming ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Championships (Champs) will be a mouthwatering treat. So says Okeile Stewart, coach of Camperdown High School’s gold medal contender Roshawn Clarke. Stewart expects...
BRIAN LEVELL will run faster than he’s ever gone at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships and later in the season. Based on what he is seeing at the school’s Frankfield base in training, Levell’s Edwin Allen High School...
Holmwood Technical High School finished this week’s Central Championships with a thrilling win in the 4x400 metres. For head coach Dave Anderson, it was a sign that his charges are accelerating into the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics...
FOUR-TIME OLYMPIC sprint medallist Ato Boldon says his charge, Briana Williams, is ready. Williams, an Olympic relay gold medallist, is on her way to World Indoor Championships in the Serbian capital of Belgrade to run in an individual championship...
UNSUCCESSFUL AS a sprinter, Cedricka Williams changed to throwing in 2018 and now is the best young discus thrower in the land. There are big meets on the radar but Williams just wants to keep on winning. On March 12, the second day of the Carifta...
Jamaican long jumpers have stolen the show on the United States collegiate circuit in the last week. Firstly, Shakwon Coke won his third National Junior College Athletics Association (NJCAA) indoor title on March 4 and, on March 11, Wayne Pinnock...
Speed has never been a problem for DeAndre Daley. The Herbert Morrison Technical High School student athlete has, however, faced physical maladies that he and coach Claude Grant have held at bay this year, allowing him to accelerate without fear....
Jamaica College (JC) are the fastest school team of 2022 in the 4x100m, the 4x400m, the 4x800m and the sprint medley. JC entered last week’s Corporate Area Championships as the time leaders in the 4x800m and the medley and scored chart-topping...
MISTAKES WILL be costly in the girls’ under-20 discus at this week’s Carifta Trials. According to Wayne Stewart, who coaches the throws at Camperdown High School, anyone who leaves their best form at home will pay. “When you look at it,” Stewart...
AFTER POCKETING a relay silver at last year’s World Under-20 Championships, lanky Sandrey Davison is focused on speed this season. The St Catherine High School sprint star is aiming for maximum success at this year’s World Under-20 event and is one...
