The nominees for this year’s RJRGLEANER Sportswoman and Sportsman of the Year Awards are all super choices, with Budapest World Champions Shericka Jackson, Antonio Watson and Danielle Williams leading the way. Still, there are two names, Khadija...
In recent years, Swept Track Club coach Okeile Stewart has become renowned for his work with hurdlers. Two world under-20 records for Roshawn Clarke, a personal best in the 2022 World Championships final by Jaheel Hyde and a 2019 World bronze for...
LAST WEEKEND’S North American Team Table Tennis Championships, played in Washington, showed national champion, Mark Phillips, he has work to do to improve his game. Phillips, former national champions Kane Watson and Chris Marsh, and US-based...
Jamaican triple jump prodigy Jaydon Hibbert has recovered from the hamstring strain that stopped him at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Back in training at the University of Arkansas, Hibbert is building his fitness base...
Keeara Whyte dominated the Portmore Missionary Junior Table Tennis tournament in Portmore at the weekend, with controlled victories over national team colleagues in two separate age categories. Nigerian Adeniyi Akindele was in charge of the newly...
For student-sportsmen who wish to compete at competitions organised by the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA), the body in charge of high school sports in Jamaica, there are two basic requirements: go to school and do your schoolwork...
PROFESSOR DR Winston Davidson was a no-nonsense defender, a total team man and an integral member of one of the most dominant high school football teams ever, the 1964 Kingston College aggregation. Speaking days after Davidson’s passing on...
World and Olympic 400-metre bronze medal winner Greg Haughton has publicly thanked former St Elizabeth Technical High (STETHS) head coach Mike Ollivierre for his encouragement at the 1993 World Championships. Speaking earlier this month at the...
Mark Phillips joined the ranks of national table tennis champions in August, but he isn’t resting on his laurels. He will travel shortly to Washington to compete at the Joola North American Team Championships. He expects to profit from the high...
To serve the high school track and field community better, the St Catherine High School PTA 5K Run/Walk has been moved to November 26. According to race director Paul Brown, the event now fits high school training programmes far better. “The...
The arrival of African student-athletes may have heightened interest in distance running in Jamaica. That’s the estimation from Keith Wellington, president of the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA), the governing body of high-school...
When 1964 Olympian Rupert Hoilett was laid to rest last Saturday after a funeral service at The University Chapel at Mona. The occasion mixed sadness at his passing with a sense of gratitude for his life and work. Among those present were Olympic...
Even though she’s just 21, 100-metre hurdler Ackera Nugent is already inspiring the student-athletes at Excelsior High School, the institution she last represented in 2020. That’s the insight from Desmond Shakespeare, the patriarch of the Excelsior...
The future of the Wesley Powell Track Meet at Excelsior High School has been assured for at least the next five years by the expansion of the involvement of the P.A. Benjamin Manufacturing Company. At Wednesday’s launch of the 20th staging of the...
WHEN NAVASKY Anderson crossed the line in third position in Saturday’s men’s 800-metre final at the 19th Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, it was more than just a personal milestone for the lanky national record holder. His bronze, along with...
National junior champion Joel Lamm defended home turf with a fine under-19 win at the Wolmer’s Table Tennis Classic last Saturday. Playing in the school’s resplendent maroon and gold, the 15-year-old Lamm outlasted Conroy Henry 20-18, 11-4, 8-11,...
Brigitte Foster-Hylton, Jamaica’s first world champion in the 100-metre hurdles, will be inducted into the Texas State Hall of Honour later this month. Foster-Hylton, who represented the university from 1996 to 1998, will be inducted with...
Jamaica’s national anthem boomed throughout the Julio Martínez National Stadium in Santiago, Chile, yesterday, courtesy of 400-metre hurdler Jaheel Hyde. Competing in the 19th Pan American Games, Hyde clocked a winning time of 49.19 seconds to...
The Mount Alvernia High School pair of all-round sprint prospect Carletta Bernard and long jumper/sprinter Aaliyah Foster have joined the University of Texas on track scholarships, while Boys’ and Girls’ Championships and Carifta Games 200-metres...
Samantha Hall has kick-started Jamaica’s medal tally in track and field at the 19th Pan-American Games in Santiago, Chile, with a third-place finish in the women’s discus final yesterday. Fighting technical issues in the final, Hall fouled her...
The men’s and women’s discus throw finals will be staged today at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, with two-time defending champion Fedrick Dacres carrying hopes of a medal for Jamaica. World Championship competitor Samantha Hall...
WHEN TRACK and field resumes tomorrow at the Pan-American Games in Santiago, Chile, don’t expect a repeat of the record-breaking 2019 performance that saw Jamaica collect 15 medals. However, the 2023 squad may produce enough quality to bring...
A flurry of coaching changes in the past month has seen Olympic champion Lamont Jacobs, World champions Fred Kerley, and Dina Asher-Smith and Commonwealth champion Ferdinand Omanyala all making big moves. The changes run against the view that...
JAMAICA TABLE Tennis Association president Andrew Lue believes Sandra Riette fully deserved the national honour she received on Heroes Day last week. After dedicated service as both player and coach, Riette was awarded the Order of Distinction (...
The last time the Pan American Games were this late in the year, Jamaica managed to come home with one gold in a total of five medals. That came after a four-gold, nine-medal haul at the 2011 World Championships, and included an important victory...
