WHEN THE 2024 Penn Relays carnival begins on Thursday April 25, local schools Hydel High and Kingston College (KC) will be hoping for a three-peat in the Championships of America girls’ and boys’ 4x400 metres after capturing the event in 2022...
THE ANSIN Sports Complex in Miramar, Florida will be buzzing with excitement today as 29 Jamaicans will be in action at the 2024 Miramar Invitational meet. World 200 metres champion Shericka Jackson was expected to make her season debut at the...
FOLLOWING ITS 38th consecutive medal-table-topping performance at the 51st staging of the Carifta Games which ended in St George’s, Grenada, on Monday, president of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA), Garth Gayle, is singing...
THE DUST has now settled following the conclusion of the 2024 ISSA-GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs). Edwin Allen High regained the girls’ title for win number 10 and Kingston College retained the boys’ crown for title...
KINGSTON COLLEGE’S (KC) head coach Leaford Grant is still celebrating after his team easily held off main rivals Jamaica College (JC) to top the 2024 ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics’ Championships at the National Stadium at the...
GOING INTO the 2024 ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs), Edwin Allen High were overwhelming favourites for the girls’ title. However, despite their very strong all-round team, the Michael Dyke-coached team had to...
History was made in the triple jump open for girls on the fourth day of the five-day ISSA-GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships at the National Stadium last night. For the first time, three female athletes at the championships went...
ONE OF Kingston College’s (KC) most loyal supporters is former Senior Superintendent of Police Steve McGregor who graduated from the North Street, Kingston-based school in 1986. McGregor, as usual, was clad in his full purple and white outfit as he...
DEFENDING BOYS’ champions, Kingston College (KC) and former girls’ champions Edwin Allen High have narrow leads going into today’s fourth day of competition at the 2024 ISSA-GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships at the National...
One of the outstanding stars of Boys’ Championships in the mid- to late 1980s, former Calabar High athlete Daniel England, was back at the National Stadium yesterday to support the athletes from the Red Hills Road-based school. England, who...
Veteran journalist and broadcaster Robert ‘Bobby’ Fray was among the fans at the National Stadium on yesterday’s third day of competition of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs). Fray, a past student of both...
IT ISN’T often that a gold medal winner at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships isn’t all smiles, but that was the case for Edwin Allen’s Theianna-Lee Terrelonge, who, after a sluggish start yesterday at the National...
THOUGH THERE were no finals on yesterday’s opening day of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships, Edwin Allen High School’s outstanding Class 2 athlete, Theianna-Lee Terrelonge, had the small crowd expressing ‘oohs and aahs’...
IN ANY championships there are certain key clashes that fans always look forward to, and it will be no different at this year’s ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships. We look at 10 of these likely clashes – five boys and five...
AFTER HER move from Holy Childhood High to Wolmer’s Girls’ sixth form at the start of the 2023-24 academic school year, Abigail Wolfe was expected to play a key role in her team’s performances in Class One at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’...
ST JAGO High’s Class Three star Marquies Page, who was strongly tipped to be one of the stars of the 2024 ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Championships, has been forced out of the meet by an injury. The defending Classs Three 100-metre hurdles...
Defending boys’ champions Kingston College (KC) and former girls’ winners Edwin Allen High will start as overwhelming favourites to top the 2024 ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) when the world’s most popular high...
National sprinter Oblique Seville stole the show in the men’s 200 metres at the Velocity Fest 14 meet held at the National Stadium last Saturday. Fourth-place finisher in the 100m at last year’s ‘ World Athletics outdoor Championships in Budapest...
AFTER ONLY gaining eight points and finishing 21st overall among the girls at the 2021 ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships, Immaculate Conception High have shown tremendous improvement since and head coach Franz Forde is...
SEVERAL athletes from non-traditional schools are expected to make their mark at next week’s ISSA-GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships. Leading the way for the girls is Shanoya Douglas of Muschett High. She will be competing in...
SENIOR ATHLETES competing at the 128th staging of the Penn Relays, scheduled for Franklin Field, Philadelphia, from April 25-27, will have added motivation. The Penn Relays office, in a recent media release, announced that the popular meet has now...
DEFENDING BOYS’ champions, Kingston College (KC), are odds on favourites to defend their title at this year’s ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships which gets underway next Tuesday inside the National Stadium. The North Sreet-...
PLAGUED By multiple mishaps last year Edwin Allen High’s bid to make it nine girls’ titles in a row, and 10 overall, at last year’s ISSA-GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships was derailed by Hydel High. The Frankfield-based school...
BRIANNA LYSTON produced two impressive performances in the women’s 60 metres on last Saturday’s final day of the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in Boston. Lyston who qualified for the final with the joint third-fastest time of 7.07...
FERNCOURT HIGH School’s Class Four athlete Rihanna Scott has been in awesome form this season and she will be hoping to carry that form into the March 19-23 ISSA-GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs). She will contest the...
