HEAD COACH of the MVP Track Club, Paul Francis, says he is hopeful that athletes at the club will continue their high level of performance this season after 2023 national 100 metres champion Rohan Watson and Tia Clayton won the men’s and...
The G.C. Foster College will take centre stage as local track and field season continues today with the staging of three development meets. Several of the country’s top female and male sprinters, led by World 200 metres champion Shericka Jackson...
THE LOCAL track and field calendar will continue this Saturday with the 41st staging of the JAAA PUMA Fuller-Anderson Development Meet at G.C. Foster College, starting at 9 p.m. The meet is being held at G.C. Foster College for the second time, the...
EDWIN ALLEN HIGH’s Theianna-Lee Terrelonge produced the best performance at last Saturday’s 30th staging of the Pure Water/JC/R. Danny Williams Development meet at the Ashenheim Stadium with a breath-taking personal best and meet record of 11.30...
EDWIN ALLEN High’s quest to regain their girls’ title at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) in March, after being dethroned by first-time champions Hydel High last year, will begin today. Led by Class Two...
THE FIFTH staging of the Ted Dwyer Classics and Pentathlon Challenge meet will be held at Excelsior High School tomorrow starting at 8:30 a.m. One of two development meets in the Corporate Area, with the Pure Water/JC/R. Danny Williams down...
FORMER HYDEL High School sprinter Alana Reid had a phenomenal 2023, easily outdoing all other junior athletes in the country. It all started for Reid at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships in March. The expected clash...
THE BUSY local track and field calendar will get under way on Saturday with the 30th staging of the PureWater/JC/R. Danny Williams Development meet to be held at the Ashenheim Stadium, Old Hope Road, starting at 8:30 a.m. A very popular meet, which...
FORMER ST Elizabeth Technical High School athletes Javorne Dunkley and Shamer Blake will make their professional debut at tomorrow’s On Di Run Sprint FEST 200-metre meet at Jamaica College, which begins at 2 p.m. On Di Run, the brainchild of meet...
THE 2024 local track and field season will get under way on Saturday, January 6 with the 30th staging of the Pure Water/JC/R. Danny Williams Development meet to be held at the Ashenheim Stadium, Old Hope Road, starting at 8:30 a.m. The very...
Four local high-school coaches have given mixed views on the move by the Penn Relays organisers to return to their original schedule next year after a slight adjustment in 2023. For the first time in the history of the meet, the most popular relay...
THE JAAA PUMA Fuller/Anderson Development meet, so named in honour of two outstanding sports administrators who started the meet, will be held at a new venue this season. The meet, which will be held on Saturday, January 13, will be moved from its...
FOR A number of years, the likes of Christania Williams, Kevona Davis, Serena Cole, Tia, and Tina Clayton have lit up the track in the sprints for Edwin Allen High School. This season, Dyke is turning to another name he thinks is a supreme talent....
THE JAMAICA Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) has confirmed that Jamaica will be taking part in the newly branded Global Relays at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia next year. Fans attending the 128th staging of the Penn Relays were gifted...
SUNSHINE GIRL netballer Shanice Beckford is more than a little pleased at being the latest Jamaican to sign to play professional netball in Australia’s Suncorp Super Netball League (SNL), joining five other countrywomen. The 28-year-old recently...
PRESIDENT OF the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) Garth Gayle has praised the country’s athletes and administrators for a successful year in the sport. “There are those who did well on the track and behind the scenes, working...
MARVETTE ANDERSON, coach of The Queen’s School netball teams, is still revelling in the success of her juniors, who defied the odds last week Thursday to win the ISSA All-Island competition, beating Manchester High in the final. “Amazing indeed....
URBAN JUNIOR champions, The Queen’s School, and rural senior winners Holmwood Technical, were crowned all-island champions of the ISSA schoolgirls’ netball competition at the National Indoor Sports Centre yesterday. Both matches were close....
WHEN JAMAICA College (JC) lifted the Burger King/ISSA Under-16 (COLTS) football title at the Stadium East on Monday, defeating Wolmer’s Boys’ School 2-1 in the final, they were doing so under new head coach Raymond ‘Stampy’ Watson. Winning...
THE 2023 ISSA schoolgirl netball season will come to an end tomorrow with the All-Island finals set to take place at the Leila Robinson Courts where new champions will be crowned. Urban junior champions, The Queen’s School, will take on rural...
EDWIN ALLEN High’s Class Four athlete Tashana Godfrey and Kitania Headley of St Catherine High, in Class One, were double winners at last Saturday’s Wesley Powell/Benjamins track and field meet at Excelsior High School. Godfrey was impressive...
DEFENDING ISSA urban senior netball champions St Catherine High produced their best performance of the season at the Leila Robinson Courts yesterday to defeat Gaynstead High 42-29 in the final. The Phyllis Thompson-coached St Catherine were the...
AFTER SOME three months of intense competition, the top junior and senior urban and rural high school netball teams will be crowned today in the ISSA schoolgirl competition at the Leila Robinson netball courts. The junior teams will be in action...
ONE OF the most anticipated events at the Penn Relays over the years has been the clash between Jamaica and the USA at the senior level in what is known as the USA vs the World relay. Those relays feature some of the world’s top athletes, normally...
HOLMWOOD TECHNICAL High School’s junior and senior teams are through to the final of the ISSA Schoolgirl Netball final with closer-than-usual wins over Glenmuir High School and Denbigh High schools at the Manchester High School Netball Courts...
