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Published:Thursday | November 16, 2023 | 12:11 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

WITH TWO sets of matches to go in the second round of this season’s Urban ISSA Schoolgirls’ Netball competition, group leaders Gaynstead, St Jago, Norman Manley, and St Catherine high schools still have 100 per cent winning records following action...

Published:Wednesday | November 15, 2023 | 12:11 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

THE THIRD set of matches in the second round of the ISSA Urban Schoolgirl netball competition will continue today at the Leila Robinson Netball Courts. Surprise package, St Jago High School look set to make it three from three when they tackle St...

Published:Wednesday | November 15, 2023 | 12:10 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

WITH LESS than a year to go before the Olympic Games in Paris, double-double sprint champion, Elaine Thompson Herah’s preparation for defending the 100 and 200 metres titles has suffered a setback after another coaching controversy. According to...

Published:Tuesday | November 14, 2023 | 12:11 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

AT SUNDAY’S Burger King 5K Road Race in Portmore, Holmwood Technical’s girls and boys from Jamaica College (JC) and Kingston College (KC) were the most dominant high school teams. This was no surprise. All three schools have one thing in common...

Published:Tuesday | November 14, 2023 | 12:10 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

The senior teams of defending ISSA urban schoolgirls netball champions St Catherine High, Gaynstead High and St Jago High remained perfect after picking up their second straight wins in the competition at the Leila Robinson Netball Courts yesterday...

Published:Monday | November 13, 2023 | 5:20 PMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

World Athletics has reduced the original list of 11 women nominated for World Athlete of the Year to five and Jamaica's Shericka Jackson has made the cut. In a spectacular year where she was unbeaten in the women’s 200 metres, Jackson won the gold...

Published:Monday | November 13, 2023 | 12:10 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

CO-COACH OF the Sunshine Girls netball team, Shawn Murdock, has praised the players after they finished fifth at the Fast5 World Series tournament, which ended yesterday (Jamaica time) at the Christchurch Arena in New Zealand. Jamaica who started...

Published:Monday | November 13, 2023 | 12:10 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

THE SECOND round of the ISSA urban schoolgirls netball competition will continue today at the Leila Robinson Courts, with junior action set to begin at 1 p.m. The spotlight will be on Group One as the the only double winners in last Thursday’s...

Published:Monday | November 13, 2023 | 12:09 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

HOLMWOOD TECHNICAL’S Cindy Rose and Dwayne Graham, representing Rainforest Caribbean, were the top female and male finishers respectively at yesterday’s Burger King 5K and Relay in Portmore, St Catherine. “I am very pleased that I came out with...

Published:Friday | November 10, 2023 | 12:11 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

DEFENDING SENIOR champions St Catherine High and last year’s junior champions St Hugh’s High made winning starts in the second round of the ISSA urban schoolgirls netball competition at the Leila Robinson Courts yesterday. In senior action in...

Published:Wednesday | November 8, 2023 | 12:13 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

FOLLOWING PRELIMINARY-round action in the ISSA Urban Schoolgirl netball competition, teams now turn their attention to hunting for semifinal spots as the first of five set of matches in the second round begins tomorrow at the Leila Robinson netball...

Published:Monday | November 6, 2023 | 12:08 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

DEFENDING SENIOR and junior champions, St Catherine High and St Hugh’s High, closed out their fixtures last Friday with wins to top their respective zones and advance to the second round of the ISSA urban schoolgirls’ netball competition...

Published:Saturday | November 4, 2023 | 12:08 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

JAMAICAN SPRINT hurdler Ronald Levy says he is surprised to have his A sample turn up a positive result for a banned substance. Yesterday afternoon, news broke that the bronze medallist at the Tokyo Olympics had tested positive for a banned...

Published:Thursday | November 2, 2023 | 12:11 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

DEFENDING CHAMPIONS Holmwood Technical and former champions Denbigh High topped their respective Zones of the ISSA rural Schoolgirl Netball competition on Tuesday after big wins helped them book spots in the second round of the competition. Playing...

Published:Tuesday | October 31, 2023 | 12:08 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

SHERICKA Jackson of Jamaica and American Sha’ Carri Richardson are in line for their second World Athletics award this season after both were jointly selected by the governing body for the Fair Play Award. Both athletes were nominated for the...

Published:Saturday | October 28, 2023 | 12:08 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

FORMER CHAMPIONS Holmwood Technical seniors were in a menacing mood, blowing away Bellefield 80-0 to top Zone D on Wednesday. In their two previous games they also had blowouts, a 93-0 win over Porus High School and a 99-0 victory over Alphansus...

Published:Thursday | October 26, 2023 | 12:09 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

LENWORTH HYDE, Phillip Williams, and Jerome Waite are just three of the coaches pulling double duty this football season, managing charges in both schoolboy football and the Jamaica Premier League, powered by Wray and Nephew. The 2023 schoolboy...

Published:Thursday | October 26, 2023 | 12:08 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

NORMAN MANLEY High School’s senior netball team continued their unbeaten run in Zone E of the ISSA Urban Schoolgirl netball competition on Tuesday, with their latest win coming over Queen’s High School. In a very close encounter, playing at home,...

Published:Monday | October 23, 2023 | 12:08 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

President of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) Garth Gayle says his recent national award has left him with a ‘humbling and exhilarating’ feeling. Gayle was one of the more than 120 Jamaicans who received national awards...

Published:Saturday | October 21, 2023 | 12:10 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

MONA High head coach Craig Butler is confident his team can go all the way in the ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup after they blanked St Catherine High 2-0 in their final game in Group E of the competition yesterday. Mona ended the preliminary round with a...

Published:Saturday | October 21, 2023 | 12:10 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

ST CATHERINE High dominated St Jago High in Zone B of the ISSA urban schoolgirls’ netball competition at St Catherine High yesterday. The St Catherine juniors won 29-20 while the seniors were 41-32 winners. In the senior game St Jago were seeking...

Published:Friday | October 20, 2023 | 12:09 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

SPANISH TOWN-BASED St Catherine High and St Jago High will clash today at St John’s Road in Zone B of the preliminary round of the ISSA urban schoolgirls netball competition. The junior teams will meet at 1:15 p.m. before the seniors take the...

Published:Thursday | October 19, 2023 | 12:13 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

IN THE clash of unbeaten teams in the Urban ISSA Schoolgirl netball competition yesterday between St Hugh’s High School and Campion College, the former mined bragging rights with easy wins in their Zone D senior and junior encounters. With both...

Published:Wednesday | October 18, 2023 | 12:08 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

THE PRELIMINARY round of the Urban ISSA Schoolgirls’ netball competition will step up a notch today with St Hugh’s High School hosting Campion College at home in Zone D at 2 p.m. in both junior and senior action. Both teams are unbeaten this...

Published:Saturday | October 14, 2023 | 12:08 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

HOLMWOOD TECHNICAL High’s senior netball team members have sent a powerful message to their rivals with two massive blow-out wins during the past week in the ISSA rural schoolgirls competition. They first blew away Porus High 93-0 then returned...

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