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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
WHILE SHERICKA Jackson’s nomination for the 2023 Women’s World Athlete of the Year award is good news, the Jamaican will find herself in an almighty fight with some of the outstanding names on the list of nominees. The Jamaican, who specialises in...
The Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) and the Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA) have both reacted with shock at yesterday’s shooting death of Gibbs Williams, a vice principal at the G.C. Foster College of Physical Education...
Campion College’s senior netballers remained perfect in Zone D of the ISSA urban schoolgirls netball competition after a big 27-1 win over Holy Trinity High on Thursday. The vastly improved Campion team were picking up their second win in a row...
DEFENDING URBAN ISSA senior schoolgirl netball champions, St Catherine High School, got off to a winning start at home yesterday getting by Vauxhall 45-17 in their Zone B encounter. Led by goal shooter Kellian Hunter with 25 goals, and Kayla...
HOLMWOOD TECHNICAL were double winners on Thursday in the ISSA rural schoolgirls netball competition as the Carline Graham-Powell-coached junior and senior teams had easy wins in their Zone D encounters at Mile Gully High. In the opening game...
Captain Jhaniele Fowler, Jamaica’s best player at this year’s Netball World Cup in South Africa, was recently named in the team of the tournament. Playing in her normal goal-shooting position, Fowler scored the highest number of goals in...
ACTION IN the 2023 Urban ISSA schoolgirl netball competition will get underway today with the playing of matches in three zones. Defending senior champions, St Catherine High School, who stopped Gaynstead 26-23 in the final last year for their...
IT IS OFFICIAL. After two successful stints coaching the national netball team Connie Francis has called it a day and is moving on. Undoubtedly, the most successful coach of the national senior team after doing so from 2007 to 2011 and 2019 to...
National triple jumper Shanieka Ricketts is on a high following a satisfactory end to the 2023 track and field season. Ricketts, after her fourth-place finish in the event at the Budapest World Championships, went over 15 metres for the first...
WHEN PREPARATION for the 2023-24 high school track and field season started recently, it did so with several of the teams having new coaches in their respective programmes. Calabar High School, who finished third at last year’s ISSA/GraceKennedy...
IT WAS A glorious final day yesterday for Jamaicans at the Wanda Diamond League final in Eugene, Oregon, with Shericka Jackson and Hansle Parchment leading the way with wins to walk away with Diamond trophies while there were top-three finishes...
FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS. For the next two days, starting today, most of the world’s leading track and field athletes will be involved in intense clashes as the Wanda Diamond League crowns its champions at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene. Ten...
THE women’s 100 metres has been one of the top events on the track and field circuit all season and tomorrow’s race at the Diamond League finals in Eugene should be hotly contested. The red hot Sha’Carri Richardson of the United States will be...
OLYMPIC Champion Hansle Parchment and World Champion Grant Holloway of the United States will feature in a mouth-watering clash in the men’s 110-metre hurdles on Sunday, day two of the Wanda Diamond League final in Eugene, Oregon. Holloway is the...
WHILE THE attention will be focused on the American duo of world champion Noah Lyles and Christian Coleman, as well as Botwana’s Letsile Tebogo in this Saturday’s men’s 100 metres at the Diamond League final in Eugene, Oregon, Jamaica’s Kishane...
