SPRINT HURDLER Ackera Nugent continues to break barriers as she shattered the Jamaican women’s 100-metre hurdles record for the second time this year, storming to an impressive 12.24-second win at the Rome Diamond League meet yesterday. Nugent...
CEO of Professional Football of Jamaica Limited (PFJL), Owen Hill, has welcomed the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association’s (ISSA) ruling which allows schoolboy footballers to compete for their clubs during the school season. According to...
Jamaican technical official Sodia Peters said she is ecstatic to stamp her name in the history books as she became the first Jamaican to officiate at the Paralympics during the 2024 Paris Games. Peters has been abuzz during her time in Paris as she...
Having gone trophyless for their second season in a row in ISSA schoolboy football competitions last year, Kingston College (KC) head coach Vassell Reynolds is aware the pressure is on for the ‘famed purples’ ahead of the Manning Cup season. The...
THE JAMAICAN track and field community is in mourning following the passing of sports icon and double Olympic gold medallist George Rhoden. Rhoden died on Saturday at the age of 97. Rhoden was a member of the first Jamaican delegation to compete at...
Having claimed the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Boys’ Under-14 Challenge Series title on Sunday, Reggae Boyz U14 head coach Andrew Peart has applauded his players for what he described as a “brave” performance throughout the tournament. Jamaica...
The under-14 Reggae Boyz ended their Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Boys U14 Challenge Series with fanfare as they struck seven goals past French Guiana to claim the title in a 7-1 demolition last night. It was a second half of dreams for Jamaica...
Former Reggae Boyz under-17 captain Ahir Dixon said he has been settling in well in Europe, having made the move to Serbian SuperLiga club FK Novi Pazar. Dixon made the move to Serbia earlier this month and debuted for the FK Novi Pazar U19 squad...
REINAS ACADEMY founder Neo Oxford has called for more effort to be put in place to aid the development of local female footballers. Oxford, who was speaking after the ISSA Construction Hummel International Reinas Cup, said with the rise in stature...
With the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) daCosta Cup set to kick off on September 7, Manning’s School assistant coach Kevin Williams says his team will be ready to compete for the title despite their late start to the preseason....
Following the end of the 2023-24 National Tackle Football Association’s Secondary Schools Gridiron League (SSGL), Munro College’s Racheed McDonald headlines the lists of the season’s best players. The First Team and Second Team All-Jamaica rosters...
Kevin Cowan, agent of Jamaican international Renaldo Cephas, says the ensuing situation between his client and Turkish club Ankaragücü has become “incredibly unreasonable and unrealistic” amid interest in the transfer market. Cowan explained that...
JAMAICA’S UNDER-14 Reggae Boyz defeated Aruba 5-0 to seal a perfect run in the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) U14 Boys Challenge Series. Jamaica finished atop Group A with four wins from as many games. The fixture, played at the Dwight Yorke...
AFTER TRADING in his football boots for a coaching whistle, former Reggae Boy Xavian Virgo said he has been settling in as the newly appointed assistant coach for Molynes United ahead of the start of the Wray...
While the names Reinas Academy and Neo Oxford have become synonymous with Jamaica’s women’s football development, Oxford said his story only began through happenstance and the pleas of young footballers at Meadowbrook High School. Oxford was the...
Glenmuir High School’s assistant football coach Johnoy Chambers said his team is confident they can end the schoolboy football season with silverware as they intensify their preparations ahead of the daCosta Cup’s September start. The reigning ISSA...
The Jamaica under-20 women’s lacrosse team will be hoping for a better result in their second game of the group stages at the World Lacrosse U20 Women’s Championship following an opening 13-2 defeat by hosts Hong Kong. The opening match, which...
Several schoolboy football coaches have signalled their approval of the Ali Cole Cup format as they use the preseason tournament as part of the preparations for the upcoming Manning and daCosta Cup seasons. The tournament pits 10 Manning Cup and 10...
EXPERIENCED UNDER-20 national players Jenille Wint and Jada Johnson have labelled Jamaica title contenders as they open their campaign at the World Lacrosse Under-20 Championship in an early morning fixture against Hong Kong today. Wint and Johnson...
DESPITE BEING the youngest player in the Jamaican squad set to compete at the World Lacrosse Women’s Under-20 Championship, Hope Wilson is ready to set the stage alight. The girls will open their campaign against Hong Kong tomorrow at 6 a.m. with...
The Jamaica Spartans capped off an impressive showing at the recently concluded North American Regional Powerlifting Championships held in Scottsdale, Arizona. The team secured 15 medals from the 13 athletes sent to represent Jamaica. The National...
With their first game in the World Lacrosse Women’s Under-20 Championship set for Thursday, Jamaica Women’s Under-20 Lacrosse captain Nia Peralto is ready to take to the field and test her mettle against the world’s best. Jamaica will face Hong...
Sporting director of Mount Pleasant Football Academy Paul Christie says he is not concerned that all three Jamaican clubs in the Concacaf Caribbean Cup have been drawn in the same group for this year’s staging. This comes after Arnett Gardens’...
Describing his appointment as receiving the baton in a long-term development plan, newly appointed Reggae Boyz head coach Stephen McClaren said he is hoping to unlock Jamaica’s potential on the international stage. McClaren was speaking at a press...
