EDUCATOR AND coach Edward Hector has been described as a total human being. The tribute comes days after Hector’s death from Maurice Wilson, the principal of the G.C. Foster College of Physical Education and Sport. Hector and Wilson worked side by...
BOUWAHJGIE NKRUMIE, the World Under-20 100-metre runner-up, takes his duties as captain of Kingston College seriously. Talk to him and it appears that leading his troops is as important to him as his own progress on the track. The St Elizabeth...
AT PENN Relays’ Friday last year, Alana Reid, Brianna Lyston, Kerrica Hill and Oneka Wilson of Hydel High blazed around Franklin Field in the Championships of America 4x100-metre relay and scorched home in 43.69 seconds, fast enough to win every...
DAVE ANDERSON, the head coach at Holmwood Technical High, views this week’s US Track and Field Coaches Association Junior College Athlete of the Week award for his former pupil Calisha Taylor as a continuation of her track and field fairytale....
LAST YEAR, the inaugural Sprint Fest uncorked notable seasons for Sandrey Davison and Greg Prince. Lightning may have struck again on Friday at the G.C. Foster College of Physical Education and Sport as Adrian Kerr broke Davison’s meet record in...
TRACK AND field fans had their fill of big moments in 2022. Here are the 10 that had me applauding the most. March 20 – WORLD INDOOR 4X400 GOLD The splits by Junielle Bromfield, Janieve Russell, Roneisha McGregor and Stephennie Ann McPherson –...
XAVIER GILBERT, the Excelsior High School and Jamaica coach, is predicting that England will move past Senegal today in their FIFA World Cup round of 16 encounter in Qatar. Gilbert reckons the depth England have in attack will be a bit too much...
THE NUMBERS tell one story about Asafa Powell: 97 sub-10s, two World Championship bronze medals, four Olympic finals, two sub-20 200 metre clockings, one Commonwealth Games 100 metre gold and two world records. Beyond those numbers lies a story...
FOOTBALLERS AND fans will have to take care not to overexpose themselves to the heat in Qatar at the FIFA World Cup. That’s the word of advice from Warren Blake, who was president of the JAAA when Jamaica contested the 2019 World Championships in...
I WOKE one morning last week to evidence that anticipation is rising for next month’s kick-off of the World Cup in Qatar. A fan zapped me with a WhatsApp message saying, “I can’t wait for the World Cup.” Everywhere I go, people are buzzing about...
WHEN MERLENE Ottey set the last of her seven national 200-metre records 16 years ago, it was clear that even that performance - 21.64 seconds - could have been improved. Then 31, Ottey battled a headwind gusting at one metre per second in Brussels...
ON OCTOBER 1, 1977, Edson Arantes do Nascimento kicked a football for the last time as a professional. As the icon known as Pele took a victory lap, 77,000 fans in New York’s Giants Stadium chanted, ‘come back King, come back’. Among them was...
HOSTS CHINA started the World Team Table Tennis Championships in Chengdu in style with two big wins and are expected to continue their long-running dominance of the sport. However, with Sweden making inroads at the last two individual World...
ST JAGO High School have consistently been a conqueror in volleyball and their long-serving coach Byron Martin has observed a correlation between athletic performance and academic excellence in the team. Martin believes one feeds the other. A...
WHEN I heard that young sprinter Briana Williams was leaving her long-time coach Ato Boldon, the news made me lean back in my chair. The partnership positioned her for a glittering sprint double at the World Under-20 Championship in 2018. Last...
SIXTY YEARS ago, when Jamaica hosted the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games in the week after Independence, George Kerr was the hero. He christened the brand new National Stadium with a meet record in the 400 metres. Since then, track and...
AFTER HAMSTRING trouble squelched his indoor season, Jordan Scott is triple jumping with confidence again. Scott now reckons he has a good chance of reaching the World Championships qualifying standard in Kingston at the National Championships...
Michael Dyke, coach of Edwin Allen High School, says Jamaica has a very bright future in women’s sprinting. Dyke made the observation after Edwin Allen lowered its own Penn Relays 4x100-metre record to 43.18 seconds on April 29. Serena Cole, Tina...
WHEN LAST Saturday’s Velocity Fest women’s 200 metres was finished, the assembled press swarmed Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. It was a collective act of respect for the woman who is without doubt the most successful 100-metre runner in history. As...
WHEN TAREES Rhoden burst into the lead at the Atlantic Coast Conference indoor 800-metre final on February 26, the move was part of a plan hatched by the tall Clemson University athlete and his coach, Jamaican Mark Elliot. The plan worked as Rhoden...
SANDREY DAVIDSON, Brianna Lyston and Gregory Prince cranked up the speed on Friday afternoon at the first staging of the ONDIRUN Sprint Fest, held at a damp GC Foster College of Physical Education and Sport. The fast trio posted the fastest 100-...
JAMAICANS KIMAR Farquharson and Alliyah McNeil finished last week as the US Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Athletes of the Week. Farquharson, the former Calabar High School 800-metre standout, laid down a fast run over a...
THE JAMAICA Cricket Association (JCA) is encouraged by a recent government assurance regarding the end to COVID-19-related lockdowns. According to O’Neil Cruickshank, the association’s cricket operations and development officer, the Institute of...
TIA CLAYTON was the first of the fast Edwin Allen High School twins to win an individual gold medal at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Championships. Now, with her sister Tina ahead of her, Tia has put her foot back on the accelerator. So...
TINA CLAYTON isn’t the only sprinter from Edwin Allen High School who might have a shot at this year’s Jamaica team to the senior World Championships in Eugene, Oregon. Clayton’s teammate Bryan Levell impressed in 2021 with his run to the National...
