Published:Sunday | November 5, 2017 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
After last Thursday's postponement because of inclement weather, the first set of senior matches in the second round of the Urban ISSA schoolgirl netball competition will be played this morning at 10:30 at the Leila Robinson Courts.Defending...
Published:Sunday | October 29, 2017 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
After being a successful athlete in her junior and senior years for Jamaica, former Vere Technical High School standout Inez Turner is having the same success in the United States as a track and field coach. Turner is in her first season as head...
Published:Saturday | October 28, 2017 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
Vice-president and liaison international scholastic director of US Elite International Track and Field Incorporation, Jamaican Keisha Thorpe, visited the island last week for the third US-Jamaica Scholarship and Athletic Convention and College Fair....
Published:Monday | October 9, 2017 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
THE Mico University Netball teams, which are defending champions in the Junior, Intermediate and Senior divisions at the intercollegiate level, sent out strong messages to their rivals last Saturday at the G.C. Foster College by dominating the day's...
Published:Sunday | October 8, 2017 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
Jamaica Intercollegiate Sports Association (Intercol) General Secretary Laurence Garriques said that the association is putting on hold, plans to disregard student athletes' grade point averages (GPA) as an eligibility requirement for participation...
Published:Sunday | October 1, 2017 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
It was a winning start for 2016 senior netball champions Camper-down High last Thursday in the ISSA urban schoolgirl netball competition. Playing away in Group B, the Wayne Stewart-coached team had a comprehensive 45-6 win over Edith Dalton James....
Published:Tuesday | September 26, 2017 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
DEFENDING Senior urban netball champions Excelsior High will start the defence of their title today when action in groups C and E in the ISSA schoolgirl competition continues today among senior and junior teams.The defending champions, who compete...
Published:Sunday | September 24, 2017 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
Last year's beaten senior finalist, Gaynstead High, got off to an impressive start in the ISSA Urban Schoolgirl Netball Competition last week when they scored a one-sided 74-2 win over Penwood High, playing at home in a Group F encounter.With goal...
Published:Thursday | September 21, 2017 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
Athletes and officials from G.C. Foster College and the Sprintec Track Club, who travelled with the Jamaica team to the recent IAAF World Championships in London, were honoured at a special reception held at the college yesterday.Minister of...
Published:Tuesday | September 19, 2017 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
Coach of Excelsior High's netball team, Christopher Smart, has warned his rivals that the defending champions will be difficult to dethrone in this year's ISSA senior urban schoolgirls competition."We have lost 50 per cent of last year's winning...
Published:Monday | September 18, 2017 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
THE Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston will host an Inter-Regional Conference on the 'Strategic Use of Intellectual Property in Sport'.The two-day event starts today and will be hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment...
Published:Sunday | September 17, 2017 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
DEFENDING ISSA urban senior schoolgirl netball champions Excelsior High and their rural counterparts Denbigh High will start the defence of their titles when both competitions get under way this week.Action in the Corporate Area will commence on...
Published:Friday | September 15, 2017 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
Jamaica Intercollegiate Sports Association (Intercol Jamaica) president Dalton Myers stood firm in the face of the expected fireworks which met him at the association's Annual General Meeting (AGM) at the Montego Bay Community College on Thursday....
Published:Friday | September 15, 2017 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
IT is now official. Kingston College's athletes can now use their new 350-metre, six-lane synthetic track, following its official opening ceremony yesterday at the Melbourne Park campus of the school on Elletson Road. The new facility will be known...
Published:Sunday | September 10, 2017 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
With more than 250 new students enrolled, the G.C. Foster College of Physical Education and Sport is celebrating its highest intake of students in over three years, for the 2017-18 academic year."For the first time in the last three years, the...
Published:Sunday | September 10, 2017 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
MVP Track Club athlete Jordan Scott, formerly of Mannings School and Petersfield High, died in a car crash on Hope Road yesterday morning. Fellow sprinter Michael Campbell, also of MVP, was a passenger in the car and has been admitted to the...
Published:Wednesday | September 6, 2017 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
AFTER spending the past 10 years as head track and field coach at Johnson C. Smith, a Division II college in Charlotte, North Carolina, Lennox Graham has left to join fellow Jamaican Mark Elliot at Division I outfit Clemson University in South...
Published:Sunday | August 27, 2017 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
WORLD Championships 100m semi-finalist Julian Forte was in blistering form yesterday as he had the best performance by a Jamaican at the Berlin ISTAF World Challenge Meet after clocking a personal best of 9.91 seconds to win the men's 100m sprint....
Published:Saturday | August 26, 2017 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
WHEN Shashalee Forbes of G.C. Foster College won the women's 100 metres at the World University Games in Chinese Taipei last Thursday, it marked the second time an athlete from that institution had mined gold at the Games. The first was Rasheed...
Published:Friday | August 25, 2017 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
G.C. Foster College's Shashalee Forbes is still celebrating her gold medal in the women's 100 metres at the 29th World University Games (WUG) in Chinese Taipei on Thursday.Forbes, an IAAF World Championships relay bronze medallist, won the event...
Published:Thursday | August 24, 2017 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
Jamaica is off the mark at the World University Games in Chinese Taipei with a gold medal in the women's 100 metres. World Championships 4x100 metres bronze medallist , Shashalee Forbes, won the event on Thursday in 11.18 seconds. The G.C...
Published:Monday | August 21, 2017 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
FOUR Jamaicans are currently at the 29th World University Games in Chinese Taipei representing the country in two different sports. Three will do so in track and field and one in swimming.The GC Foster College's Sashalee Forbes is one of two females...
Published:Tuesday | August 15, 2017 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
The 16th IAAF World Championships is now history. It is one which fans of local track and field will want to forget as quickly as possible as Jamaica walked away with just four medals - one gold and three bronze - to finish 16th overall.This is...
Published:Sunday | July 30, 2017 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
YEARS ago, Jamaica's female sprint hurdlers were forces to be reckoned with at the international level as the likes of Brigitte Foster-Hylton, Delloreen Ennis-London, Dionne Rose-Henley, Michelle Freeman, and Lacena Golding-Clarke were right there...
Published:Saturday | July 29, 2017 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
It's Usain Bolt's final IAAF World Championships, and he should sign off with gold in the men's 100 metres.Despite a low-keyed season where he has only competed three times, with only one sub-10 seconds, 9.95, in Monaco, Bolt will not be beaten and...
