THE COUNTRY’S top high-school athletes hope to continue their impressive form this season at the fast-becoming-popular East Coast Showcase where they will battle with their United States, Haitian, Belizean, Caymanian, and Canadian counterparts. The...
JAMAICA’S ATHLETES found the going tough at yesterday’s Miramar Invitational Meet at the Ansin Sports Complex in Florida, with sprint hurdler Tyler Mason scoring the only win from the island in the men’s 110-metre hurdles. Mason, an alternate in...
DOUBLE GOLD medallists littered the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Championships inside the National Stadium on yesterday’s final day, eventually claimed by Edwin Allen High School and Kingston College (KC). KC provided a dominant showing. They...
OVER THE years, overseas-based athletes have made their presence felt at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships, the trend set to continue this week. In the past, it was mostly athletes from the Caribbean who participated at...
AT THE recently held ISSA/Grace Kennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships launch, CEO of GraceKennedy, title sponsor of the Championships, Don Wehby, revealed that record breakers in the 200 metres would receive a financial boost. Champs,...
AFTER FAILING to win any of the 4x100-metre relays last year, the Michael Dyke-coached Edwin Allen girls were the most successful team in 4x100m relays at yesterday’s Gibson McCook Relays, winning the Class 1 and 11 events. After a minute of...
BRIANA WILLIAMS was the toast of the SW Isaac-Henry Invitational yesterday at the National Stadium despite facing strong winds when she claimed the 60 metres ahead of Janeek Brown. Running into a negative 1.5-metre per second headwind, Williams...
ONE OF the most popular track and field events on the local calendar, the Gibson-McCook Relays will have its 51st staging next Saturday inside the National Stadium starting at 9:30 a.m. with the preliminary round of the high school boys’ 4x400m...
ROSHAWN CLARKE, of Swept Track Club, and Antonio Watson, of Racers Track Club, treated a crowd at the Camperdown Classic inside the National Stadium yesterday to a dramatic dogfight in the invitational men’s 400 metres. Drawn in lane five, Clarke,...
JAMAICA COLLEGE’S (JC’s) 800-metre athletes, led by Kemarrio Bygrave in Class 1, were in a dominant mood at yesterday’s Queen’s/Grace Jackson Invitational inside the National Stadium. Bygrave, the defending champion in the event at the ISSA/...
THEIANNA LEE Terrelonge, Edwin Allen High School’s outstanding sprinter, was at it once again at yesterday’s 41st staging of the JAAA PUMA Anderson-Fuller Development meet. Fresh off her personal best of 11.30 seconds the previous week at the Pure...
THE PAST year could and maybe should be termed fantastic for the country’s senior netballers with outstanding individual and team performances throughout. The Sunshine Girls participated in three overseas tournaments, with their biggest performance...
JAMAICA’S YOUNG athletes continued showing their prowess on the world stage in track and field in the past year with excellent performances, proving the country has a bright future in the sport. In 2023, Jamaica’s young men came to the fore, in...
JEREMY DELISSER, the man who jumpstarted the career of ace triple jumper Jaydon Hibbert, is proud but not surprised that his former charge copped the Bowerman Award for an outstanding first season at the University of Arkansas. “I am feeling proud...
ONE OF the surprises in the rural ISSA Schoolgirl Netball competition this season was the performance of May Day High School’s senior team. Under the guidance of coach Janet Hunter, they were semifinalists in the competition, finishing fourth after...
ANOTHER YEAR, another title for the Mico University College senior netball team. The Connie Francis-coached team continued their dominance in Intercollegiate netball with a decisive 52-38 win over G.C. Foster College at the Leila Robinson netball...
AT THE National Championships in Jamaica, Rasheed Broadbell announced he was the country’s number-one sprint hurdler. Coming off an injury at the World Championships that kept him out of its 110-metre final a year earlier, Olympic champion Hansle...
A LARGE turnout is expected at today’s CB/UWI 5K set to get under way at 6:30 a.m. at the University of the West Indies with the start at Queensway, near the Assembly Hall. The event, which started in 2012, has attracted a large number of entrants...
MEET DIRECTOR of the Wesley Powell Benjamins Track and Field meet, David Riley, is of the belief that the event, which will be held on Excelsior High School’s nine-lane grass track on Saturday, December 9, will have long-term benefits. Riley, a...
TODAY’S STAGING of the Burger King 5K and Relay in Portmore, beginning at 6:30 a.m., is expected to be the biggest road race so far this season. Alfred ‘Frano’ Francis, managing director of Running Events Jamaica and meet director of today’s event...
HOLMWOOD TECHNICAL continued from where they left off in the first round of the ISSA Schoolgirl Netball competition, picking up wins in the second against Montego Bay High and Green Pond at Manning’s on Friday. The Carline Graham-Powell-coached...
LAST YEAR Glenmuir High School had their best performances in schoolgirl netball, their junior team losing to Holmwood Technical High School in the final while their senior team stopped Manchester High for their first title. Playing at home on...
THIS PAST track and field season is one which Edwin Allen coach Michael Dyke may well want to forget. It was miserable. Edwin Allen High’s girls were found wanting, the Frankfield-based school playing second fiddle to Hydel High School out of Ferry...
OLYMPIAN BERTLAND Cameron, and the winner of the men’s 400 metres title at the inaugural World Championships in 1983 in Helsinki Finland, is back at his alma mater St Jago High, as head coach for the boy’s track and field programme. Cameron took...
WITH RAIN putting paid to their first two matches, former senior schoolgirls’ netball champions Camperdown were in a no-nonsense mood at home on Friday, overwhelming St Andrew High School 41 -3 in their first game of the season in Zone A....
