AS USUAL, this year’s staging of the Penn Relays, scheduled to take place inside the Franklinfield Stadium, Philadelphia, from April 27-29, will have its class of inductees to the Penn Relays Wall of Fame. Former St Jago High sprinter, Yohan Blake...
PRINCIPAL OF Edwin Allen High school, Jermaine Harris, is still very positive despite his team’s inability to retain their girls’ title at the recent ISSA Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs), losing out by two points to first-time...
WORLD CHAMPIONSHPS 200-metre champion, Shericka Jackson, continued her season’s preparation by winning the women’s 400 metres at the GC Foster Classics yesterday in a season’s best 52.05 seconds. Drawn in lane six, Jackson covered her rivals in...
WITH JUST over six weeks to go before the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs), high-school athletes turned up the heat at yesterday’s seventh staging of the SW Isaac Track and Field Invitational inside the National...
HEAD COACH of Edwin Allen High school’s girls, Michael Dyke, is happy with his team’s performance at yesterday’s Milo Western Relays at GC Foster. Those performances were led by his Class One’s record-breaking 4x400-metre team. The quartet of Toni...
BOUWAHJGIE NKRUMIE and Serena Cole turned on the speed at the Youngster Goldsmith track meet at the National Stadium yesterday. Kingston College’s (KC’s)captain, Nkrumie, running in the Boys’ Class One 100 metres, showed he is in good shape after...
RANGY CLASS-ONE Hydel High School athlete Oneika McAnuff showed she was in ominous form yesterday at the STETHS Invitational meet when she won the 400 metres in a nippy 54.31 seconds before returning to top the 100 in 11.91. The Ferry-based...
ONE OF the most popular and longest-running relay meets on the local track and field calendar is the Gibson-McCook Relays. And this year’s staging, set for Saturday February 25, will be a very special one, as the meet which began in 1973, will be...
SINCE THE inception of the prestigious Penn Relays in 1964 where Kingston College became Jamaica’s first high school to participate, the island’s secondary education institutions have made their presence felt with dominant performances. The meet...
EDWIN ALLEN’s strength over the years has largely come from middle-distance events and yesterday, the Michael Dyke-coached team, which has won eight female titles at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs), gave a...
EDWIN ALLEN High School’s Serena Cole got her 2023 athletics season off to a fine start, claiming a sprint and long-jump double at yesterday’s staging of the 29th Purewater JC/R. Danny Williams Meet at the Ashenheim Stadium, Jamaica College (JC)....
INTER-SECONDARY SCHOOLS Sports Association (ISSA) president, Keith Wellington, looking back at the end of not just a successful season, but also at the end of schoolgirls’ netball on Friday, is a happy man. Wellington’s pleasure comes from seeing a...
COACHES OF Gaynstead and St Catherine High schools, Dalton Hinds and Phylis Thompson, respectively, are oozing with confidence after their teams scored close victories in the semi-finals of the Urban ISSA Under-19 Schoolgirl Netball competition on...
EDWIN ALLEN High School’s football programme has significantly improved over the past two seasons, and the school’s administration has pinpointed a partnership with the Past Edwin Allen Ballaz Association (PEABA) as the reason for that. The...
CAMPERDOWN HIGH School football coach Donovan Lofters has added his voice to those who have said the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) has mishandled an issue involving allegations of the use of ineligible players in this year’s...
UNDOUBTEDLY, EDWIN Allen High School’s girls have been the most dominant on the track and in the field for the past decade, winning the blue-riband ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) for the past nine years,...
TWO-HUNDRED-metre World Champion, Shericka Jackson, and World Championships 400-metre finalist, Christopher Taylor, will lead 37 athletes – 16 women and 21 men – to the fifth North American, Central American and Caribbean (NACAC) Senior...
RANKED AT 31st in the high jump going into the World Athletics Under-20 Championships, Brandon Pottinger was not favoured to be among the medals. Pottinger, son of former Kingston College sprinter Marlon Pottinger, had a season’s best of 2.14...
ONE OF the events which will attract a lot of attention at this week’s National Senior Championships is the men’s 110-metre hurdles, as the country’s two most successful athletes at the international level in the event, Hansle Parchment and Omar...
LED BY Navasky Anderson’s second-place finish in the men’s 800 metres final, a new personal best 1:45.02 seconds and new national record, Jamaica’s males had three top-three finishes on Friday’s final day of competition for men at the NCAA Division...
AFTER VICTORIES in 2017 and 2018 in the High School Girls’ Championship of America 4x400m at the Penn Relays, the Corey Bennett-coached Hydel High School look well set to return to winning ways this Friday at 4:05 p.m. Jamaican time and make up for...
THE THOUSANDS of fans expected inside the Franklin Field Stadium at this weekend Penn Relays in Philadelphia are in store for something very special in the High School Boys’ Championships of America 4x400m relay finals, which is scheduled for 3 p.m...
DOHA 2019 World Championships silver medallist Danniel Thomas-Dodd was the only Jamaica winner at yesterday’s Mt Sac Relays in Walnut, California, winning the women’s shot put with a heave of 18.92 metres. Thomas-Dodd connected her winning mark on...
VETERAN 400-METRE specialist Stephenie Ann McPherson picked up the country’s first medal on yesterday’s second day of competition at the World Athletics Indoor Champonships in Belgrade, Serbia, as the Tokyo Olympic Games finalist produced a...
WHEN EDWIN Allen’s Class One relay quartet of Serena Cole, Brandy Hall and the Clayton twins, Tia and Tina, broke the Gibson McCook Relays and, in the process, produced a world high-school record of 43.37 seconds, surpassing their old record of 43....
