Two years ago, a Calabar High 4x800 metres relay quartet – Devannah Gayle, Rivaldo Marshall, Kimar Farquharson and Javern Taye Williams – put on an awesome show at the Penn Relays inside the Franklin Field Stadium, Philadelphia. The foursome...
The 2020 ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Championships was expected to be one of the most competitive and exciting in recent years. The meet, like many other sporting events both locally and internationally, has been cancelled for this year...
Last week’s decision by the American National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) Division One Council to give college athletes who compete in spring sports an extra year of eligibility could affect some local high school athletes. The NCAA’s...
Organisers of the annual Penn Relays, one of the world’s biggest track-and-field events for high schools, are taking a wait-and-see approach as the world continues to grapple with the widespread outbreak of the coronavirus. The Penn Relays for 2020...
Edwin Allen High’s Class Two 4x100 metres quartet of Serena Cole, Tina Clayton, Brandy Hall, and Tia Clayton continued their dream season yesterday at the 44th staging of the Gibson McCook Relays inside the National Stadium. Smashing records has...
THE country’s most successful discus thrower at the international level, Fredrick Dacres, slammed the throwing circle at the National Stadium after pulling out of the event at yesterday’s sixth staging of the S.W. Isaac-Henry Invitational meet....
EDWIN Allen High’s ace sprinter Kevona Davis started her 2020 100 metres campaign on a winning note at yesterday’s 19th staging of the Ben Francis Invitational meet at G.C. Foster College of Physical Education and Sport. Davis, like all the other...
Middle-distance runner Natoya Goule was Jamaica’s best finisher at the 113th staging of the Millrose Games indoor track and field meet in New York yesterday. Goule placed second in the women’s 800 metres in one minute 59.35 seconds. American Ajee...
Former Kingston College and University of Auburn star Akeem Bloomfield will be zooming in on the 400 metres for the 2020 Olympic Games year. After competing in only the 200m at last year’s National Senior Championships and failing to finish among...
KINGSTON College’s Ra’John Gray produced an impressive record run in the Class Three boys 100m hurdles at yesterday’s Grace-Puma-Digicel Youngster Goldsmith Classics at the National Stadium. The ISSA Boys and Girls’ Championships 2019 winner gave...
DEFENDING champions Camperdown High took a giant step towards retaining their ISSA urban schoolboys Under-19 basketball title after whipping Kingston College 65-34 to take a 1-0 lead in their first game of the best-of-three finals last Friday. In...
HER fans have been waiting for a long time and the fair-sized crowd at the St Elizabeth Technical Invitational yesterday got something special from Edwin Allen High’s Kevona Davis. Taking to the track for the first time since May 2019, she clocked...
Last year, Excelsior walked away with top honours at the inaugural Americas Federation of Netball Associations (AFNA) tournament, which was held on local soil, after getting the better of Holmwood Technical 46-27. At this year’s staging, Gaynstead...
There was a carnival atmosphere on Thursday as Holmwood Technical and Denbigh High ruled supreme in the ISSA Rural Area Schoolgirl Junior and Senior netball finals at Manchester High School. Holmwood stopped defending champions Denbigh 41-36 to...
Led by top defenders, Latanya Wilson (goal defence) and Shamera Sterling (goalkeeper) UWI ‘A’ maintained their unbeaten run in the Intercol Senior Netball Competition, after dismissing defending champions Mico ‘A’ 37-27 at UWI yesterday. The win...
Jamaican athletes continued their good build-up to next month’s IAAF World Championships in Doha, Qatar, after good performances at the Paris leg of the Diamond League yesterday. Elaine Thompson and Stephenie Ann McPherson led the way with wins in...
FOLLOWING last year’s success by Excelsior High School at home in the first staging of the Americas Federation of Netball Association (AFNA) Champion of Champions high school netball competition, Gaynstead High continued the Jamaican dominance,...
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania: Calabar High School were the toast among high school boys on yesterday’s final day of competition at the 125th staging of the Penn Relays at the University of Pennsylvania’s Franklin Field, successfully...
It was a great start for Jamaica’s young athletes at yesterday’s opening day of the 48th Carifta Games inside the Truman Bodden Sports Complex in The Cayman Islands. Bent on bettering last year’s performance in The Bahamas, where the country...
Enid Bennett High’s Tyrese Taylor was in spanking form in the Class One 800 metres at the Digicel Grand Prix finals at GC Foster College in Spanish Town yesterday. Taylor stopped the clock at 1:48.85 just one hundredth of a second outside the...
KINGSTON College (KC) and Excelsior High won the boys’ and girls’ titles, respectively, on yesterday’s final day of the Digicel/Anthrick Corporate Area Development meet at the National Stadium. Both teams walked away with $250,000 each courtesy of...
National senior representatives Anastasia Le-Roy and Rasheed Dwyer were in great form for Sprintec Track Club at yesterday’s first staging of the John Wolmer Speed Fest meet at the National Stadium. Defending ISSA/Boys champions Calabar High also...
