AFTER A SUPER 2019 season where she finished sixth in the women’s 100 metres final at the World Athletics Championships in Doha, clocking a personal best 11.04 seconds, Jonielle Smith has had a torrid time. Smith would go on to run the third leg on...
TOP HIGH school sprint relay teams will get a chance to compete for cash prizes at this year’s staging of the Camperdown Classics to be held at the National Stadium on Saturday, February 10, starting at 9 a.m. The launch of the 19th staging of the...
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS representative Shashalee Forbes was in spanking form over 60 metres at the Queen’s /Grace Jackson Invitational meet on Saturday at the National Stadium. The Maurice Wilson-coached athlete romped to victory in a world-leading 7...
World Championships 200 metres gold medallist and RJRGLEANER Sportswoman of the Year, Shericka Jackson, will make her season debut in the women’s 60 metres at tomorrow’s Grace Jackson/Queen’s Development meet at the National Stadium. Jackson,...
EDWIN ALLEN High School’s sporting programme got a significant boost yesterday with the handover of a new state-of-the-art gymnasium at a ceremony held at the school to celebrate its 60th anniversary. The gymnasium was handed over by Vergel...
HYDEL HIGH’S Abigail Campbell and Nickecoy Bramwell of Calabar High were the two best performers at last Saturday’s McKenley-Wint Classics at Calabar. Both posted personal best times in winning their events. Campbell, formerly of Ferncourt High...
THE MCKENLEY-WINT Classics at Calabar High, Central Hurdles and Relays meet at G. C. Foster College and the Montego Bay Comets Development meet in St James will be in the spotlight today as the 2024 track and field season continues. The McKenley...
JUMPERS FROM St Elizabeth Technical High (STETHS) are off to flying starts this season after the first two weekends of track and field development meets. Chloe Palmer, Richelle Stanley and Crystal Salmon among the girls, and male jumpers Ricoy...
MUSCHETT HIGH School’s Class Two athlete Johan Smythe will be hoping to continue his good start to the season when he contests the 100 metres at today’s On Di Run Sprint Fest at G.C. Foster College starting at 2 p.m. Competing on back-to-back days...
HEAD COACH of the MVP Track Club, Paul Francis, says he is hopeful that athletes at the club will continue their high level of performance this season after 2023 national 100 metres champion Rohan Watson and Tia Clayton won the men’s and...
The G.C. Foster College will take centre stage as local track and field season continues today with the staging of three development meets. Several of the country’s top female and male sprinters, led by World 200 metres champion Shericka Jackson...
THE LOCAL track and field calendar will continue this Saturday with the 41st staging of the JAAA PUMA Fuller-Anderson Development Meet at G.C. Foster College, starting at 9 p.m. The meet is being held at G.C. Foster College for the second time, the...
EDWIN ALLEN HIGH’s Theianna-Lee Terrelonge produced the best performance at last Saturday’s 30th staging of the Pure Water/JC/R. Danny Williams Development meet at the Ashenheim Stadium with a breath-taking personal best and meet record of 11.30...
EDWIN ALLEN High’s quest to regain their girls’ title at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) in March, after being dethroned by first-time champions Hydel High last year, will begin today. Led by Class Two...
THE FIFTH staging of the Ted Dwyer Classics and Pentathlon Challenge meet will be held at Excelsior High School tomorrow starting at 8:30 a.m. One of two development meets in the Corporate Area, with the Pure Water/JC/R. Danny Williams down...
FORMER HYDEL High School sprinter Alana Reid had a phenomenal 2023, easily outdoing all other junior athletes in the country. It all started for Reid at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships in March. The expected clash...
THE BUSY local track and field calendar will get under way on Saturday with the 30th staging of the PureWater/JC/R. Danny Williams Development meet to be held at the Ashenheim Stadium, Old Hope Road, starting at 8:30 a.m. A very popular meet, which...
FORMER ST Elizabeth Technical High School athletes Javorne Dunkley and Shamer Blake will make their professional debut at tomorrow’s On Di Run Sprint FEST 200-metre meet at Jamaica College, which begins at 2 p.m. On Di Run, the brainchild of meet...
THE 2024 local track and field season will get under way on Saturday, January 6 with the 30th staging of the Pure Water/JC/R. Danny Williams Development meet to be held at the Ashenheim Stadium, Old Hope Road, starting at 8:30 a.m. The very...
Four local high-school coaches have given mixed views on the move by the Penn Relays organisers to return to their original schedule next year after a slight adjustment in 2023. For the first time in the history of the meet, the most popular relay...
THE JAAA PUMA Fuller/Anderson Development meet, so named in honour of two outstanding sports administrators who started the meet, will be held at a new venue this season. The meet, which will be held on Saturday, January 13, will be moved from its...
FOR A number of years, the likes of Christania Williams, Kevona Davis, Serena Cole, Tia, and Tina Clayton have lit up the track in the sprints for Edwin Allen High School. This season, Dyke is turning to another name he thinks is a supreme talent....
THE JAMAICA Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) has confirmed that Jamaica will be taking part in the newly branded Global Relays at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia next year. Fans attending the 128th staging of the Penn Relays were gifted...
SUNSHINE GIRL netballer Shanice Beckford is more than a little pleased at being the latest Jamaican to sign to play professional netball in Australia’s Suncorp Super Netball League (SNL), joining five other countrywomen. The 28-year-old recently...
PRESIDENT OF the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) Garth Gayle has praised the country’s athletes and administrators for a successful year in the sport. “There are those who did well on the track and behind the scenes, working...
