HOLMWOOD TECHNICAL High’s senior netball team members have sent a powerful message to their rivals with two massive blow-out wins during the past week in the ISSA rural schoolgirls competition. They first blew away Porus High 93-0 then returned...
WHILE SHERICKA Jackson’s nomination for the 2023 Women’s World Athlete of the Year award is good news, the Jamaican will find herself in an almighty fight with some of the outstanding names on the list of nominees. The Jamaican, who specialises in...
The Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) and the Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA) have both reacted with shock at yesterday’s shooting death of Gibbs Williams, a vice principal at the G.C. Foster College of Physical Education...
Campion College’s senior netballers remained perfect in Zone D of the ISSA urban schoolgirls netball competition after a big 27-1 win over Holy Trinity High on Thursday. The vastly improved Campion team were picking up their second win in a row...
DEFENDING URBAN ISSA senior schoolgirl netball champions, St Catherine High School, got off to a winning start at home yesterday getting by Vauxhall 45-17 in their Zone B encounter. Led by goal shooter Kellian Hunter with 25 goals, and Kayla...
HOLMWOOD TECHNICAL were double winners on Thursday in the ISSA rural schoolgirls netball competition as the Carline Graham-Powell-coached junior and senior teams had easy wins in their Zone D encounters at Mile Gully High. In the opening game...
Captain Jhaniele Fowler, Jamaica’s best player at this year’s Netball World Cup in South Africa, was recently named in the team of the tournament. Playing in her normal goal-shooting position, Fowler scored the highest number of goals in...
ACTION IN the 2023 Urban ISSA schoolgirl netball competition will get underway today with the playing of matches in three zones. Defending senior champions, St Catherine High School, who stopped Gaynstead 26-23 in the final last year for their...
IT IS OFFICIAL. After two successful stints coaching the national netball team Connie Francis has called it a day and is moving on. Undoubtedly, the most successful coach of the national senior team after doing so from 2007 to 2011 and 2019 to...
National triple jumper Shanieka Ricketts is on a high following a satisfactory end to the 2023 track and field season. Ricketts, after her fourth-place finish in the event at the Budapest World Championships, went over 15 metres for the first...
WHEN PREPARATION for the 2023-24 high school track and field season started recently, it did so with several of the teams having new coaches in their respective programmes. Calabar High School, who finished third at last year’s ISSA/GraceKennedy...
IT WAS A glorious final day yesterday for Jamaicans at the Wanda Diamond League final in Eugene, Oregon, with Shericka Jackson and Hansle Parchment leading the way with wins to walk away with Diamond trophies while there were top-three finishes...
FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS. For the next two days, starting today, most of the world’s leading track and field athletes will be involved in intense clashes as the Wanda Diamond League crowns its champions at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene. Ten...
THE women’s 100 metres has been one of the top events on the track and field circuit all season and tomorrow’s race at the Diamond League finals in Eugene should be hotly contested. The red hot Sha’Carri Richardson of the United States will be...
OLYMPIC Champion Hansle Parchment and World Champion Grant Holloway of the United States will feature in a mouth-watering clash in the men’s 110-metre hurdles on Sunday, day two of the Wanda Diamond League final in Eugene, Oregon. Holloway is the...
WHILE THE attention will be focused on the American duo of world champion Noah Lyles and Christian Coleman, as well as Botwana’s Letsile Tebogo in this Saturday’s men’s 100 metres at the Diamond League final in Eugene, Oregon, Jamaica’s Kishane...
HANSLE PARCHMENT and Shanieka Ricketts warmed up for this weekend’s Diamond League finals in Eugene, Oregon, with wins in their events yesterday in Croatia. Competing at the final World Continental Gold Tour series in Zagreb, Parchment, the...
World 200 metres champion Shericka Jackson produced a brilliant run at the yesterday’s Allianz Memorial Van Damme Diamond League in Brussels but the world record 21.34 seconds for the half-lap event, set in 1988 by American Florence Griffith Joyner...
TODAY COULD turn out to be very special for Jamaica’s track and field star Shericka Jackson. A very confident Jackson, the world 200 metres champion and fastest female alive in the half-lap event, spoke to the media at a press conference...
WORLD ATHLETICS Championships 4x100 metres relay silver medallist Natasha Morrison warmed up for her crucial Diamond League 100 metres race in Brussells tomorrow by winning the event yesterday in Roverto, Italy, in a meet record 11 seconds flat....
ATHLETES WILL have last chances to earn spots at next weekend’s Diamond League finals in Eugene when they compete tomorrow and Friday at the Memorial Van Damme Diamond League Meet in Brussels. World Championships 200 metres champion, Shericka...
Olympic champion Elaine Thompson Herah picked up her first 100 metres win of the season yesterday when she captured the 100 metres in a season’s best 10.92 seconds at the Gala del Castelli Bellinoza World Athletics Continental Tour Silver level...
JAMAICANS Natasha Morrison, Amoi Brown, Danielle Williams and Ronald Levy picked up wins at two track and field meets in Europe yesterday. At the Citta Di Padova World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze meet in Italy, Morrison, a semifinalist in...
Eleven Jamaican athletes, headed by World Championships 110-metre hurdles silver medallist Hansle Parchment, will compete at today’s Xiamen Diamond League in China. Parchment will once again be in a battle with World champion Grant Halloway of the...
WORLD CHAMPIONS Shericka Jackson and Danielle Williams scored good wins at yesterday’s Zurich Diamond League meet in Switzerland. Jackson continued to dominate rivals over 200 metres while Williams, like she did in Budapest, produced another...
