JEREMY BEMBRIDGE, Shakwon Coke, Kimar Farquharson, Nickeisha Pryce and Nia Robinson all tasted success at the National Junior College Athletics Association Indoor Championships last week in Pittsburg, Kansas. The victories by Bembridge and...
Immaculate Conception High School didn’t win the Corporate Area Championships team title last week, but a 100 metres sweep has put the school on everybody’s radar. Sprint coach Floyd Quarrie says what Gabrielle Lyn, Mickaila Haisley, Shevi-Anne...
The race for top honours in the Class One 100 metres intensified last Saturday courtesy of Kingston College’s Bouwahjgie Nkrumie and Deandre Daley of Herbert Morrison Technical. Bouwahjgie clocked the fastest Jamaican time of the season - 10.40...
Only two girls have broken 13 seconds in the history of the Class Two 100 metres hurdles at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships, but Kerrica Hill of Hydel High School could be next. Hill was in action at last Saturday’s...
When Jamaica College began to prepare for a defence of their ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Championships team title, middle-distance coach Dwayne Johnson set a target for his 4x800 metres team. The team of Omarion Davis, Handel Robban, Kemario...
After big throws in Kingston and Spanish Town last Saturday, the King of the Ring meet promises to fill its Excelsior High School venue with excitement tomorrow. According to meet director Michael Vassell, that’s because the meet has received...
FOR THOSE who will be among the 10,000 fans to attend the Gibson McCook Relays, there are six high-school athletes to keep an eye on. They are Tina Clayton, J’Voughnn Blake, Rushana Dwyer, Brian Levell, Brianna Lyston, and Gregory Prince. TINA...
EDWIN ALLEN High School discus thrower Damali Williams has a role model of Olympic calibre. The slim 18-year-old admires the approach and achievements of Shadae Lawrence and hopes one day to match Lawrence’s 2021 achievement of throwing in a...
JAMAICA COLLEGE has the legs to run faster than the 4x800-metre record at this Saturday’s Gibson McCook Relays. That’s the word from Jamaica College’s middle-distance coach, Dwayne Johnson. Johnson’s team of Khandale Frue, J’Voughnn Blake, Omarion...
Throwers stood tallest at last Saturday’s Development meet at the G.C. Foster College for Physical Education and Sport, with Edwin Allen High School showing good form in boys and girls discus action. Christopher Young and Trevor Gunzell swapped...
Erica Belvit, Jamaica’s hammer throw champion, is improving each season and now she has her mind on the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon, this July. If the early signs are anything to go by, her chances of making history are pretty good. If...
A SPRITELY performance at last Saturday’s Western Relays has made coach Michael Dyke certain his Edwin Allen High School troops will score big in the 4x800-metre relay. Edwin Allen defied a strong Holmwood Technical to win in 8 minutes 48.57...
The 43rd staging of the Western Relays ended with a bang at the meet’s home away from home, the Spanish Town-based G.C. Foster College, at the weekend. Edwin Allen High School and Kingston College (KC) dominated the proceedings, but it was a cameo...
When Benjamin Alexander and Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian marched the Jamaica flag into the opening ceremony at the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, China, retired Winter Olympian Ricky McIntosh was filled with pride. McIntosh, who was Jamaica’s flag...
On consecutive Saturdays, Remona Burchell has nipped at the heels of two of the world’s fastest athletes. Burchell’s steely determination and the coaching advice of Maurice Wilson are driving her, she hopes, to a shot at the Eugene World...
AFTER A fine run at the New Balance Grand Prix in New York on Sunday, Natoya Goule-Tappin is on target for a strong season in the 800 metres. That’s the view from her coach, fellow Jamaican Mark Elliot. Goule scurried into an early lead and...
OLYMPIC RELAY gold medallist Briana Williams impressed everyone with her 60-metre personal best of 7.09 seconds on Sunday. Among the impressed is her coach, 1997 World 200 champion Ato Boldon, who nevertheless says his 19-year-old sprint student...
FORMER SCHOOLBOY star Michael O’Hara didn’t win his heat of the men’s sprint hurdles at the Fuller/Anderson Development meet last Saturday at the G.C. Foster College for Physical Education and Sport but he crossed the final line smiling. The...
Olympic 100 metres bronze medallist Shericka Jackson earned top billing and Hydel High’s hurdling hopeful Oneka Wilson sparkled at the Fuller/Anderson Development last Saturday. Jackson and Wilson battled stiff winds at the G.C. Foster College of...
When Danielle Williams placed first in Karlsruhe, Germany, in a close 60 metres hurdles race on January 28, the effort got the nod from her coach, fellow Jamaican Lennox Graham. The time was a lifetime best of 7.84 seconds, and Graham was grateful...
In-form sprint hurdlers Danielle Williams and Britany Anderson lead a strong Jamaican contingent to next Sunday’s New Balance Grand Prix in New York. The group of 10 Jamaicans also includes 2016 Olympic 110-metre hurdles champion Omar McLeod and...
Julien Alfred of St Lucia is back and on a mission to reach the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon. That’s the word from her Jamaican high-school coach Marlon James following her sizzling indoor debut over 60 metres in Lubbock, Texas a week ago...
With approval from the health authorities, the Queen’s/Grace Jackson Development meet will celebrate its 20th staging tomorrow at the Stadium East field. According to meet director Olive McNaughton, the event has endured because its scheduling...
WITH A second Olympic gold medal secured last year in Tokyo, Bahamian 400-metre great Shaunae Miller-Uibo is taking aim at the 48-second barrier. That’s the word from her coach, American Lance Brauman, who guided Jamaica’s Veronica Campbell-Brown...
Weeks after the last swim of her storied career, 50- and 100-metre breaststroke world record holder Alia Atkinson is still adjusting to retirement. Atkinson is sure she left the pool at the right time, but she can feel a part of her expecting to be...
