ONE OF the features of the JAAA World Championships Preparation meets is the presence of a number of high school athletes, who would normally be out of season with the climax for them taking place in March and April. One of those athletes, Muschett...
After more than 20 years as the throwing coach at Calabar High, Julian Robinson was recently elevated to head track and field at the Red Hills Road-based school, replacing Corey Bennett. A past student of Calabar and a national senior coach,...
FOLLOWING their epic encounter in the men’s shot put at Sunday’s Rabat Diamond League, the United States’ Payton Otterdahl and Jamaica’s Rajindra Campbell will renew their rivalry in the event today at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meet...
Reigning World 200 metres champion Shericka Jackson eased to victory in her first 100 metres race of the season at yesterday’s Wanda Rabat Diamond League meet in Morocco. Jackson, who clocked 11.04 seconds, found her rhythm mid-race to catch her...
Tina Clayton of MVP Track Club, a second-place finisher at the recent Doha Diamond League, maintained her good form in the women’s 100 metres at Saturday’s JAAA World Athletics Championships Preparation Meet inside the National Stadium. Clayton...
Five-time Olympic Games medallist Shericka Jackson will be in action tomorrow when she lines up in the 100 metres at the Rabat Diamond League in Morocco. The World 200m champion, who pulled out of the Paris Olympic Games last year due to injury,...
OLYMPIC GAMES silver medallist Kishane Thompson will make his first local appearance this season when he competes in the 100 metres at today’s JAAA World Athletics Championship Prep Meet number one inside the National Stadium. Thompson is the...
Jamaica’s Lamara Distin secured a second-place finish in the women’s high jump at yesterday’s World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meet in Zagreb, Croatia. Distin, the Birmingham Commonwealth Games champion in the event, had a keen tussle with...
NATIONAL long jumper Carey McLeod registered a best of 8.33 metres to emerge the only Jamaican winner at last Saturday’s Adidas Atlanta Games, a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver event. McLeod’s winning mark came on his fourth attempt,...
Janice Smythe, a former top athlete at St Elizabeth Technical High School, is one of many who earned track and field scholarships to US universities and later made the transition to coaching roles in that country. Smythe, who specialised in the...
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND: FORMER NATIONAL 400-metre runner Sanjay Eyre is pleased with the way the fourth staging of the The PUMA East Coast International Showcase, held recently on the grounds of Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, has...
BALTIMORE, Maryland: Hydel High’s girls, led by Abigail Campbell, registered three wins at the Puma East Coast International Showcase in Maryland on Saturday. In a very competitive 400m event, Campbell, the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’...
BALTIMORE, Maryland: Meet organiser Sanjay Ayre expects a lot of fireworks at today’s fourth staging of the Puma East Coast International Showcase at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. The meet starts at 10 a.m. The event, which is...
BALTIMORE, Maryland: FOLLOWING their record-breaking performance in the 4x400 metres at last weekend’s Penn Relays in Philadelphia, Hydel High will be hoping to end their season in fine style when they compete at the East Coast International...
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania: PENN RELAYS 2025 will be remembered for a long time at The Mico University College. Led by Rasheed Foster, the Marescaux Road-based institution had its best-ever showing at the prestigious relay carnival. Foster was...
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania St Jago High’s Jade Ann Dawkins won her third straight Championship of America triple jump title at the Penn Relays yesterday with a winning distance of 13.18 metres. Dawkins joined former Vere Technical and national...
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania: ON A BRIGHT and sunny day at the Penn Relays yesterday, Kingston College (KC) and Calabar High produced brilliant performances to capture the Championship of America 4x400 metres and 4x100m titles respectively inside the...
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania: ON WHAT was one of the warmest opening days at the Penn Relays in recent years Jamaica’s high-school boys produced some sparkling performances in the field events at the Franklin Field Stadium yesterday. With...
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvannia: WHEN THE 129th staging of the Penn Relays begins today, a record 24 competitors – led by three champions from the recent Carifta Games in Trinidad and Tobago – will take part in field events. Action this morning begins...
AFTER AN extremely close finish last year, Hydel High School, and Bullis High School will renew their battle for supremacy in the Girls’ High School Championships of of America 4x400 metres at the Penn Relays this weekend. Last time out, at...
EIGHT YEARS ago, a Calabar High School 4x100-metre relay quartet – Tyreke Wilson, Christopher Taylor, Michael Stephens, and Dejour Russell – had the large Saturday afternoon crowd at Franklin Field in a frenzy at the Penn Relays, delivering a...
JAMAICA, LED by Shaquane Gordon’s record-breaking 13.19 seconds, dominated the sprint hurdles on the final day of the 52nd staging of the Carifta Games at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Trinidad and Tobago yesterday. The Jamaicans won three of the...
KINGSTON COLLEGE (KC) will be hoping to defend their Championships of America 4x400m relay title at the 129th Penn Relays and, in the process, make it four wins in a row — adding yet another piece of silverware to their storied sporting legacy in...
SHOT-PUTTER Marla-Kay Lampart led the way as Jamaica dominated the field events on yesterday’s second day of competition at the Carifta Games in Trinidad and Tobago. Lampart, who a few months ago broke the national junior record in the shot put,...
Denbigh High School has been making giant strides in Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) competitions over the past six months. Known for their prowess in schoolgirl netball, where the institution has captured titles at the under-14...
