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...
MARVETTE ANDERSON, coach of The Queen’s School netball teams, is still revelling in the success of her juniors, who defied the odds last week Thursday to win the ISSA All-Island competition, beating Manchester High in the final. “Amazing indeed....
URBAN JUNIOR champions, The Queen’s School, and rural senior winners Holmwood Technical, were crowned all-island champions of the ISSA schoolgirls’ netball competition at the National Indoor Sports Centre yesterday. Both matches were close....
WHEN JAMAICA College (JC) lifted the Burger King/ISSA Under-16 (COLTS) football title at the Stadium East on Monday, defeating Wolmer’s Boys’ School 2-1 in the final, they were doing so under new head coach Raymond ‘Stampy’ Watson. Winning...
THE 2023 ISSA schoolgirl netball season will come to an end tomorrow with the All-Island finals set to take place at the Leila Robinson Courts where new champions will be crowned. Urban junior champions, The Queen’s School, will take on rural...
EDWIN ALLEN High’s Class Four athlete Tashana Godfrey and Kitania Headley of St Catherine High, in Class One, were double winners at last Saturday’s Wesley Powell/Benjamins track and field meet at Excelsior High School. Godfrey was impressive...
DEFENDING ISSA urban senior netball champions St Catherine High produced their best performance of the season at the Leila Robinson Courts yesterday to defeat Gaynstead High 42-29 in the final. The Phyllis Thompson-coached St Catherine were the...
AFTER SOME three months of intense competition, the top junior and senior urban and rural high school netball teams will be crowned today in the ISSA schoolgirl competition at the Leila Robinson netball courts. The junior teams will be in action...
ONE OF the most anticipated events at the Penn Relays over the years has been the clash between Jamaica and the USA at the senior level in what is known as the USA vs the World relay. Those relays feature some of the world’s top athletes, normally...
HOLMWOOD TECHNICAL High School’s junior and senior teams are through to the final of the ISSA Schoolgirl Netball final with closer-than-usual wins over Glenmuir High School and Denbigh High schools at the Manchester High School Netball Courts...
MANCHESTER HIGH will host the semifinals of the ISSA rural schoolgirls’ netball competition, with the top junior and senior teams seeking spots in Thursday’s finals set for the Leila Robinson Courts in Kingston. Three schools – Glenmuir High,...
NEW JUNIOR champions will be crowned in the ISSA urban schoolgirls’ netball competition. In the semifinals at the Leila Robinson Courts yesterday, The Queen’s School got the better of defending St Hugh’s High 16-11 to advance to next Thursday’s...
The senior semi-finals of the ISSA urban schoolgirls’ netball competition will be played today at 3 p.m. at the Leila Robinson Courts with defending champions St Catherine High and 2021 champions Gaynstead High the overwhelming favourites to...
IT WAS one-way traffic for Glenmuir High, Holmwood Technical, and Denbigh High schools in the quarter-finals of the Rural ISSA Schoolgirl Netball competition at the GC Foster College netball courts yesterday, all three booking spots in both the...
ATTENTION IN the Rural Schoolgirl Netball competition will be focused on GC Foster College netball courts today with junior and senior teams vying for spots in next Tuesday’s semifinals at Manchester High School. The juniors take to the courts...
THIS FRIDAY at the Leila Robinson netball courts, the two finalists of the Urban ISSA junior schoolgirl netball competition will be decided. Defending champions, St Hugh’s High School will meet The Queen’s School in one semifinal, while Wolmer’s...
HOLMWOOD TECHNICAL’s netballers continued their outstanding form in the ISSA rural schoolgirls’ competition with impressive wins in their rescheduled second-round matches at GC Foster College yesterday. In the final matches of the round, the...
DEFENDING CHAMPIONS Glenmuir High and 12-time winners Holmwood Technical are the two hottest senior teams in the ISSA rural schoolgirls netball competition this season, after several overwhelming wins over their opponents. Today, both teams will...
Jose Marti High defeated St Jago High 29-21 at the Leila Robinson netball court yesterday to advance to the semifinals of the ISSA urban schoolgirls’ senior netball competition. Both teams went into the game locked on six points in Group One and...
HOLMWOOD TECHNICAL’s netballers maintained their dominance over their rivals in the ISSA Rural Schoolgirls’ netball competition after an impressive double in second-round action at Manning’s School yesterday. The Carline Graham-Powell-coached...
TEAMS WILL be seeking semi-final spots when the final matches in the second round of the ISSA urban schoolgirls netball competition are played today at the Leila Robinson courts. Juniors from Wolmer’s Girls, Jose Marti High and The Queen’s School...
ST JAGO High School’s senior netball team’s dream run in the second round of the Urban ISSA Schoolgirl netball competition came to an end at the Leila Robinson Courts yesterday. In a top-of-the-table Group 1 match, they were beaten 43-26 by...
IN THE continued hunt for places in the semifinals of the ISSA Urban Schoolgirls Netball competition, two schools, St Jago High School and Gaynstead High School, will pit their unbeaten seasons against each other as the penultimate set of second-...
GARFIELD GORDON of UCT Steppas and 17-year-old Janeail Henry of Wolmer’s Girls topped the male and female sections, respectively, at yesterday’s CB Group UWI 5K and Run With Passion Kids 1K at the University of West Indies, Mona. Gordon, one of...
