PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania: High-school teams stole most of the spotlight at last weekend’s 127th staging of the Penn Relays in Philadelphia, but several of the country’s senior athletes made their marks at the relay carnival. Competing against the...
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania They did not match the four wins by the boys on Thursday at the 2023 Penn Relays but Jamaica’s girls, led by a record throw from Holmwood Technical’s discus thrower Cedricka Williams, had three massive wins yesterday....
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania ON A VERY rainy and cold day inside the Franklin Field Stadium at the 127th staging of the Penn Relays, Jamaica College (JC) and Kingston College (KC) picked up a win each after taking home the Championship of America...
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania The girls will be in the spotlight in the Franklin Field stadium on today’s final day of competition at the 127th staging of the Penn Relays. They will be competing for a first time on a Saturday at the relay carnival...
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania: Holmwood Technical High’s outstanding 400 metres runner Rickiann Russell is aiming to end her high-school career on a high at this weekend’s 127th staging of the Penn Relays in the Franklin Field Stadium in...
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania: The girls will bow into action at the 127th staging of the Penn Relays inside the Franklin Field Stadium today. Edwin Allen High, Hydel High and Alphansus Davis High will be first on the track when they compete in...
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania: Jamaica College (JC) suffered two big setbacks on yesterday’s opening day of the 127th staging of the Penn Relays in Philadelphia. JC were among the favourites to win the 4x800 metres, 4x400m and 4x100m but, at the...
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania “I AM back stronger and better and we are ready to defend our Penn Relays 4x100 metres relay title.” Those were the strong words from Edwin Allen High School’s outstanding sprinter Serena Cole when The Gleaner caught up...
FRANKLIN FIELD, Philadelphia MOUNT Alvernia High School’s Aaliyah Foster is aiming to make a big impact when she competes in the high school girls’ long jump at the 127th staging of the Penn Relays today. Foster, the ISSA-GraceKennedy Boys and...
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania: WHEN THE 127th staging of the Penn Relays, the biggest relay carnival in the world, gets under way this morning at the Franklin Field Stadium in Philadelphia, it will see a record number of athletes from Jamaica...
AFTER AN encouraging performance at the recent ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships where they finished in the top 10, a very confident Immaculate team of six girls and two coaches left the island yesterday to participate in...
Penwood High will be among several local high school teams making their first appearance at the Penn Relays when the 127th staging of the biggest relay carnival in the world takes place inside the Franklin Field Stadium in Philadelphia,...
A YEAR ago, six Jamaican boys’ teams, led by winners Kingston College (KC), finished in the top seven of the Championships of America High School 4x400 metres final at the Penn Relays (Penns). KC won the event in three minutes 09.52 seconds ahead...
The Michael Dyke-coached Edwin Allen High School girls’ team will be hunting three successive titles when they compete in the 4x800 metres at next week’s Penn Relays in Pennsylvania in the United States. The team won the event in 2019 and 2022....
A YEAR ago at the Penn Relays, the girls’ teams from Edwin Allen High and Hydel High had the Franklin Field crowd in a frenzy during a spectacular clash in the high school Championships of America 4x100 metres. The Edwin Allen quartet, which...
JAMAICAN high-school boys’ teams have dominated the 4x100 metres at the prestigious Penn Relays for many years, with Camperdown High (nine wins), Kingston College and Calabar High (eight each) and Wolmer’s Boys (six) the top teams. After their...
TWENTY-SIX JAMAICAN athletes, led by World Championships 100-metre finalist Oblique Seville, will invade the Ansin Sports Complex in Florida this Saturday to compete in the Miramar Invitational Meet. Seville, with a personal best of 9.86 seconds in...
VETERAN COACH Michael Carr, the man in charge of the Wolmer’s Girls track and field programme for the past 36 years, has heaped praise on his team after the school finished sixth on 111 points at last week’s ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’...
IT SHOULD be a nail-biting finish to decide the female title at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships at the National Stadium. In the race for the boys’ title, defending champions Kingston College (KC), with a healthy 30-...
Following protests from coaches concerning an error in the preliminary found of the girls’ 70-metre hurdles, there is now a change in the structure of qualifying to the semi-final of the event. The results of the heats will remain but this...
Officiating problems at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships have forced a re-run of the girls’ Class Four 70 metres hurdles, which took place this morning inside the National Stadium. The event will be re-run at 1:00 p.m...
RELAY MISHAPS in the preliminary round may yet hurt the chances of defending girls champions Edwin Allen High and boys contenders Jamaica College (JC) winning, as action continued on yesterday’s third day of competition at the ISSA/GraceKennedy...
HEAD COACH of Alphansus Davis High’s girls, Megan Wilson Copeland, was on cloud nine on Wednesday’s second day of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) inside the National Stadium, after seeing three of her charges...
ON Wednesday’s second day of competition at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships, the Immaculate Conception High pair of Kayla Johnson and Naje Brown pulled off a major surprise by finishing first and second, respectively...
TOP TEAMS experienced fluctuating fortunes on Wednesday’s second day of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships at the National Stadium. Defending girls’ champions Edwin Allen suffered a big blow before the final of the Class...
