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Published:Tuesday | February 3, 2026 | 12:14 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

LAST Saturday’s staging of the STETHS-Olliviere-Smith Invitational meet, held at St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS), was well supported by high school teams from the western part of the island, with several athletes making their first...

Published:Monday | February 2, 2026 | 12:16 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

WORLD Athletics Championships 4x400 metres silver medallist Dejanea Oakley continued her terrific winter season form at the weekend. Competing at the Arkansas Razorback Invitational for the University of Georgia, she stormed to a world indoor-...

Published:Saturday | January 31, 2026 | 12:12 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

The build-up for this year’s ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) continues today with the staging of two JAAA-sanctioned track and field meets. The Ted Dwyer Classics will be held at Stadium East in Kingston, while in...

Published:Saturday | January 31, 2026 | 12:12 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA College (JC), on Thursday, became the first team to advance to the finals of the ISSA Urban Under-16 Schoolboys Basketball competition. The Duane Cunningham-coached team, playing at home, got past Campion College 60-51 in their second...

Published:Friday | January 30, 2026 | 12:07 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

DANIELLE WILLIAMS, the world leader in the women’s 60 metres hurdles, will be one of eight Jamaicans in action at the 118th staging of the Millrose Indoor Games in New York on Sunday. Williams, who sits atop the event following her world-leading 7...

Published:Thursday | January 29, 2026 | 12:09 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

When the 41st staging of the STETHS-Olliviere-Smith Invitational meet gets under way this Saturday at St Elizabeth Technical High School, western teams who have been struggling since Hurricane Melissa will once again be the main beneficiaries. Meet...

Published:Thursday | January 29, 2026 | 12:09 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Defending champions Campion College and St George’s College drew first blood in the semi-final round of the ISSA Urban Under-19 schoolboy basketball competition on Tuesday, both recording important victories over their opponents. In the best-of-...

Published:Wednesday | January 28, 2026 | 12:10 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

In October of 2025 when Hurricane Melissa struck, the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) was the furthest thing from the minds of track and field coaches from parishes in western Jamaica. One month, two months passed...

Published:Monday | January 26, 2026 | 12:11 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

EXCELSIOR High’s intermediate hurdlers Jaeden Campbell and Kishawn Hoffman stole the spotlight at Saturday’s staging of the Central Hurdles, Field Events and Relay meet at G.C. Foster College. Campbell captured the Class Two 400m hurdles in 53....

Published:Monday | January 26, 2026 | 12:11 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

TWO-time World 100 metres hurdles champion Danielle Williams continued her unbeaten indoor run in the women’s 60m hurdles at last Saturday’s New Balance Indoor Grand Prix track meet in Boston, Massachusetts. Williams clocked a world-leading 7.87...

Published:Saturday | January 24, 2026 | 12:07 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

CLARENDON College’s throwing standout, Marla Kay Lampart, was the star performer at the recent JAAA/Charlie Fuller Field Events meet held at Manchester High School. The defending Class One discus champion and national Under-20 shot put record...

Published:Saturday | January 24, 2026 | 12:07 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

THE 2026 JAAA track and field season continues today with the staging of the McKenley/Wint Classic at Calabar High School and the Central Hurdles, Field Events and Relays meet at GC Foster College. Both meets are set to start at 8:30 a.m. Support...

Published:Tuesday | January 20, 2026 | 12:09 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Ryan Peralto, a member of the Gibson McCook Relays Organising Committee, is very upbeat about this year’s staging of the event, despite a truncated programme. Peralto is the man in charge of registration for the 49th staging of Jamaica’s premier...

Published:Friday | January 16, 2026 | 12:12 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Defending ISSA Urban Schoolboy Under-19 Basketball champions Campion College maintained their unbeaten run in the competition on Tuesday after getting by Calabar 78-53 in quarterfinal action. A dominant third quarter for the defending champions, in...

Published:Friday | January 16, 2026 | 12:12 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Following last Saturday’s opening track and field meet of the year, the Pure Water/R. Danny Williams Development meet at the Ashenheim Stadium, things will shift into high gear tomorrow with the staging of four more. In what will be a busy day of...

Published:Thursday | January 15, 2026 | 12:10 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Tia Clayton and Jonielle Smith of MVP Track Club, who were members of Jamaica’s silver medal-winning women’s 4x100-metre relay team at last year’s World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, will feature in the women’s 60 metres at this Saturday’s PUMA...

Published:Monday | January 12, 2026 | 12:10 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

World Championships 4x400-metre silver medallist Dejanea Oakley was in fine form in the opening race of her indoor season at the Clemson Indoor Invitational on Saturday. Competing for the University of Georgia, Oakley sped to a personal-best 35.94...

Published:Monday | January 12, 2026 | 12:10 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Led by a brilliant 11.34-second performance from Alexxe Henry in the Class 1 Girls’ 100 metres at Saturday’s 32nd staging of the Pure Water/R Danny Williams Development Meet at the Ashenheim Stadium, Edwin Allen’s girls swept the shortest sprint in...

Published:Wednesday | January 7, 2026 | 12:12 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

The year 2025 was another good one for the country’s junior athletes, with the likes of Briana Campbell, Shanoya Douglas, and Sabrina Dockery on the girls’ side, and Gary Card among the boys, producing outstanding individual performances. Though...

Published:Saturday | January 3, 2026 | 12:09 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Demish Gaye, the 2019 national 400 metres champion, has called time on his track and field career after competing at the senior level for more than 10 years. The 32-year-old Gaye, who made his first senior team in 2016 as a member of the men’s...

Published:Tuesday | December 30, 2025 | 12:08 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Ardenne High School’s Mowan Bonnick is making waves in the ISSA Urban Schoolboy Basketball Competition, producing remarkable performances that have helped his team to stay in touch with defending champions and favourites, Campion College. In his...

Published:Saturday | December 27, 2025 | 12:09 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

THE past season has been a very good one for G C Foster College of Physical Education and Sports, as the institution recorded one of its best overall performances in a long time, dominating their rivals by winning several collegiate team titles. It...

Published:Friday | December 26, 2025 | 12:11 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

HEAD track and field coach at Edwin Allen High School, Michael Dyke, was very pleased with the performances of his girls at the recent Audret E/Kevon Robinson Invitational meet, held at Foga Road High School. The current season has been a very...

Published:Friday | December 26, 2025 | 12:07 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

WHEN Denbigh High School’s netballers broke an eight-year drought by winning their fifth all-island junior netball title, defeating Wolmer’s Girls’ by two goals in the final, one of the happiest persons inside the G.C. Foster College auditorium was...

Published:Tuesday | December 23, 2025 | 12:09 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Track and field head coach at Edwin Allen High School, Michael Dyke, was very pleased with the performances of his girls at the recent Audret E/Kevon Robinson Invitational Meet, held at Foga Road High School. The present season has been a very...

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