Devastating news coming out of the Edwin Allen High School camp is that ace sprinter and long jumper, Serena Cole is out of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships 100-metre final. Cole was expected to be in a gigantic clash...
THERE WERE no major hiccups for major title contenders Edwin Allen High and Hydel High among the girls, and Jamaica College (JC) and Kingston College (KC), following the opening qualification rounds as the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’...
Shericka Jackson’s season’s best 50.92 over 400 metres was the highlight at last Saturday’s Velocity Fest 12 meet at the National Stadium. The World 200 metres champion went well below the 52.03 she clocked two weeks ago in her second 400m race...
FOLLOWING HER season’s best 52.05 seconds in winning the women’s 400 metres at the GC Foster Classics two weeks ago, World 200 metres champion Shericka Jackson will be in action over the one-lap event again today inside the National Stadium at the...
WHEN 18-YEAR-OLD former Kingston College jumper, Jaydon Hibbert, ripped up all the records in winning the NCAA Division One Indoor title in his first championships for the University of Arkansas, his former high school coach, Jeremy Delisser, was...
INTERNATIONALLY, JAMAICA’S athletes are known for exceptional performances on the track but over the past few years, field events athletes have stepped up to the plate and this was evident at last weekend’s NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships...
TWO OF the biggest upsets at this weekend’s Carifta Trials inside the National Stadium came on Sunday’s third and final day in the sprint hurdles where St Elizabeth Technical High School’s (STETHS) Habiba Harris and Calabar High’s Shaquan Gordon...
THE three-day trial to select Jamaica’s team to the April 8-10 Carifta Games in Nassau, Bahamas starts today at the National Stadium. Action begins at 4:30 p.m. with the finals of the under-17 and under -20 girls’ shot put. With the ISSA/...
Hydel High are now the girls’ champions for the 2023 Central Athletics Championships. The Corey Bennett-coached Hydel were declared champions following an overnight review of the results of the Class Two girls’ 100 metres hurdles. In a very close...
The three most successful schoolboy teams at the annual ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Championships (Champs), Kingston College (KC), Jamaica College (JC) and Calabar High, will lock horns at the Corporate Area Championships which start at 8:30...
A thrilling battle for the girls’ title went down to the final event at the 2023 Central Athletics Championships yesterday at G.C. Foster College. Hydel High went into the 4x400 metres open for girls just ahead of Edwin Allen High but placed third...
YESTERDAY’S OPENING day of competition at the Central Athletics Championships, as expected, unveiled a dog fight among Edwin Allen, Holmwood Technical, and Hydel High schools’ girls. Contrastingly, among the boys, it has been one-way traffic for St...
AFTER AN underwhelming performance at last Saturday’s Gibson McCook Relays, ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championship (Champs) title holders, Edwin Allen, face the acid test of Central Championships over the next two days. The...
A CASH prize totalling $600,000 will be up for grabs at this year’s G.C. Foster Classics on Saturday, March 11 at G.C. Foster Foster College of Physical Education...
Michael Dyke, head coach of defending inter-secondary girls’ champions Edwin Allen High School, has called on the school’s supporters to remain calm following a below-par performance by his team at last Saturday’s Gibson McCook Relays. Edwin Allen...
FORMER Kingston College (KC) athlete Jaydon Hibbert, a triple jump gold medallist at last year’s World Under-20 Championships in Cali, Colombia, continued his fine form indoors at the weekend. Hibbert, who now attends the University of Arkansas...
The 46th staging of the Gibson McCook Relays is on at the National Stadium today with the Caribbean’s leading relay carnival back to its original format after a shortened meet last year which saw finals only and lasted just over four hours. Today’s...
One of the top performers among the boys at Tuesday’s Eastern Athletics Championships was 14 year-old Class Three athlete Rasheed Grant of St Mary High School. Grant wrote his name in the record books twice after producing new marks in the 400...
ST MARY High School’s dominance at the Eastern Athletics Championships continued yesterday as the Dwayne Williams-coached team was crowned overall champions for the seventh time in a row. St Mary amassed 672.50 points to leave Titchfield High...
FANS at Saturday’s Gibson McCook Relays inside the National Stadium will be in for an extra treat as some of the country’s top senior athletes will line up for the men’s and women’s 60 metres. Prize money totalling US$50,000 (approx. J$7.7m) will...
FIELD event athletes, led by Cedricka Williams of Holmwood Technical High and Calabar High’s Kobe Lawrence, produced several record-breaking performances at last Saturday’s S. W. Isaac-Henry Invitational meet at the National Stadium. Williams, who...
More than 1,600 athletes are down to compete at the seventh staging of the S.W. Isaac-Henry Invitational today at the National Stadium. The meet starts at 8:15 a.m. Top high school female teams, Edwin Allen, Hydel and Holmwood Technical, three...
RHONDA WHYTE struck a purple patch from 2017 to 2019, hitting the top of her game at the senior level in the women’s 400-metre hurdles. The former Maggotty High School athlete, with little or no success at the junior level, joimed the Sprintec...
Two big meets are on today as the local track and field season continues its buildup to the annual ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships and next summer’s World Athletics Championships. GC Foster College in Spanish Town will...
SIXTEEN ATHLETES from defending ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) teams, Kingston College (KC) and Edwin Allen High School, left the island for Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday to compete in today’s Trinidad and...
