Favourites to claim a seventh ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships title in a row, Edwin Allen eased into the final of the girls Class One 4x100 metres inside the National Stadium this evening. The Michael Dyke-coached team,...
Edwin Allen’s Shamoyea Morris heaved the discus to 40.19 metres to record the longest throw in the preliminary round of the Class Two event at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships today. Morris’ mark is almost two metres...
Fresh off her silver medal in the 100 metres on Wednesday evening, Hydel’s Brianna Lyston cruised to 24.21 seconds to win heat one of the girls’ Class One 200 metres at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships at the National...
FRESHLY-MINTED ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships Class One 100 metres champion Tina Clayton was low on confidence entering last evening’s final, but a pep talk from her mother and coach got her across the line. Tina, who is...
IT WAS all joy at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships for Camperdown’s Victoria Christie as she dedicated her gold medal to her mother, Joy Christie, who was celebrating her birthday yesterday. Christie won the Class...
CALABAR’S HIGH school sprinter Nicholas Newby was an emotional figure after advancing to the semi-finals of the boys’ Class One 100 metres at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) at the National Stadium and he had...
General secretary of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF), Dalton Wint, says the local football governing body will be moving very swiftly to install the next head coach of the Reggae Boyz team. The contract of interim head coach, Paul Hall, ended...
Holmwood Technical’s head coach Dave Anderson has warned his rivals that his girls’ team should not be taken lightly at this year’s ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs). The championships is scheduled for April 5-9 at...
Top female jockey Samantha Fletcher is set for another long spell off the track after suffering two fractures to the upper part of her body at Caymanas Park last month. Fletcher is now nursing a fractured left collarbone and another fracture to a...
Interim head coach of Jamaica Reggae Boyz Paul Hall said he believes that he has done enough to improve the national side to convince the hierarchy of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) that he should be given the job on a long-term basis....
KINGSTON COLLEGE’S (KC) head coach Leaford Grant has brushed aside assertions that they are the firm favourites to win this year’s ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships. KC, who last won the championships in 2019, have been...
Former Rusea’s, Vere Technical and Hydel High School standout Lamara Distin broke the national high jump record to win the event at the Texas Relays in the United States today. Competing for Texas A...
National striker Leon Bailey says he has a very important role to play in this rebuilding phase of the Reggae Boyz and he is very excited about the crop of players that have been selected for the final three matches of the FIFA World Cup qualifiers...
The Class One boys’ shot put promises to be one of the most interesting events at this year’s ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Championships (Champs), and Kingston College’s (KC) Altwayne Bedward is hoping to stand atop the podium at the end of...
EDWIN ALLEN’S head coach, Michael Dyke, believes that it is quite possible that the girls’ Class One 100 metres at this year’s ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships could produce its first ever sub-11 clocking. Jamaica’s Class...
NEIL HARRISON, coach of Jamaica College (JC), and Michael Dyke, his counterpart from Edwin Allen, two of the persons attempting to mould young charges into athletes and citizens, are delighted at the news that there will be 60 scholarships going to...
The Government of Jamaica will be awarding 60 scholarships to athletes participating at this year’s ISSA/GraceKEnnedy Boys’ and Girls’ Championships. The announcement was made by minister of sports, youth and culture, Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange....
President of the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) Keith Wellington said his organisation will be very vigilant in enforcing COVID-19 protocols at this year’s ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships. Wellington...
AFTER MORE than a two-year absence, stemming largely from the COVID-19 pandemic, Netball Jamaica (NJ) Supreme Ventures-sponsored divisional leagues is scheduled to resume next month. The leagues, which comprise of the A and C competitions, is set...
Kingston College (KC) schoolboy Christopher Pearson made a dream start to life in the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) competition with an 89th-minute goal to help Cavalier to a 2-0 win over Molynes United at Sabina Park yesterday. Kyle Ming scored...
President of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA), Garth Gayle, says his organisation will be working very closely with the various stakeholders to decide on suitable dates for their World Athletics Championships training camp....
St Jago’s Annishka McDonald won the JAAA Carifta Trials Girls Under-20 high jump with a leap of 1.78 metres at the National Stadium today. McDonald won the event ahead of Wolmer’s Girls’ Malaika Cunningham (1.75m) and Torian Caven from Vere, who...
The National T10 cricket competition which is scheduled to begin on April 19, will signal the restart of the Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA) competitions. O’Neil Cruickshank, the JCA’s head of cricket operations and development, told The Gleaner...
PRESIDENT OF the inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) Keith Wellington said the organisation has been given approval from the Government to use a new system for the purchasing of tickets to next month’s ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls...
Lenworth Hyde, head coach of Portmore United, says yesterday’s hard-fought 1-0 victory over Montego Bay United in the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) will instil a lot more confidence in his team as this is the first time they were recording back-to-...
