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PHOTO FLASHBACK: Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships

Published:Friday | March 31, 2023 | 7:59 AM
Members of the Jamaica College track and field team, which secured 54 points to win the 42nd renewal of the annual Interscholastic Track and Field Championships at Sabina Park on April 5, 1952. Front row (l-r); Frank Hall, Alex Ewart, John Maxwell, Keith Bair (capt.), Rodney Moodie, Leo Lawson & Winston McKenzie. Middle row (l-r): Howard Nethersole, Colin Gaynair, Howard Hamilton, John Stockhausen, Mr Gerald Foster (coach), Herbert Bramwell, Lascelles Warmington, Robert Marley & Louis Jones. Back row (l-r); Max Maxwell, Emerson Jones, Franklin Powell, Trevor Patterson, Edward Redshaw and Neville Chin Onn.
Kingston College’s 1963 track and field team, which won the 53rd annual inter-secondary track and field title with the unprecedented total of 112.6 points at the National Stadium on Thursday, April 4, Friday, April 5 and Saturday, April 6, 1963, is seen with three officials, who played a major part in making the purple and white boys become the first group to reach 100 points in the history of the championships. In winning their ninth track title, the KC boys collected eight of the ten records made in the meet and also accounted for the established record in the newly introduced 4 x 440 yard relay. Front row (l-r) are Mr. Youngster Goldsmith (coach who skillfully toughened the team with scientific weight training), Lennox Miller, Rupert Hoilette (holding the KC Old Boys Cup for the Class One 440 yards), Mr. Donovan Davis (sportsmaster), Alexander McDonald (captain, holding the Jamaica Schools Championship Sports Cup), Mr. Trevor Parchment (Physical Education director at KC), Raymond Harvey (Vice-Capt. holding the David A. Lindo Shield (for relays won by KC with maximum points from five relays) and Jimmy Grant (Class 2 champion holding the Cowper Cup for the winning Class 2 relay team). Second row from bottom (l-r): Dwight Anderson, Lennox Tulloch, Errol Seaton, Hugh Manhertz, Locksley Wright, Deryck Collins, Clyde Niles, Clive Laidley. Third row (l-r): Dennis Johnson, Junior Walcott, Percival King, Colin Campbell, Paul Robinson, Charles Fuller, Franklyn Morant, Baldwin Smith, Charles Brown. Second row from top (l-r): T. Morgan, Tony Keyes, Leon Tucker, Paul Hinds, Lloyd McLean, Peter Hoyes. Top row: Henry Brown, Ralph Holding, and Arthur Distin. Absent are Oswald Bailey, Warren Chen Sue, C. Green, and John Ulett.
A TROPHY OF TRIUMPH: Kingston College's team captain Willis Harding holds aloft the Championship Cup marking a record seventh successive year of victory in the Inter-Secondary Schoolboys Championships. Youthful admirers look on at the National Stadium on April 6, 1968.
Inter-Secondary Schoolgirls athletic champions: The Mannings High School track and field athletics team, pictured chore with coach Howard Jackson at the stadium on Thursday, March 20, 1969, after totalling 69 points over the two-day championships to emerge winners. Standing from left are: Carol Surgeon, Claudette Gilfillian, Cuty Tomlinson, Rose Washington, Yvonne Hanson, Yvonne Spence, Daphne Pringle, Jenice Dawkins and Claudette Lindo. Kneeling (from left) are Jennifer Wiggan, Sandra Moore, Joan Wiggan, Audrey Patrick, Claudine Walker, Avis Thompson, Joy Williams and Jennifer Lofters. Crouching (from left) are Patricia Lofters, Karen Davis, Olive Tennant, Dawn McLennon, Kamala Brady and Carol Daley. In front are Diana James, Dionne Pryce (Captain) and Evadne Williams.
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After months of vigorous training, the teams were both relieved and pleased to complete the highly anticipated secondary school championships. The celebrations for the winning teams are always heartwarming and grand.