Jamaica’s Skyelar Richards and Carolyn Levy-Powell both recorded new national records yesterday at Trinidad and Tobago’s National Aquatic Centre, to open day one action of the 2025 Carifta Aquatic Championships. The two swimmers had terrific starts...
As the rain poured, so did the goals as Cavalier drubbed Federal United 11-2 in a dominant display of attacking football yesterday to move atop the Jamaica Women’s Premier League (JWPL) standings. With 11 goals from four scorers, Shanel Spence (...
Last year’s beaten finalists Golden Grove United will be looking to go one step further this time around when they face off against York United today in the final of the St Thomas Mckay Security Under-17 competition at York Oval at 4 p.m. Gold...
With the Reggae Boyz set to play in England for the first time since 2014, head coach Steve McClaren said the Unity Cup represents an important opportunity for the Jamaican diaspora to see the team compete live. Jamaica will compete against...
AMERICAN SPEEDSTER Kenneth ‘Kung Fu’ Bednarek became the first racer at Grand Slam Track (GST) to amass a maximum 24 points in their group after he won both the 100m and 200m in the men’s short sprints. Bednarek won the Kingston Grand Slam title...
FOLLOWING HER eye-catching performance at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships where she broke the girls’ Class Four high jump record three times, Immaculate Conception High’s Sanique Watt credited her school’s support for...
WHILE THE ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) continues to attract a large number of track and field fans from home and abroad, vendors at the National Stadium have stated they are seeing a decrease in sales. One of...
SPECTATORS AT the Ashenheim Stadium at Jamaica College (JC) were left entertained as several of the nation’s top athletes delivered impressive performances yesterday at Velocity Fest 16. The top performer of the day was the 400-metre hurdles...
REGGAE BOYZ head coach Steve McClaren was left stupefied by Jamaica’s inability to score after a 1-1 draw with St Vincent and the Grenadines in the first leg of the Concacaf Gold Cup Preliminaries on Friday. “I think we dominated the game. I think...
FOR THE first time since the 2012 World Indoor Championships, Jamaica will not field a team in the women’s 4x400m relays according to the list of athletes selected for this year’s event from March 21-23 in Nanjing, China. A contingent of 24...
IN A match most expected to be a closely fought contest, Frazsiers Whip battered Los Perfectos 7-1 yesterday at the Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex to remain the only perfect team in the Jamaica Women’s Premier League (JWPL). A brace each from...
IN THEIR first home match of the season, UWI Mona Women walked away with all three points, downing Real MoBay AFC 2-0 in a doubleheader at the UWI Mona Bowl yesterday in Jamaica Women’s Premier League (JWPL) action. Lataya Sanchez gave UWI the lead...
GRAND SLAM Track (GST) founder Michael Johnson has responded to recent comments made by Olympic men’s 100-metre champion Noah Lyles regarding the structure of the GST series set to kick off next month. The GST series is a new track league...
DEFENDING JAMAICA Women’s Premier League (JWPL) champions Frazsiers Whip got their title defence under way in dominant fashion, battering UWI Mona Women’s 6-0 yesterday at the Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex. Reggae Girl Davia Richards scored a...
MARK NEITA, president of the Melbourne Cricket Club, has pledged the organisation’s continued support of Special Olympics Jamaica (SOJ) after a donation of $500,000 presented on Friday at the club grounds. The donation was raised from expected...
DR BRIDGET Adams, president and regional director of Americas Netball, has thrown her support behind the Men’s Netball Association of Jamaica (MNAJ) ahead of the fourth staging of its InterCaribbean Male Netball Premiership. Adams praised the...
IN THEIR second game of the Concacaf Girls U20 Qualifiers, Jamaica got the better of Caribbean opponents St Kitts and Nevis 4-0 at the National Football Stadium in Managua, Nicaragua yesterday. Goals from Una Lue (15th minute), Maya Raghunandanan (...
FORMER MEN’S long jump world champion Tajay Gayle is of the belief that, adding to his improved health, his mentality in a World Championship year leaves monumental possibilities open to him. Gayle was the star of the show in the men’s long jump at...
THOUGH THERE is just one more game until the third and final round of fixtures in the Wray and Nephew-sponsored Jamaica Premier League (JPL), Vere Phoenix United technical director Craig Butler is confident his team will survive their relegation...
KINGSTON FOOTBALL Academy (KFA) director and coach, Eric Rademakers, has heaped praises on the inaugural KFC Elite Cup U17 competition as a platform for development for youth football in Jamaica. The Elite Cup currently stands as a new development...
AS EXCELSIOR High reaffirm their ambitions of breaking into the top five at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships, Michael Vassell, head coach of the girls’ programme, said their strength will come from field events. Leading...
AS HE prepares for his first ISSA GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships as head coach of Jamaica College (JC), Duane Johnson says he is not daunted by the weight of expectation on his shoulders. “I don’t feel pressured. The truth is...
AS THE pot covers rang out among the din of an excited crowd at the National Indoor Sports Centre, the Sunshine Girls completed a sweep of their three-match Margaret Beckford Sunshine Series in a 58-47 win against South Africa in the series finale...
IN THE first game of the three-match Margaret Beckford Sunshine Series, Jamaica’s U21 netball team suffered a humbling 31-61 loss to South Africa yesterday at the National Indoor Sports Centre. In an important series being used by both teams as...
EVEN AS the island recorded its lowest Olympic medal tally since the 2004 Athens Games along with heartbreaking setbacks on the track, the sport of track and field could not call the season a loss with new stars emerging throughout. Jamaican...
