OLYMPIC GAMES silver medallist Shanieka Ricketts was the only Jamaican winner on the final day of competition at the Zagreb Meeting Boris Hanžekovic Memorial in Zagreb, Croatia – a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meet – taking the women’s...
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND: AT THE recent Penn Relays in Philadelphia, young United States quarter-miler Quincy Wilson ran the fastest-ever 400-metre relay split in a high-school boys’ 4x400 relay, clocking 43.99 seconds for Bullis High School, which...
HYDEL HIGH School recovered from losing their Championships of America 4x100-metre relay title in record-breaking fashion on the final day of action at the 129th staging of the Penn Relays at the Franklin Field Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
IT WAS a form of redemption for Jamal Stephenson of Jamaica on the opening day of the 52nd staging of the Carifta Games at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Trinidad and Tobago. Stephenson produced a personal best of 10.24 seconds, running into a...
KINGSTON COLLEGE (KC) enjoyed their fairytale ending to the schoolboy track and field season, capping off their centenary celebrations with a Mortimer Geddes Trophy. Joining KC in celebration will be Hydel High School, who upset the applecart for...
HEAD COACH of Convent of Mercy Academy ‘Alpha’ Kirk King believes in “quality over quantity” for his young team as they compete in this week’s ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs). It has been a rollercoaster season so...
THE KINGSTON College pair of Tahj-Marques White and Marcinho Rose brought the house down on the penultimate day of the Carifta Trials yesterday, finishing one-two in the under-20 boys' 400 metres at the G.C. Foster College. In what was a highly...
ST GEORGE’S College Under-16 and Campion College Under-19 teams are the ISSA Urban Schoolboy basketball champions, having secured identical 2-0 series wins over Camperdown and St Catherine High, respectively, at the National Stadium courts on...
THE CALABAR quartet of Jamal Stephenson, Shaquane Gordon, Dijon Swaine, and Khamali Gordon, the big favourites to win the Boys’ Class 1 4x100 metres at the Gibson McCook Relays, did not disappoint yesterday at the National Stadium, producing a...
DENBIGH HIGH School is renowned for its netball dominance in ISSA competitions, excelling at the under-14, under-16, and under-19 levels. However, quarter-miler Chanton White is determined to shift some of that attention to track and field. He aims...
LIKE HE has been doing all season, St. Jago High’s Ryan Achua continued to prove that he has no match in schoolboy middle and long-distance events. He clocked an impressive time to dominate the field and win the Boys’ Open 5000 metres at yesterday’...
DESPITE A second-place finish in the opening race of her season, Shericka Jackson’s coach at MVP, Paul Francis, is happy. The World Athletics Championships 200-metre gold medallist clocked 7.18 seconds in the women’s 60 metres at yesterday’s Queen’...
OLYMPIC GAMES 100-metre silver medallist Kishane Thompson was the star performer at yesterday’s Central Hurdles, Relays and Field events meet at G.C. Foster College after producing a personal best and world-leading 6.48 seconds to top a strong...
G.C. FOSTER College A team are champions in Intercollegiate senior netball with the Sashagay Henry-coached team, in a brilliant display, dominating first-time finalist Moneague College to beat them 48-28 in the final on Friday night at the Leila...
DEFENDING URBAN senior champions, St Catherine High School’s hopes of repeating their feat suffered damage on Friday after they were beaten 25-20 by former champions, The Queen’s School in their top-of-table Group B ISSA Urban Schoolgirl Netball...
GLENMUIR HIGH School’s juniors recovered from their opening defeat at the hands of Titchfield to get the better of Dinthill Technical in the second set of games in the second round of the ISSA Rural Schoolgirl Netball competition on Friday. The...
GLENMUIR HIGH School’s Orane Watson turned hero yesterday with a hat-trick on his home ground to help his side come from two goals down to earn a hard-fought 4-3 victory over Frome Technical in the first round of ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup quarterfinal...
THE COUNTRY’S senior netballers found the going tough on Friday night at the Fast5 netball tournament in New Zealand. Playing inside the Wolfbrook Arena in Christchurch, the inexperienced Jamaica team failed to pick up a win from three matches. The...
A BRACE from Tobagonian Kaiem Lewis gave St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) a good 2-0 win over Kemps Hill in their top-of-the-table Group One round-of-16 match at the Wembley Centre of Excellence of Sports yesterday. The win put STETHS on...
IN A recent move by the David Riley-led Jamaica Track and Field Coaches Association (JATAFCA), in partnership with the Jamaica Administrative Athletics Association(JAAA), track and field coaches will soon have to be licensed. Effective January 1,...
MCGRATH HIGH School maintained their winning form in the ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup football competition, narrowly clipping Dinthill Technical 3-2 to get their Zone 4 round-of-16 campaign off and running. In what was an exciting encounter, McGrath took...
LAST YEAR’S Beaten finalists, Gaynstead, remained perfect in the Urban ISSA Schoolgirls Netball competition after their latest game on Tuesday. Playing at home, the Dalton Hinds-coached team picked up their third win in a row and stayed on top in...
HAPPY GROVE and Glenmuir registered ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup second-round wins yesterday at a Carder Park double-header to move to six points in Groups 5 and 7, respectively. In the opening game, Happy Grove edged Denbigh 4-3, while in the feature,...
DENBIGH HIGH School defended their home turf, shocking Clarendon College in the ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup football competition yesterday. Denbigh’s win put them on 16 points, three behind Zone leaders Central High School, who came from behind to beat...
JOSE MARTI’S junior and senior netball teams stayed perfect in the ISSA Urban schoolgirl netball competition this week. Playing in Zone F, the Philip Pinnock-coached teams made it three wins in a row after getting by Mona in their away assignments...
