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PHOTO FLASHBACK: Boys and girls athletic Championships

Published:Friday | April 8, 2022 | 8:04 AMA Digital Integration & Marketing production
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Robin Thompson of Jamaica College heaves the shot putt on the final day of the Inter-Secondary Track Games at the National Stadium in April 1963.
Kingston College’s 1963 track and field team, which won the 53rd annual inter-secondary track and field title with an unprecedented total of 112.6 points at the National Stadium in April 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. Front row (left to right); Mr Youngster Goldsmith (a coach who skillfully toughed the team with scientific weight training); Lennox Miller; Rubert Toilette, holding the JC Old Boys Cup for class 1 are 440 yards, Mr Donovan Davis (sports master), Alexander McDonald (captain, holding the Education director at KC), Raymond Harvey (vice-captain 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 Anderson, Lennox Tulloch, Errol Seaton, Hugh Manhertz, Locksley Wright, Deryck Collins, Clyde Niles, Clive Laidley. Third row (L to R): Dennis Charles Fuller, Franklyn Morant, Balwin Smith, Charles Brown. Second row McLean, Peter Hoyes. Top row: Henry. Absent is Oswald Bailey.
The Mannings High School track and field athletics team, pictured here 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.
Excelsior's outstanding athlete in the Inter-Secondary Schoolboys athletic Championship, Garth Case (left), is seen receiving the Jamaica College Old Boys Cup for winning the Class 1 44o yards race from Mr Sam Brown (left), former headmaster of Titchfield High School, at the presentation of cups and medals at the National Stadium on Saturday night, April 6, 1968, after the Championships.
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The Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships is one of the most highly anticipated events on the school calendar each year. Schools from across the island put their best athletes on show.