When Jamaica College’s 4x800m Penn Relays team of 1999 was recently inducted into the Penn Relays Wall of Fame, it marked the 12th time in history that a Jamaican high school relay unit had been recognised for its achievements. Former female high-...
Head coach of Edwin Allen High School’s female track and field team Michael Dyke is happy with his charges’ performances at the recently concluded Penn Relays in Franklin Field, Philadelphia. The school from Frankfield, Clarendon, was the most...
Head track and field coach of Meadowbrook High School, Dino Rochester, is singing the praises of his girls, who recently participated at the 130th staging of the Penn Relays at Franklin Field, Philadelphia. In his first track and field coaching...
Multiple-time champions Calabar High School found the going tough at the recent Penn Relays held in Philadelphia, while St Jago’s male and female teams, who have also been successful over the years, failed to add to their tally but had encouraging...
Jamaican athletes scored three individual wins in collegiate events at the 130th staging of the Penn Relays, with one coming on the track and two in the field. Leading the way was Gary Card, representing the University of Technology. Competing in...
LAST Saturday’s final day of competition at the 130th staging of the Penn Relays at Franklin Field in Philadelphia was a special day for former national long jumper Elva Goulbourne. Goulbourne, a former Dinthill Technical and Auburn University...
FRANKLIN FIELD, Philadelphia Jamaica College’s (JC) Michael Andrae Edwards and Joseph Salmon secured impressive victories in their respective events at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia yesterday. Edwards produced an outstanding performance to break...
FRANKLIN FIELD, Philadelphia HYDEL HIGH completed five consecutive wins in the Championship of America high school girls’ 4x400 metres at the prestigious Penn Relays in Philadelphia yesterday. The Ferry-based school clocked a season’s best 3:32....
FRANKLIN FIELD, Philadelphia COMPETING in her final year at high school, Clarendon College’s Marla Kay Lampart, who won the Championship of America shot put event at the Penn Relays on Thursday with a heave of 14.41m, was not surprised by the...
FRANKLIN FIELD, Philadelphia Inter-secondary champions Edwin Allen High stole the show on yesterday’s opening day of competition for high-school girls at the 130th staging of the Penn Relays, in Franklin Field, Philadelphia. The Michael Dyke-...
FRANKLIN FIELD, Philadelphia High school boys will be back in a familiar time slot when the second day of competition at the 130th staging of the Penn Relays gets under way today in Philadelphia. The boys who competed on the two opening days last...
The 130th staging of the Penn Relays gets under way today at the historic Franklin Field Stadium in Philadelphia with high school girls set to take centre stage on the opening day of competition. The girls return to competing on the first two days...
One of the most eagerly awaited events among high school teams at this weekend’s Penn Relays is the High School Boys Championships of America 4x400m, with the focus surrounding teams like defending champions Kingston College (KC), event leaders...
Girls operating on the opening day of the 130th staging of the Penn Relays will mark one of the highlights at Franklin Field in Philadelphia on Thursday. In 2023, the organisers of the relay carnival introduced a rotational format for high school...
Edwin Allen High School head coach Michael Dyke is oozing with confidence ahead of the Penn Relays, which gets under way on Thursday, expressing high expectations of the team going into the three-day meet. Edwin Allen will be defending their...
Following four years of steady work, Meadowbrook High School’s track and field team is set to make a long-awaited return to the Penn Relays for the first time since 2000. The revival has been led by the school’s young head coach Dino Rochester who...
It was a day of celebration yesterday at Foga Road High School in Clarendon as the institution recognised the outstanding performances of its athletes, especially Shameika McLean and Paul Henry, who struck gold in the girls’ Class Two and boys’...
For the past two decades, Jamaica’s male high-school teams competing at the Penn Relays at Franklin Field, Philadelphia, have shut out their United States counterparts from the top spot in the Championships of America 4x100-metre relays, and this...
“SHANOYA is executing what she has been doing in training, and I expect greater things from her,” said coach Garth Smythe, in an exclusive interview with The Gleaner on Thursday following Shanoya Douglas’ outstanding performances at the recent...
FOLLOWING another table-topping performance at the recent Carifta Games in St George’s, Grenada, local junior athletes will now turn their attention to competing for their respective high-school teams at the 118th staging of the Penn Relays,...
Shanoya Douglas was in imperious form on yesterday’s third and final day of Carifta Games inside the Kirani James Athletic Stadium in St George’s, Grenada, demolishing Bahamian Shaunae Miller-Uibo’s 2013 record of 22.77 seconds on her way to...
Jamaica’s dominance at the Carifta Games looks set to continue when the 53rd staging gets under way this morning at the Kirani James Athletic Centre in St George’s, Grenada. Just a week after strong performances at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and...
Edwin Allen High School had several individual winners at the recent ISSA GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs), but undoubtedly their biggest winner was heptathlon champion Brittany Baron, who did the impossible by...
Edwin Allen High School turned Frankfield blue yesterday, celebrating their 11th ISSA/raceKennedy Girls’ Athletics Championships title with a high-energy campus rally and street parade. Students and supporters packed the school grounds before...
One of the most improved teams on the male side at the recent ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships was Wolmer’s Boys’ School. The team from Heroes Circle made significant progress from the previous year, moving up from sixth...
