BALTIMORE, Maryland: FOUR OF Jamaica’s top high school athletes – Shanoya Douglas, Alliah Baker, Damor Miller and Kemarrio Bygrave – are looking forward to tomorrow’s clash with their United States counterparts at the East Coast International...
SEVERAL OF the country’s collegiate teams were in attendance over the past weekend at the Penn Relays, competing against some of the powerhouses of the United States, including the University of Houston, Texas A...
Jamaica’s triple jump star Jaydon Hibbert started his professional career on a winning note after capturing the event at the Bermuda Grand Prix on Sunday. Hibbert produced a wind-aided 17.33 metres. Hibbert, the World Under-20 champion, made two...
FORMER CONVENT of Mercy (Alpha) athlete Chene Townsend is blazing a trail as a track and field coach in the United States. Townsend competed in the heptathlon at Alpha before concentrating on the sprint hurdles and earning a scholarship to West...
WHEN EXCELSIOR High broke a 57-year drought last Saturday at the 128th staging of the Penn Relays to win the high school boys’ Championship of America 4x100 metres, it was a result head coach David Riley expected. The quartet of Ryeem Walker,...
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania: YESTERDAY’S WEATHER in Philadelphia was the best in many years on a Friday at the Penn Relays and Hydel High took full advantage of the excellent conditions to produce two top performances in the high school girls’...
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania HYDEL HIGH’S girls have set their sights firmly on another 4x100 metres, 4x400m double following competition on yesterday’s opening day of the 128th staging of the Penn Relays at the Franklin Field Stadium at the...
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA: THE 128TH staging of the Penn Relays, one of, if not, the world’s greatest relay meets, gets under way this morning at the Franklin Field Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennysylvania. Undoubtedly, the most popular track and...
FORMER MUSCHETT High School and G.C. Foster College athlete, Kadrian Goldson, is on cloud nine after recently earning the Prime Minister’s Youth Award. Goldson and Kemba Nelson received the award for males and females respectively. Last year was...
AFTER OUTSTANDING performances this season, Jamaica College’s (JC) duo of Shaiquan Dunn and Chavez Penn will be hoping to continue their winning ways when they compete this weekend in field events at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia. Dunn, who...
A RECORD number of local high school girls will contest field events at this year’s Penn Relays in Philadelphia. Defending triple jump champion Jade-Ann Dawkins of St Jago High will be one of 26 local girls who will contest five finals which are...
WHEN THE 128th staging of the Penn Relays gets under way in Franklin Field, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, the first event on the track for high school girls will be the preliminary round of the 4x800 metres at 8 a.m. Jamaica time. Edwin Allen High,...
NINE JAMAICANS, headed by last year’s World Championships 100-metre hurdles gold medallist, Danielle Williams, are down to compete in today’s Xiamen Diamond League meet in China. The Diamond League, which has started early this year due to this...
LAST YEAR, led by their superathlete Alana Reid, Hydel High put the brakes on Edwin Allen High’s winning record at the Penn Relays in the Championship of America 4x100 metres at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia. The Corey Bennett-coached team...
Kimar Farquharson was Jamaica’s only winner at the Tom Jones Memorial Invitational meet in Gainsville, Florida, last Saturday. The former Calabar High standout, competing for Texas A/M University, led a Jamaican sweep of the top three places in the...
THE FINAL day of competition at this year’s staging of the 118th Penn Relays in Philadelphia should see another victory for a Jamaican high school in the boys’ 4x100 metres. Jamaican teams have dominated the Championships of America 4x100m and...
JAMAICA ATHLETICS Administrative Association (JAAA) president Garth Gayle says Jamaica will not be following United States Track and Field in deciding against going to the World Under-20 Championships in Lima, Peru. USTAF cited security concerns as...
WHILE HAPPY with the news that World Athletics will be giving monetary rewards to gold medallists at the Paris Olympics later this year, legendary track and field coach Glen Mills believes that the sport’s organising body can go a step further....
WHEN THE 2024 Penn Relays carnival begins on Thursday April 25, local schools Hydel High and Kingston College (KC) will be hoping for a three-peat in the Championships of America girls’ and boys’ 4x400 metres after capturing the event in 2022...
THE ANSIN Sports Complex in Miramar, Florida will be buzzing with excitement today as 29 Jamaicans will be in action at the 2024 Miramar Invitational meet. World 200 metres champion Shericka Jackson was expected to make her season debut at the...
FOLLOWING ITS 38th consecutive medal-table-topping performance at the 51st staging of the Carifta Games which ended in St George’s, Grenada, on Monday, president of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA), Garth Gayle, is singing...
THE DUST has now settled following the conclusion of the 2024 ISSA-GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs). Edwin Allen High regained the girls’ title for win number 10 and Kingston College retained the boys’ crown for title...
KINGSTON COLLEGE’S (KC) head coach Leaford Grant is still celebrating after his team easily held off main rivals Jamaica College (JC) to top the 2024 ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics’ Championships at the National Stadium at the...
GOING INTO the 2024 ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs), Edwin Allen High were overwhelming favourites for the girls’ title. However, despite their very strong all-round team, the Michael Dyke-coached team had to...
History was made in the triple jump open for girls on the fourth day of the five-day ISSA-GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships at the National Stadium last night. For the first time, three female athletes at the championships went...
