JAMAICAN high-school boys’ teams have dominated the 4x100 metres at the prestigious Penn Relays for many years, with Camperdown High (nine wins), Kingston College and Calabar High (eight each) and Wolmer’s Boys (six) the top teams. After their...
TWENTY-SIX JAMAICAN athletes, led by World Championships 100-metre finalist Oblique Seville, will invade the Ansin Sports Complex in Florida this Saturday to compete in the Miramar Invitational Meet. Seville, with a personal best of 9.86 seconds in...
VETERAN COACH Michael Carr, the man in charge of the Wolmer’s Girls track and field programme for the past 36 years, has heaped praise on his team after the school finished sixth on 111 points at last week’s ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’...
IT SHOULD be a nail-biting finish to decide the female title at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships at the National Stadium. In the race for the boys’ title, defending champions Kingston College (KC), with a healthy 30-...
Following protests from coaches concerning an error in the preliminary found of the girls’ 70-metre hurdles, there is now a change in the structure of qualifying to the semi-final of the event. The results of the heats will remain but this...
Officiating problems at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships have forced a re-run of the girls’ Class Four 70 metres hurdles, which took place this morning inside the National Stadium. The event will be re-run at 1:00 p.m...
RELAY MISHAPS in the preliminary round may yet hurt the chances of defending girls champions Edwin Allen High and boys contenders Jamaica College (JC) winning, as action continued on yesterday’s third day of competition at the ISSA/GraceKennedy...
HEAD COACH of Alphansus Davis High’s girls, Megan Wilson Copeland, was on cloud nine on Wednesday’s second day of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) inside the National Stadium, after seeing three of her charges...
ON Wednesday’s second day of competition at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships, the Immaculate Conception High pair of Kayla Johnson and Naje Brown pulled off a major surprise by finishing first and second, respectively...
TOP TEAMS experienced fluctuating fortunes on Wednesday’s second day of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships at the National Stadium. Defending girls’ champions Edwin Allen suffered a big blow before the final of the Class...
Devastating news coming out of the Edwin Allen High School camp is that ace sprinter and long jumper, Serena Cole is out of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships 100-metre final. Cole was expected to be in a gigantic clash...
THERE WERE no major hiccups for major title contenders Edwin Allen High and Hydel High among the girls, and Jamaica College (JC) and Kingston College (KC), following the opening qualification rounds as the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’...
Shericka Jackson’s season’s best 50.92 over 400 metres was the highlight at last Saturday’s Velocity Fest 12 meet at the National Stadium. The World 200 metres champion went well below the 52.03 she clocked two weeks ago in her second 400m race...
FOLLOWING HER season’s best 52.05 seconds in winning the women’s 400 metres at the GC Foster Classics two weeks ago, World 200 metres champion Shericka Jackson will be in action over the one-lap event again today inside the National Stadium at the...
WHEN 18-YEAR-OLD former Kingston College jumper, Jaydon Hibbert, ripped up all the records in winning the NCAA Division One Indoor title in his first championships for the University of Arkansas, his former high school coach, Jeremy Delisser, was...
INTERNATIONALLY, JAMAICA’S athletes are known for exceptional performances on the track but over the past few years, field events athletes have stepped up to the plate and this was evident at last weekend’s NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships...
TWO OF the biggest upsets at this weekend’s Carifta Trials inside the National Stadium came on Sunday’s third and final day in the sprint hurdles where St Elizabeth Technical High School’s (STETHS) Habiba Harris and Calabar High’s Shaquan Gordon...
THE three-day trial to select Jamaica’s team to the April 8-10 Carifta Games in Nassau, Bahamas starts today at the National Stadium. Action begins at 4:30 p.m. with the finals of the under-17 and under -20 girls’ shot put. With the ISSA/...
Hydel High are now the girls’ champions for the 2023 Central Athletics Championships. The Corey Bennett-coached Hydel were declared champions following an overnight review of the results of the Class Two girls’ 100 metres hurdles. In a very close...
The three most successful schoolboy teams at the annual ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Championships (Champs), Kingston College (KC), Jamaica College (JC) and Calabar High, will lock horns at the Corporate Area Championships which start at 8:30...
A thrilling battle for the girls’ title went down to the final event at the 2023 Central Athletics Championships yesterday at G.C. Foster College. Hydel High went into the 4x400 metres open for girls just ahead of Edwin Allen High but placed third...
YESTERDAY’S OPENING day of competition at the Central Athletics Championships, as expected, unveiled a dog fight among Edwin Allen, Holmwood Technical, and Hydel High schools’ girls. Contrastingly, among the boys, it has been one-way traffic for St...
AFTER AN underwhelming performance at last Saturday’s Gibson McCook Relays, ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championship (Champs) title holders, Edwin Allen, face the acid test of Central Championships over the next two days. The...
A CASH prize totalling $600,000 will be up for grabs at this year’s G.C. Foster Classics on Saturday, March 11 at G.C. Foster Foster College of Physical Education...
Michael Dyke, head coach of defending inter-secondary girls’ champions Edwin Allen High School, has called on the school’s supporters to remain calm following a below-par performance by his team at last Saturday’s Gibson McCook Relays. Edwin Allen...
