FORMER Kingston College (KC) athlete Jaydon Hibbert, a triple jump gold medallist at last year’s World Under-20 Championships in Cali, Colombia, continued his fine form indoors at the weekend. Hibbert, who now attends the University of Arkansas...
The 46th staging of the Gibson McCook Relays is on at the National Stadium today with the Caribbean’s leading relay carnival back to its original format after a shortened meet last year which saw finals only and lasted just over four hours. Today’s...
One of the top performers among the boys at Tuesday’s Eastern Athletics Championships was 14 year-old Class Three athlete Rasheed Grant of St Mary High School. Grant wrote his name in the record books twice after producing new marks in the 400...
ST MARY High School’s dominance at the Eastern Athletics Championships continued yesterday as the Dwayne Williams-coached team was crowned overall champions for the seventh time in a row. St Mary amassed 672.50 points to leave Titchfield High...
FANS at Saturday’s Gibson McCook Relays inside the National Stadium will be in for an extra treat as some of the country’s top senior athletes will line up for the men’s and women’s 60 metres. Prize money totalling US$50,000 (approx. J$7.7m) will...
FIELD event athletes, led by Cedricka Williams of Holmwood Technical High and Calabar High’s Kobe Lawrence, produced several record-breaking performances at last Saturday’s S. W. Isaac-Henry Invitational meet at the National Stadium. Williams, who...
More than 1,600 athletes are down to compete at the seventh staging of the S.W. Isaac-Henry Invitational today at the National Stadium. The meet starts at 8:15 a.m. Top high school female teams, Edwin Allen, Hydel and Holmwood Technical, three...
RHONDA WHYTE struck a purple patch from 2017 to 2019, hitting the top of her game at the senior level in the women’s 400-metre hurdles. The former Maggotty High School athlete, with little or no success at the junior level, joimed the Sprintec...
Two big meets are on today as the local track and field season continues its buildup to the annual ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships and next summer’s World Athletics Championships. GC Foster College in Spanish Town will...
SIXTEEN ATHLETES from defending ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) teams, Kingston College (KC) and Edwin Allen High School, left the island for Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday to compete in today’s Trinidad and...
Former Kingston College (KC) athlete Jaydon Hibbert tasted success in his first competitive indoor outing for the University of Arkansas at the weekend. He captured the men’s triple jump with a personal best of 16.73 metres at the New Mexico...
THE 2023 local track and field season will step up a notch today with the staging of two development meets. The National Stadium will host the Youngster Goldsmith Classics while the JAAA/Puma meet is on at the Jamalco Sports Club in Clarendon....
OUTSIDE OF prizes for top-performing high school teams at this year’s Gibson McCook Relays, its 50th anniversary celebration will also include lucrative cash incentives for the men’s and women’s 60 metres, where a total of US$50,000 (J$7,691,910)...
FORMER high school stars Ackera Nugent and Rosealee Cooper registered wins for their respective colleges in the 60 metres hurdles at indoor meets in the United States last weekend. Nugent, a past student of Excelsior High who is now representing...
For many years a number of the country’s top senior track and field athletes have opened up their competitive seasons at the Queen’s Grace Jackson Invitational meet and it will be no different this time around as several of those who have won...
AFTER A two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the popular Penn Relays held in Franklinfield, Pennsylvania, returned last year where various notable changes took place. When the 127th staging get under way this year from April 27-29, there will be a...
Two track and field development meets are on today. G.C. Foster College will host the Central Hurdles, Throws and Relays meet while Calabar High will stage the McKenley/Wint Invitational with both meets set to begin at 8:30 a.m. At Calabar 2022...
EDWIN Allen High School’s ace sprinter Bryan Levell will open his 2023 season tomorrow when he competes in the Class One 200 metres and 4x100 metres relay at the Central Hurdles and Relays meet at the GC Foster College in Spanish Town. The 19-...
THE 2023 track and field season continues today with the staging of three JAAA development meets. Central Jamaica will host two of the meets. The Manchester High/Charlie Fuller Field Events meet will be held at Manchester High, while the JAAA/...
FILLING THE shoes of Michael Clarke is very difficult but Corey Bennett, the man who has single handedly put Hydel High School’s girls on the map in track and field is now the man at the helm of Calabar High School’s track and field programme and...
Calabar High School’s thrower Kobe Lawrence continued from where he left off last season after two excellent performances at the 29th staging of the Pure Water/JC/R. Danny Williams meet at the Ashenheim Stadium, Jamaica College (JC) at the weekend...
The build-up for the March 28-April 1 GraceKennedy/ISSA Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships continues today with the staging of two JAAA’s development meets starting at 8:30 a.m. At the Ashenheim Stadium, Jamaica College, the 29th staging of...
GLENMUIR HIGH School’s senior netball team created history twice in seven days as the team from May Pen, Clarendon, captured their first Rural Under-19 title after beating Manchester High at the National Indoor Sports Centre before returning to...
IT WAS one-way traffic at the Manchester High School netball courts yesterday as rural area champions Holmwood Technical and Glenmuir High overpowered urban area winners St Hugh’s High and St Catherine High to win their first all-island junior and...
The best junior and senior schoolgirl netball teams in the island will be crowned today. The ISSA all-island netball finals are on at Manchester High School in Mandeville. In junior action at 11:30 a.m., St Hugh’s High will take on Holmwood...
