The Jamaica Suns male netball team will take on South Africa in their opening match in the Americas Netball Championships in St Vincent and the Grenadines today. The game is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. The championships, which will see five teams...
Netball Jamaica (NJ) is seeking $8 million to restart the island’s top netball competition, the Elite League. The Elite League has not been played since 2019 because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent shutdown of most sports across the...
Philip Williams, coach of last year’s beaten semi-finalists St Andrew Technical High School (STATHS), says they will be leaving nothing to chance as they set their sights on finishing at the summit of Zone D of the ISSA/Manning Cup competition....
Kingston College (KC) and St George’s College will renew their rivalry today when they meet in the 58th staging of the Roper Cup football festival at Emmet Park starting at 4 p.m. The North Street-based schools have more than just location in...
WITH THE schoolboy football competitions scheduled to begin in just under three weeks, Keith Wellington, president of the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA), said the organisation would remain very vigilant in maintaining COVID-19...
IN AN effort to reduce its massive electricity bill, Supreme Ventures Racing and Entertainment Limited (SVREL) is now in the process of completing the instalment of its solar energy system at Caymanas Park, which is located Gregory Park, St...
National junior 100 metres record holder Bouwahjgie Nkrumie will be returning to Kingston College (KC) for the upcoming school year after turning down a number of professional clubs and overseas universities. Nkrumie told The Gleaner yesterday...
Reynaldo Walcott, coach of Commonwealth Games 110 metres hurdles champion Rasheed Broadbell, says he is very pleased with the progress that his young athlete has made this year and he believes that he will run much faster before the season ends....
STILL HIGH from the experience of landing a Commonwealth Games silver medal for the first time in history, the Sunshine Girls have been brought back to earth with the harsh reminder of what it takes to remain competitive with the best in the world...
HAVING CLOCKED a massive personal best time in her last competitive race, 400-metre hurdler Rushell Clayton says she is in the shape of her life and intends to run much faster before the season ends. Clayton, who finished fourth at the recently...
Jamaica's Sunshine Girls are now the number-three ranked team in the world. According to the lastest World Netball rankings, released on Monday, the Sunshine Girls have traded places with England, who are now ranked at number four. The Sunshine...
National senior netball coach Connie Francis, who earlier this week indicated that she could walk away from the position because of the mental pressure that comes with the job, said yesterday that the low salary she gets from Netball Jamaica (NJ)...
Edwin Allen High School’s outstanding sprinter Serena Cole will be returning to the Frankfield-based institution for the 2022-2023 school year, according to her coach Michael Dyke. Cole’s teammate Tina Clayton, who defeated her to win the 100...
COREY BENNETT, coach of impressive Jamaican junior hurdler Kerrica Hill, said his charge will not be rushed into joining the professional ranks despite her superb performances on the track this season. According to sources, Hill has received...
Reigning World 100-metre champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce initially had no words to express how she felt about her performance at the Monaco Diamond League meeting yesterday. “I don’t have the words yet to describe how I’m feeling. #Godisgood,” she...
HYDEL HIGH School hurdler Oneka Wilson will be taking her talent to Clemson University for the upcoming school year. At Clemson, the 19-year-old standout will team up with Jamaican Lennox Graham. Wilson’s last outing over the 100-metre hurdles came...
MARVA BERNARD, president of Americas Netball (AN), has described Jamaica’s silver-medal-winning performance at the just-concluded Commonwealth Games as a massive boost for the region and therefore other countries should aim to follow in the...
JAMAICA’S SUNSHINE Girls’ dream of playing in their first international netball final is within touching distance, New Zealand the potential stumbling block they face in the semi-final of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, today. The...
HAVING RECORDED their first-ever victory over Australia at the Commonwealth Games, national senior netball coach Connie Francis said she is backing the Sunshine Girls to win the gold medal in Birmingham, England. The Jamaicans, who won the bronze...
THE JAMAICA Football Federation (JFF) and national senior men’s interim coach Paul Hall are close to agreeing on a long-term deal. A source close to the JFF told The Gleaner yesterday that the federation is pushing for a final agreement this month...
NATIONAL SENIOR netball coach Connie Francis says “it will be business as usual” when the Sunshine Girls go up against Australia in their Pool A top-of-the-table clash at the Commonwealth Games today. The Sunshine Girls, who are unbeaten in the...
Many-time national squash champion Christopher Binnie will go in search of his second win at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, today. Binnie will face India’s Ramit Tandon in the round of 32 of the tournament starting at 6:30 a.m...
DAVID RILEY, technical leader of Jamaica’s athletics team to the World Under-20 Championships in Cali, Colombia, is quietly confident that the country can better previous medal hauls this year. The Jamaicans won 11 medals at the World U20s in...
More than 5,000 athletes representing 72 countries, including Jamaica, will bow into action on today’s opening day of competition at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, following last night’s spectacular opening ceremony. Jamaica...
HEAD COACH of Jamaica’s Sunshine Girls, Connie Francis, is seeing a more relaxed team ahead of their opening match against Wales at the Commonwealth Games on Friday. That relaxation has come after the Sunshine Girls thrashed Uganda, 63-37, during...
