Members of the St. Jago basketball team pose after being honoured by their school at a luncheon held at Arians Restaurant, Twickenham Park, St. Catherine, on Thursday. - photo by Anthony FosterST. JAGO High School recognised the achievement of its basketballers by honouring them at a luncheon held at Arians Restaurant, Twickenham Park, last week.
The boys from the Monk Street school defeated Wolmer's 55-54 on February 12 to lift the Inter-Secondary School Association (ISSA)/KFC Under-19 Southern Conference basketball title for the first time.
They won the best-of-three finals 2-0 after beating Wolmer's at Heroes Circle days before.
All the players, manager/adviser Alrick Moodie, coach Kevin Vassell, who the school's principal Keith Noel described as a rookie, and the head of the physical education department, Marlene Hawthorne, received trophies.
Noel lauded the players for their victory."The basketball programme is one of the school's biggest successes of the past 15 years," he said. "I leave St. Jago with this memory, the only memory that can challenge this one is the 4x100m victory at the Penn Relays, but it doesn't surpass this one," he said.
Noel also spoke of how the programme started and that the players had to share a court with volleyball and netball.
He also said he went to Wolmer's two years ago and when he saw their facilities, he wondered when, if ever, St. Jago would beat Wolmer's.
