When retired Holmwood Technical teacher and track coach Edward Hector was laid to rest in Kendal, Manchester late last month, he was remembered as good and kind. Among those present were 1995 ISSA Girls’ Championships gold medallist Tracey-Ann...
FIRST-TIME CARIFTA Games head coach Keilando Goburn is delighted with his team’s 78-medal performance at their recent Carifta Games in the Bahamas. However, Goburn says it was tough to get the athletes going after ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’...
WHEN DELANO Kennedy false-started in the final of the 400 metres at last year’s World Athletics Under-20 Championships, Jamaica wept. When he found himself under false-start scrutiny at the recent Carifta Trials, fans wondered if a worrying trend...
After an injury scare, St Elizabeth Technical High’s (STETHS) team leader Shamer Blake is back to full speed in time for this week’s ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Championships. Blake’s super 2023 season climaxed with a big Class One 110 and...
The ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) will be a blast. With 2022 World Under-20 runners-up Bouwahjgie Nkrumie, Serena Cole, Alexis James, and Kobe Lawrence leading the way, fans will certainly get moments that...
Patient progress and two turns of fortune have put Antonio Forbes within reach of his second ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championship gold medal in the 400 metres hurdles. When the action begins next on Tuesday, the slim Kingston...
Outgoing Calabar High School senior Kobe Lawrence is poised to do great things in the shot put. To hear 2015 World Championships bronze medallist O’Dayne Richards tell the tale, Lawrence could break the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics...
JAYDON HIBBERT, Carey McLeod and Wayne Pinnock could be world record holders in the future. That’s the view of 2016 Olympic triple jumper Clive Pullen who has helped to mentor the talented trio at the University of Arkansas. Pullen, an NCAA indoor...
Aside from double Commonwealth Games runner-up Olivia McKoy, Jamaica has a pretty bleak history in the javelin. However, Elvis Graham and Devon Spencer are leading a charge to change that. The pair showed there might be light at the end of the...
WHEN 2021 Olympic 200-metre finalist Rasheed Dwyer settles into his blocks for the last section of the men’s 100 at today’s John Wolmer Speed Fest inside the National Stadium, Dwyer will be continuing his quest for early speed. It’s a key element...
Last year, Jamaica College (JC) got a sterling silver double effort from Deandre Watkin at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs). The outgoing senior finished second in the Class One 200 and 400 metres with...
THE PERFORMANCES by Kingston College captain Bouwahjgie Nkrumie last weekend at the Carifta Trials point in one direction – an assault on the Class I 100-metre record at the upcoming ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships (...
JODYANN MITCHELL of Holmwood Technical has pulled the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships Class I 1500-metre record into view. In fact, her winning time at the recent Central Championships -- 4 minutes, 30.31 seconds (4:30....
ST GEORGE’S College scored 14 points at the 2022 Corporate Area Championships. However, steady work boosted that score to 79.5 and fifth place at the 2023 staging inside the National Stadium. The Corporate Area results are a boon to head coach...
There were times last year when Cedricka Williams was the best under-20 discus thrower in the world. However, an uncharacteristic crash at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Championships (Champs) blotted the copybook of the soft-spoken Holmwood...
It seems like an age has passed since Kishay Rowe won gold and silver in the 800 and 1500 metres at ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Championships (Champs) in 2019. Perhaps that’s why Rowe, a senior at Alphansus Davis High School, allowed herself...
St Catherine High are in position to do some damage at this year’s ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs). That’s the opinion of St Catherine’s head coach Marlon James after his team impressed in fifth place in the girls...
Last year’s Female Athlete of the Year, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, is phenomenal. However, it looks like Holland’s Femke Bol is about to challenge her. Her 2023 indoor performances indicate that she is just as fast and strong as McLaughlin-Levrone...
No one could blame you if you have picked Bouwahjgie Nkrumie, Deandre Daley, and Bryan Levell to dominate the Class One sprints at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs), which begin on March 28 at the National...
The recent Western Championship victories by St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) were emotional ones as the school was reeling from the death of long-serving coach Eldemire Smith. The bereavement has rested mostly heavily on school’s middle...
Last year, the marquee track event at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) was the girls’ Class One 100 metres. It featured Edwin Allen High star, Tina Clayton, coming back from her 2021 World Under-20 title, and...
Jamaica College (JC) and Edwin Allen High took top honours in the high school 4x400 metres races at last Saturday’s Gibson McCook Relays. However, World Under-20 400m finalist Delano Kennedy and Rickiann Russell caught the eye with brilliant...
From Kimar Farquharson in 2019 to J’Voughnn Blake last year, the winners of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Championships (Champs) Class One 800 metres have made the one minute 50 seconds barrier a thing of the past. Jamaica College (JC)...
The last time high jumpers Lushane Wilson and Christoff Bryan were in action at the National Stadium, Wilson cleared a personal best height of 2.26 metres with Bryan over at 2.23, his highest clearance in five years. When they march out to the high...
Hydel High School’s girls raced to within touching distance of the Gibson McCook Relays 4x400 metres relay record last year. However, Hydel’s coach, Corey Bennett, reckons that his 2023 team will have to do something special to retain the title...
