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• KC celebrate anniversary with Champs title defence• Hydel upset the Edwin Allen applecart

Published:Sunday | March 30, 2025 | 12:14 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer
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Kingston College athletes sit on the National Stadium track to celebrate winning the Mortimer Geddes Trophy yesterday.
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Kingston College athletes sit on the National Stadium track to celebrate winning the Mortimer Geddes Trophy yesterday.
Kingston College’s Marcinho Rose spreads his arms in celebration of winning the boys’ 4x400-metres relay, the final event of the ISSA GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships at the National Stadium last night.
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Kingston College’s Marcinho Rose spreads his arms in celebration of winning the boys’ 4x400-metres relay, the final event of the ISSA GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships at the National Stadium last night.
Hydel athletes raise the Champs trophy aloft in celebration of their win inside the National Stadium yesterday.
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Hydel athletes raise the Champs trophy aloft in celebration of their win inside the National Stadium yesterday.
Hydel High School’s Jody-Ann Daley comes through the tape in the final event of the ISSA GraceKennedy Boys and Girls Athletics Championships to wild celebrations inside the National Stadium last night.
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Hydel High School’s Jody-Ann Daley comes through the tape in the final event of the ISSA GraceKennedy Boys and Girls Athletics Championships to wild celebrations inside the National Stadium last night.
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KINGSTON COLLEGE (KC) enjoyed their fairytale ending to the schoolboy track and field season, capping off their centenary celebrations with a Mortimer Geddes Trophy.

Joining KC in celebration will be Hydel High School, who upset the applecart for the second time in three years, to capture the ISSA GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships title ahead of favourites, Edwin Allen.

Hydel, the 2023, girls’ champions, took advantage of several mishaps from defending champions, Edwin Allen, to notch 277 points to Edwin Allen’s 266, while Holmwood were third on 230.5. St Jago, 149, and Immaculate, 100, closed out the top five.

The 11-point win meant that had one or two events gone differently, the title could have gone in a different direction, but there was no drama for the boys.

KC, with 40 of 42 events scored at press time, were dominant winners, logging 266 points, well clear of Calabar on 214.25, and Jamaica College on 196.

St Jago were fourth on 129 and Excelsior, fifth with 67 points.

Hydel’s victory was led by Class One athlete Jody-Ann Daley, who lodged a big 18 points into her team’s account, upsetting the favourite, Sabrina Dockery of Lacovia High in the 200 metres, after winning the 100-metre hurdles in a Champs record 13.40 seconds earlier in the day.

In the hurdles, Daley got the better of Holmwood Technical’s Kiara Meikle, who clocked 13. 51, with third going to Edwin Allen’s Santae Wilson in 13.74.

But later, Daley, brimming with confidence, turned back the previously unbeaten Dockery. She showed good top-end speed to go by Dockery in the final 20 metres to win in 23.53. Dockery stopped the clock in 23.63 for second, with third going to Shemonique Hazle of Hydel in 24.01.

For KC, a record-breaking performance in the boys’ Class Two triple jump to add to his opening-day long jump win, Adami Phillips proved one of the reasons for KC’s dominance.

There was another Champs record to fall yesterday as well.

Calabar’s Kamari Kennedy, with a throw of 61.46 metres, broke the boys’ Class Two discus record. Javontae Smith of Munro was second with 56.01, while third went to Adrian Daley of St Catherine with 52.84.