HAVING COMFORTABLY secured their safety for next season’s Jamaica Premier League (JPL) campaign, Racing United head coach Anthony Patrick is proud of the team’s performance in their debut season. Racing became the first promoted team to secure...
Rohan Robinson, head coach of the St George’s Slayers, said despite securing the National Basketball League (NBL) mid-season title, he was left heavily disappointed with his team’s performance on the court. The Slayers dismissed the Upper Room...
The Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) has welcomed the decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to increase the number of teams in women’s football for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics Games to 16 teams. In the landmark decision by the...
EXCELSIOR HIGH School extended their reign in the ISSA TIP Friendly Society Schoolgirls football competition, claiming their ninth straight title with the 1-0 defeat of Holmwood Technical High School in the final yesterday at Stadium East. Captain...
NATIONAL TACKLE Football Association (NTFA) executive director, Jerome Harriott, is tickled pink at the way an initiative surrounding the All-Jamaica Gridiron Bowl, set for this weekend, has started. The NTFA scheduled a weeklong series of...
WHEN EXCELSIOR High takes on Holmwood Technical today in the final of the ISSA TIP Friendly Society Schoolgirls Football Competition, the Eagles will be hoping to claim their ninth consecutive hold on the title. Excelsior and Holmwood will renew...
REGGAE BOYZ head coach expects a squad of approximately 50 players to take him through a busy summer with three major assignments in the coming months. Jamaica are scheduled to compete in the Unity Cup next month before returning to World Cup...
Having settled into his role as Reggae Boyz head coach, Steve McClaren said he is excited ahead of his managerial debut in the Concacaf Gold Cup set to begin in June. Jamaica have been drawn in Group C of the Gold Cup where they will face off...
The Youth Football League (YFL) has announced a new competition to their calendar alongside their new partnership with sprint icon’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce’s Pocket Rocket Foundation. At a press conference held yesterday at Funland Jamaica in Hope...
With Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago set to compete in the Unity Cup next month, both Caribbean national teams will view the competition as preparation for the Concacaf Gold Cup, set to begin in June. The Reggae Boyz and the Soca Warriors will...
WITH THE first staging of Grand Slam Track (GST) having taken place at the National Stadium over the weekend, several athletes who competed across the three days have expressed their appreciation for the competition’s cash prizes on offer. GST, a...
FOR THE third season in a row, Excelsior High and Holmwood Technical will contest the final of the ISSA TIP Friendly Society Schoolgirl Football competition, after contrasting wins in their semi-final fixtures yesterday. Eight-time defending...
MICHAEL JOHNSON, founder of Grand Slam Track (GST), said despite the less-than-expected number of fans at the National Stadium for the track league’s inaugural staging, he is confident the competition will grow with time. The GST series is a new...
HAVING PLACED third overall in the men’s short sprints race group standings at the Kingston Grand Slam Track (GST), Jamaican sprinter Oblique Seville said he will need to improve his performances come May in Miami. Seville finished with 12 points...
After three days of competition at the National Stadium, sprint hurdler Danielle Williams secured Jamaica’s only Grand Slam title across 12 race groups in the inaugural staging of Grand Slam Track (GST). Williams became the first Jamaican as well...
Fans at the National Stadium in Kingston were treated to a grand display of world-class athletics as four of the eight events on the track produced world-leading times to close off day one action of the inaugural Grand Slam Track (GST) meet....
JAMAICAN ACE discus thrower Fedrick Dacres said he is trialing a new approach to his training programme this season in a bid to remain healthy and in top shape following several injury concerns last year. “This year is just to stay healthy. That...
AFTER EARNING a point against Waterhouse on Monday in the Wray and Nephew-sponsored Jamaica Premier League (JPL), Chapelton Maroons head coach Vassell Reynolds is targeting survival for the club entrenched in a fierce relegation battle. With just...
KINGSTON COLLEGE’S (KC) principal Dave Myrie said this year’s hold on the Mortimer Geddes Trophy was perhaps the most important in the school’s history, even as he promises more successes for the years to come. KC won their fourth straight title at...
Having missed out on the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) last year due to injury, Kingston College’s (KC) Tahj-Marques White was a man on a mission this year when he took gold in the boys’ Class One 400m final on...
Having won back-to-back discus throw gold medals at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs), Jamaica College’s (JC) Joseph Salmon said making the switch from Clarendon College (CC) proved beneficial to his training...
Having won the Boys’ Class Two 100m title, as well as the bronze medal in the long jump at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships, Excelsior High’s Michael Graham credits his discipline throughout training as the reason...
BOYS’ CLASS Three 100 metres champion and record holder, Kai Kelly of Jamaica College (JC), said he was always confident he would walk away with the gold medal, despite the strong performances of medal contender Jevaney Findlay of St Jago High....
HAVING CLAIMED the first gold medal on schedule at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships yesterday, Kingston College’s (KC) Amani Phillips hopes that topping the Boys’ Class Two long jump can kick-start his school’s title...
DESPITE THE wonderful performances that have come over the course of the first two days of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships, there is still much talk surrounding another topic: false starts. It has been a common theme...
