FORMER KINGSTON College jumper Jaydon Hibbert was on fire in Baton Rouge yesterday on the final day of competion of the South East Conference Division One Collegiate Track and Field Championships, producing a world-leading mark of 17.87 metres to...
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND: HYDEL HIGH School’s Alana Reid was the star at yesterday’s Puma East Coast International Showcase in Landover, Maryland. The world number-one junior over 100 metres stormed to 11.01 seconds to win the event, running her...
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania: HYDEL HIGH School’s girls, competing in front of a large crowd at the 127th staging of the Penn Relays here, gave Jamaican fans much to celebrate after victories in the 4x100 and 4x400 metres saw them leave the Carnival...
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania: ON FRIDAY’S second day of competition at the 127th staging of the Penn Relays inside the Franklin Field Stadium, Rhodes Hall High School’s Aaliyah Willary was special. One day before her 15th birthday, and competing in...
WHILE MANY fans at this week’s Penn Relays in Philadelphia, which starts on Thursday, will be focused on relays, Jamaicans should also pay attention to the field where athletes hailing from the island should enjoy good results. Calabar High School’...
WHEN DELANO Todd crossed the finish line in second place for silver in the boys’ under-17 800 metres to pick up a silver medal at the recently held Carifta Games in The Bahamas, it marked not one, but two historic feats for the 16-year-old...
AS USUAL, this year’s staging of the Penn Relays, scheduled to take place inside the Franklinfield Stadium, Philadelphia, from April 27-29, will have its class of inductees to the Penn Relays Wall of Fame. Former St Jago High sprinter, Yohan Blake...
PRINCIPAL OF Edwin Allen High school, Jermaine Harris, is still very positive despite his team’s inability to retain their girls’ title at the recent ISSA Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs), losing out by two points to first-time...
WORLD CHAMPIONSHPS 200-metre champion, Shericka Jackson, continued her season’s preparation by winning the women’s 400 metres at the GC Foster Classics yesterday in a season’s best 52.05 seconds. Drawn in lane six, Jackson covered her rivals in...
WITH JUST over six weeks to go before the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs), high-school athletes turned up the heat at yesterday’s seventh staging of the SW Isaac Track and Field Invitational inside the National...
HEAD COACH of Edwin Allen High school’s girls, Michael Dyke, is happy with his team’s performance at yesterday’s Milo Western Relays at GC Foster. Those performances were led by his Class One’s record-breaking 4x400-metre team. The quartet of Toni...
BOUWAHJGIE NKRUMIE and Serena Cole turned on the speed at the Youngster Goldsmith track meet at the National Stadium yesterday. Kingston College’s (KC’s)captain, Nkrumie, running in the Boys’ Class One 100 metres, showed he is in good shape after...
RANGY CLASS-ONE Hydel High School athlete Oneika McAnuff showed she was in ominous form yesterday at the STETHS Invitational meet when she won the 400 metres in a nippy 54.31 seconds before returning to top the 100 in 11.91. The Ferry-based...
ONE OF the most popular and longest-running relay meets on the local track and field calendar is the Gibson-McCook Relays. And this year’s staging, set for Saturday February 25, will be a very special one, as the meet which began in 1973, will be...
SINCE THE inception of the prestigious Penn Relays in 1964 where Kingston College became Jamaica’s first high school to participate, the island’s secondary education institutions have made their presence felt with dominant performances. The meet...
EDWIN ALLEN’s strength over the years has largely come from middle-distance events and yesterday, the Michael Dyke-coached team, which has won eight female titles at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs), gave a...
EDWIN ALLEN High School’s Serena Cole got her 2023 athletics season off to a fine start, claiming a sprint and long-jump double at yesterday’s staging of the 29th Purewater JC/R. Danny Williams Meet at the Ashenheim Stadium, Jamaica College (JC)....
INTER-SECONDARY SCHOOLS Sports Association (ISSA) president, Keith Wellington, looking back at the end of not just a successful season, but also at the end of schoolgirls’ netball on Friday, is a happy man. Wellington’s pleasure comes from seeing a...
COACHES OF Gaynstead and St Catherine High schools, Dalton Hinds and Phylis Thompson, respectively, are oozing with confidence after their teams scored close victories in the semi-finals of the Urban ISSA Under-19 Schoolgirl Netball competition on...
EDWIN ALLEN High School’s football programme has significantly improved over the past two seasons, and the school’s administration has pinpointed a partnership with the Past Edwin Allen Ballaz Association (PEABA) as the reason for that. The...
CAMPERDOWN HIGH School football coach Donovan Lofters has added his voice to those who have said the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) has mishandled an issue involving allegations of the use of ineligible players in this year’s...
UNDOUBTEDLY, EDWIN Allen High School’s girls have been the most dominant on the track and in the field for the past decade, winning the blue-riband ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs) for the past nine years,...
TWO-HUNDRED-metre World Champion, Shericka Jackson, and World Championships 400-metre finalist, Christopher Taylor, will lead 37 athletes – 16 women and 21 men – to the fifth North American, Central American and Caribbean (NACAC) Senior...
RANKED AT 31st in the high jump going into the World Athletics Under-20 Championships, Brandon Pottinger was not favoured to be among the medals. Pottinger, son of former Kingston College sprinter Marlon Pottinger, had a season’s best of 2.14...
ONE OF the events which will attract a lot of attention at this week’s National Senior Championships is the men’s 110-metre hurdles, as the country’s two most successful athletes at the international level in the event, Hansle Parchment and Omar...
