TRAVES SMIKLE walked away with the win in the discus at last Saturday’s JAAA All Comers meet at the National Stadium, but runner-up Kai Chang was the happiest thrower on the day. Chang scored his longest throw since he did knee surgery. Now, The...
AS BEFITS an athlete of vast experience, Stephenie Ann McPherson has the air of someone who has seen everything track and field has to offer. However, the five-time World Championships 400-metre finalist still has big goals and none of them is...
EVEN THOUGH he defended his World 200-metre title last year in Eugene, Oregon, Noah Lyles has a long way to go before he matches Usain Bolt’s achievements in the half-lap sprint. That’s because Bolt did far too much for anyone to catch him easily....
TRINIDAD AND Tobago’s 2013 World 400-metre hurdles champion Jehue Gordon has shrewd advice for the new generation of Caribbean track and field hopefuls. Gordon recommends that they focus on their dreams rather than financial gain. He rose from...
WHEN SAMANTHA Pryce lined up for the 4x800 metre relay at the 2022 Penn Relays, she was riding on a wave. Pryce, a Holmwood Technical senior, had gold medals from the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships and the Carifta Games...
The best performance at last year’s Penn Relays (Penns) by a United States team in the girls’ 4x400 metres came from the Bullis School of Maryland. Bullis return to Penns next week with fine teams in the 4x100m and the 4x400m, and with a coach who...
WHEN JAMAICA College (JC) takes off for the Penn Relays in Philadelphia next week, the school’s lynchpin will be the breakout high school athlete of the season, Malique Smith-Band. Coached by Neil Harrison, the smooth running sixth-former has...
The passing of St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) patriarch Eldemire Smith has hit the school community hard. Among those lamenting his death are former West Indies pacer Jerome Taylor and 1997 Girls’ Championships double winner Peta-Gaye...
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...
