Published:Wednesday | May 11, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Maybe when the Olympics, the NBA play-offs, football's European Championships and the Grand Slam of tennis are over, there will be a bigger story than Leicester City's phenomenal win in the English Premier League (EPL).Until then, Leicester City...
The early-season form of Omar McLeod has one of his former high-school coaches thinking about the world record.Raymond Graham, who coached McLeod in 2013 at Kingston College (KC), says McLeod's early speed will help chase Aries Merritt's four-year-...
Undefeated junior 400-metre hurdler Shannon Kalawan is taking her breakthrough season one day at a time, according to Edwin Allen Comprehensive High hurdles coach Kirk Douglas.In the weeks to come, Douglas will be helping Kalawan to improve, with...
Published:Wednesday | March 30, 2016 | 11:54 AMHubert Lawrence
The Carifta Games are still as right for the young track and field athletes of the region as they were first staged in 1972. As seen last weekend, Carifta still gives the future stars of Caribbean track and field their first experience of...
Published:Saturday | March 26, 2016 | 3:58 PMHubert Lawrence
It's no surprise that Calabar High and Edwin Allen High held on to their team titles at the recently held ISSA-GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Championships. Both schools used great depth as a launch pad to victory at the March 15 to 19 championships....
Published:Wednesday | March 16, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Absorbing match-ups are sprinkled liberally across the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships this week. Yet, despite the collective allure, one has captured the nation's imagination.That...
When the 2016 Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA)/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships get under way tomorrow at 1 p.m. with the preliminary round of the boys' Class One long jump, O'Brien Wasome of Jamaica College (JC...
Published:Saturday | March 12, 2016 | 4:46 PMHubert Lawrence
Last year's winners Calabar High School and Edwin Allen High School will retain their team titles at this week's ISSA-GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Championships. That's the conclusion contained in the 2016 Champs Preview magazine. Published on...
Ashley Williams is fast and confident. By the time the five-day ISSA-GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Championships end on March 19, her name could be on everybody's lips.Recently, the outgoing Holmwood Technical High School senior won a fine Class One...
Commonwealth Youth Games champion, Junelle Bromfield, will run her first 400-metre hurdles race of the 2016 season at this weekend's Carifta trials.Bromfield has performed well in the 400 and 800 metres, but hasn't yet contested a hurdles race. The...
Published:Sunday | February 28, 2016 | 3:35 PMHubert Lawrence
Courtesy of a fast and determined anchor leg by Javauney James, St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) won the most exciting race in a rainy 40th staging of the Gibson McCook Relays.James rallied to pull STETHS ahead of St Jago High School in...
Published:Saturday | February 27, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
The Inter-secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA), governing body of high school sports, is reporting increased demand for National Stadium grandstand tickets from fans of the ISSA-GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Championships. Colleen Montague,...
Published:Wednesday | February 24, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
All season, track and field fans have had a dilemma. With the JAAA schedule packed on every Saturday from the start of the year, hard choices have been made. If you saw the slip-surge 10.44-second run by Calabar High School's Christopher Taylor at...
Published:Saturday | February 20, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
If you're planning to attend ISSA-GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Championships at the National Stadium from March 15 to 19, you'll need a ticket.Colleen Montague, the head of ISSA's Champs planning committee, told Champs Watch this week how to...
Published:Wednesday | February 17, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
The victory by the young West Indians in last week's Under-19 World Cup is brilliant news. It offers hope that the West Indies has the gumption to organise to win important tournaments in world cricket. It could be a launching pad to a new era of...
Published:Tuesday | February 16, 2016 | 11:56 AMHubert Lawrence
Former national champion, Oshane Bailey, is looking forward to an injury-free season and a bid for a place in the Jamaican Olympic team.Speaking just after a controlled 100-metre win at the Western Relays in Montego Bay on Saturday, Bailey was...
Published:Thursday | February 11, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
When Rasheed Dwyer finished sixth in the 200 metres at last year's National Senior Championships, that ended his chance to run an individual event at the World Champion-ships in Beijing, China. Despite that, Dwyer won't be running the 100 metres at...
Published:Tuesday | February 9, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
British sprinter Zharnel Hughes has come a long way since his first international experience at the 2010 Carifta Games.Fresh from a 2015 campaign highlighted by a fifth-place finish in the 200 metres at the World Championships, Hughes has his eyes...
Published:Saturday | February 6, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
The absence of Eastern Championships from the 2016 high school athletics calendar is cause for concern. It comes at a time when teams from that end of the island are on the rise. For teams like Buff Bay High and St Mary High, Eastern Champs might...
Published:Saturday | January 30, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Last year, it seemed certain that mercurial Javauney James of Saint Elizabeth Technical High School would make a run at the Class Two 800 metres record during the course of the ISSA-GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Championships. That mark - 1 minute 52...
Published:Tuesday | January 26, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Injury may have ruined his 2015 season but that hasn’t stopped Jason Livermore from thinking big. Axed by a leg ailment during last year’s National Championship 100 metre final, the 27 year-old Livermore is already looking forward to...
Published:Sunday | January 24, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
Warren Blake, the president of the Jamaica Athletic Administrative Association (JAAA), says he intends to offer himself for a second term.Speaking in an exclusive interview, Dr Blake told The Gleaner his time in office had been challenging and...
Published:Saturday | January 23, 2016 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence
With Michael O'Hara and Shauna Helps gone a year early from Class One, the search for speed might settle in Class Two when ISSA-GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Championships arrives in March. That's where Calabar's potent sprinters dominated last year...
Published:Sunday | January 17, 2016 | 4:36 PMHubert Lawrence
Pan-American Games champion Fedrick Dacres dominated the discus at the Charlie Fuller Field Events Memorial on Saturday.However, it was a busy Warren Barrett Jr who had the biggest day on the expansive Manchester High School campus. Barrett...
Published:Monday | January 11, 2016 | 4:09 PMHubert Lawrence
In the future, overseas coaches may be in Jamaica to lift 800-metre running in the island. That's the renewed promise from Warren Blake, president of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA). The intention arose in an interview early...
