The 22nd staging of the Wesley Powell-Benjamin Track and Field meet is set for Saturday, December 13, at Excelsior High School. The launch was held on Wednesday inside the school’s auditorium with organisers confirming an 8:30 a.m. start. The...
THE 22ND staging of the Wesley Powell Benjamin Track and Field Meet is set for Saturday, December 13 at Excelsior High School. The launch was held yesterday inside the school’s auditorium, with organisers confirming an 8:30 a.m. start. The opening...
FORMER OLYMPIAN Sanjay Ayre was the latest Jamaican high-profile past athlete to step forward and assist residents in the western end of the island who suffered greatly from the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa. The former quarter-miler, who...
SCHOOLBOY FOOTBALL is set to resume next weekend after the disruption caused by Hurricane Melissa, with Manning Cup action returning in the Corporate Area on Friday and the daCosta Cup for rural schools kicking off the following day. While teams in...
UNDER the steady guidance of veteran coach Carline Graham-Powell, Holmwood Technical have stood tall as the most dominant force in high school netball, racking up multiple rural and all-island titles. And despite the disruption caused by Hurricane...
With Hurricane Melissa disrupting high schools across rural Jamaica – many still unable to resume full classes because of infrastructural damage – Glenmuir High in May Pen, Clarendon, has emerged as a rare bright spot. Located on Glenmuir Road in...
SEVERAL Caribbean athletes currently representing local schools in Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) competitions had their first taste of a hurricane when Category 5 Melissa swept across Jamaica recently. Four Caribbean athletes...
The Michael Dyke-coached Edwin Allen High girls are eager to reclaim their ISSA Girls’ Championships title after a surprise loss to Hydel High earlier this year but the school has had a rocky start to its preparations for the 2025-26 season. The 10...
NEW HEAD coach of the St Jago High School boys’ track and field programme, Carl Page, says he is enjoying his early days at the institution. A past student and former assistant coach with the school’s female programme, specialising in the throwing...
CENTRAL JAMAICA schoolboy football kingpins Garvey Maceo and Glenmuir High School, while hoping for better weather, are smiling quietly at a much-needed break for their ISSA daCosta Cup teams. Lester Hibbert, coach of Garvey Maceo, and Andre Peart...
THE RECENT death of student-athlete Taneisha Gayle of Edwin Allen High School has prompted head track and field coach Michael Dyke to call on the ministries of health, education, and sport to collaborate on creating mandatory medical forms for all...
It was a sad occasion for members of the Edwin Allen High School fraternity last Saturday as they paid their final respects to former student-athlete Taneisha Gayle, who was laid to rest in Mount Pleasant, Manchester. A member of the school’s...
Camperdown High School’s junior and senior netball teams are enjoying their best start in years in the ISSA urban schoolgirls competition, with both teams unbeaten after four matches each. The Wayne Stewart-coached squads have been dominating their...
THE LARGE turnout of fans at the Wembley Excellence Centre yesterday were treated to some exciting football despite the goalless draw that ensued between defending champions Garvey Maceo and former champions Clarendon College in their Zone 3 ISSA...
THREE CLARENDON powerhouses, Garvey Maceo, Glenmuir, and Clarendon College, will be in action today as the daCosta Cup round of 16 kicks off with Zone 3, dubbed the ‘Group of Death’. Defending champions Garvey Maceo will face Clarendon College in a...
KEMPS HILL High School became the final team to advance to the round of 16 in the ISSA daCosta Cup football competition after defeating Frome Technical 2-0 in their rescheduled Group 1 match at the Wembley Excellence Centre in Hayes, Clarendon,...
Dwight ‘Bigga’ Thomas, the agent for 2022 World Under-20 200 metres champion Brianna Lyston, says the 21-year-old athlete is now injury-free and ready to make her mark on the global stage. Thomas, a three-time Olympian and member of Jamaica’s gold...
IT WAS one-way traffic for home team Glenmuir High School in their round-of-32 Group 5 ISSA daCosta Cup match against St Mary High, as the Andre Peart-coached side romped to an emphatic 10-0 win to take control of the group. Glenmuir now sit on six...
JULIAN ROBINSON will be stepping into his first stint as head coach of Calabar High School’s track and field programme, taking over from Corey Bennett, whose three-year contract ended in August and was not renewed. Known for his exploits as a...
DEFENDING CHAMPIONS Garvey Maceo were off to a positive start in their opening game in Group 7 of the Round of 32 in the ISSA daCosta Cup football competition after a comfortable 3-0 home win over Old Harbour High School. In what was a lacklustre...
Teams from Clarendon have dominated rural schoolboy football for the past four seasons and two of the top contenders, defending daCosta Cup champions Garvey Maceo High and preseason favourites Glenmuir High, will be at home today as the round of 32...
IT WILL be a new environment for 18-year-old Shanoya Douglas when the upcoming track and field season gets under way, but the talented sprinter is confident the results will be just as good — or even better. Douglas, who represented Muschett High...
WHEN THE final set of playoff matches in Zone I of the daCosta Cup schoolboy football competition kicks off today, surprise team Kemps Hill will be eyeing a third straight win when they host Denbigh High at 3:30 p.m. After shocking unbeaten zone...
WHEN THE 2025-26 high school track and field season gets under way, there will be a major coaching shake-up in the west. Garth Smythe, who has led the Muschett High School programme since 2020, has decided to take on a new challenge as head coach...
WHEN the final set of play-off matches in Zone I of the daCosta Cup schoolboy football competition kicks off tomorrow, surprise team Kemps Hill High will be eyeing a third straight win. They will host Denbigh High at 3:30 p.m. After ambushing the...
