Published:Tuesday | March 28, 2017 | 12:00 AMShayne Fairman
This year's 107th ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Champ-ionships began with a real bang yesterday with the girls posting three record runs.In one event, the Class Two 100 metres hurdles, the record went twice.The first record of the day came in...
Published:Tuesday | March 28, 2017 | 9:37 PMRobert Bailey
Kingston College's Carey McLeod will have gold on his mind when he enters today's final of the Class One boys long jump on day two of the ISSA-GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships at the National Stadium.McLeod eased to a personal...
Shanette Allison of Holmwood Technical blazed a new trail with the second record of the 107th staging of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls Athletics Championships clocking a fast 13.30 seconds in heat two of the preliminary...
The Independent Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel will convene the preliminary hearings into the alleged anti-doping rules violations of Jamaican athletes Kaliese Spencer and Riker Hylton over the next two days. Spencer and her legal team...
Published:Monday | March 27, 2017 | 12:00 AMShayne Fairman
Though every year finds him leading a slightly different team, head coach Michael Clarke is expecting five-time consecutive champions Calabar High to go out and defend their ISSA-GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Championships (Champs) title.According to...
This is the week of the ISSA-GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Championships (Champs). It is not unusual in this corner of the globe, and more increasingly, elsewhere as well, for all non-related activity to be placed on hold to accommodate the news from...
Despite all the spicy ingredients that continue to flavour the run into ISSA-GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Championships 2017 (Champs), my prediction that Kingston College (KC) will win Boys' Champs at a canter remains intact. Admittedly, my...
Despite being a major doubt due to injury, Jaheel Hyde, the past World and Youth Olympic 110-metre hurdles champion, thinks Dejour Russell is heading for big things at the 2017 staging of Boys and Girls' Championships (Champs), should the 16-year-...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC):Jason Holder said he expects West Indies to bounce back from defeat now that they have a better idea of the Pakistan side.The lanky all-rounder felt that unfamiliarity with a number of Pakistani players, especially...
New St Jago boys track and field head coach, Rhansome Edwards, said it was a difficult task trying to pick up the pieces after the departure of Danny Hawthorne, who was coach at the school for 13 years.Edwards took over as head coach of the Monk...
AFTER months of intense preparations, the most anticipated high school track and field event, the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships gets under way today, starting at 1:00 p.m., with defending girls' champions Edwin Allen and...
NEIL HARRISON (KC)"The boys have been doing well and we have learnt from our mistakes from the past two years and we have done the corrective measurement to ensure that we do not make the same mistakes again. We are not surprised as the guys are...
Executives from FLOW, exclusive telecommunications partner for the ISSA-GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Championships (Champs) are once again revelling in the value the association brings to its brand from a consumer perspective.Head of retail...
Published:Sunday | March 26, 2017 | 5:41 PMLeroy Brown
Jamaica's Alicia Ashley, the former female World Boxing Council (WBC) Super Bantamweight champion, has been given approval to challenge the current title holder, Kenyan Fatuma Zarika, for the title, within 90 days. This news was relayed to The...
MELBOURNE, Australia (CMC):Lewis Hamilton's woes at the Australian Grand Prix continued yesterday when he finished second behind Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel in the Formula One season-opener at Albert Park.The 32-year-old Brit started on pole but...
LONDON, England (AP):Jermain Defoe was struggling to contain his emotions even before scoring on his return from England exile in a 2-0 World Cup-qualifying win over Lithuania.Although Joe Hart wore the captain's armband, Defoe was allowed to lead...
Floyd Quarrie is in his fourth year at the helm of the Immaculate Conception High School track and field Team and it was a very confident coach who spoke to The Gleaner last Thursday, minutes before a training session at the Stadium East Complex."We...
Like on the Boys' side, it will be two finals on day two of competition among the Girls' at the ISSA GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships on Wednesday, as it will be the discus throw for Class 1 while it will be the shot put for...
Published:Sunday | March 26, 2017 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
Kingston College (KC) will be hoping to break their drought when competition at the ISSA-GraceKennedy Boys and Girls Championships gets under way on Tuesday. The team with the most wins at these Championships, with 31, will be hoping to score their...
Published:Sunday | March 26, 2017 | 5:15 PMRaymond Graham
Over the years, Camperdown High has had fair results at the ISSA GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Championships, and the east Kingston-based school has produced some outstanding sprinters, including the likes of Sandra Kidd, Revoli Campbell, Andria...
Published:Sunday | March 26, 2017 | 5:46 PMMarc Stamp
Boys' Town's never-give-up spirit is guiding the team away from Red Stripe Premier League relegation. The Red Brigades won their fourth game in the last five with a 1-0 triumph against neighbouring Tivoli Gardens at the Edward Seaga Sports Complex...
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC):Captain Nikita Miller's 26th five-wicket haul in first-class cricket helped Jamaica Scorpions halt their losing skid with a convincing 87-run victory over Trinidad and Tobago Red Force inside three days yesterday.Set a...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC):A muted West Indies displayed little of the bluster that made them World champions, as they slumped to a disappointing six-wicket loss to Pakistan in the opening Twenty20 International of the four-match series yesterday.In...
Former Cornwall College and Calabar High School thrower Warren Barrett and expert throws coach Marlon Gayle will be watching the Boys and Girls' Champs Class 1 shot put extra keenly. Barrett and Gayle expect big putts from reigning champion Kyle...
On my way home at the end of the first day-night four-day regional game at Sabina Park last Sunday night, I felt really down, disappointed, and even embarrassed.Jamaica had lost the match scheduled for four days and nights in just under two days and...
