Published:Wednesday | December 2, 2015 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
DEFENDING rural Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) junior and senior netball champions, Denbigh High and Holmwood Technical, stayed on course to defend their titles with semi-final wins at Clarendon Park yesterday.Among the juniors,...
Published:Monday | November 30, 2015 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
A new champion will be crowned in this year's urban area ISSA senior netball competition, as last year's winners, The Queen's School, were surprised by St Hugh's High, as the Roy Pryce-coached team squeezed out a thrilling one-goal win - 47-46 - in...
Published:Sunday | November 29, 2015 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
MICO University College 'A' topped the senior Intercollegiate netball competition after outlasting UWI 'A' 52-50 in an exciting and pulsating final at G.C. Foster College on Saturday, to regain the title they had won in 2013.Victory kept the...
Published:Thursday | November 26, 2015 | 5:27 PMRaymond Graham
DEFENDING RURAL area Inter-secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) netball champions Holmwood Technical and Denbigh High scored impressive wins in quarter-final action on Wednesday at Manchester High School.Senior champions Holmwood scored the...
Published:Wednesday | November 25, 2015 | 3:29 PMRaymond Graham
Several of the country's top senior netballers will be in action at the University of the West Indies (UWI) netball court as the top four collegiate teams, The Mico University College, UWI, G.C. Foster College and University of Technology (UTech),...
Published:Tuesday | November 24, 2015 | 11:49 AMRaymond Graham
Camperdown High School's senior team continued its impressive form this season in the urban area Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) competition as they defeated last season's beaten finalist, St Hugh's High, 40-37 in a rescheduled top...
Published:Tuesday | November 24, 2015 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
The final set of matches in the second round of the rural area Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) netball competition came to an end on Friday, with defending champions of the respective junior and...
Published:Sunday | November 15, 2015 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
PRESEASON favourites Mico A had to dig deep at home on Saturday to deny UWI A in their top-of-the-table clash in the preliminary round of the Intercollegiate senior netball competition as Mico came away with a close 45-42 win over their opponents....
Published:Saturday | November 14, 2015 | 2:35 PMRaymond Graham
DESPITE losing most of the players who won the rural ISSA and all-island netball titles a year ago, Holmwood Technical sent a strong message to their rivals with an impressive 62-13 win over Yallahs High in second-round action on Thursday at The...
Published:Thursday | November 12, 2015 | 1:37 PMRaymond Graham
TODAY'S set of matches in the second round of the Inter- Secondary School Sports Association (ISSA) Urban Area schoolgirl netball competition will be the most important as four unbeaten senior teams will battle each other as they seek semi-final...
Published:Sunday | November 8, 2015 | 5:32 PMRaymond Graham
IT was another Kirk Brown show yesterday in the Burger King Portmore 5K and 10K - a stop on the Burger King Grand Prix Road series - as the 27-year-old made it three wins in a row by capturing the Men's 10K event in 31 minutes 41 seconds.G.C. Foster...
Published:Tuesday | November 3, 2015 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
Following two months of preliminary round action in the urban area ISSA netball competition, defending junior and senior champions, The Queen's School, are on course to retain both titles when second round action gets underway tomorrow at the Leila Robinson Courts...
Published:Sunday | November 1, 2015 | 8:30 PMRaymond Graham
LENFORD Adams and Samantha James ruled supreme, capturing the respective male and female titles at yesterday's 28th staging of the Hugo Chambers Memorial 5K Road Race, which started at the United States Embassy and ended at Jamaica College (JC)....
Published:Sunday | October 11, 2015 | 6:17 PMRaymond Graham
MICO University College's senior netball team, with natio-nal senior players Jhaniele Fowler Reid and Vangelee Williams in their line-up, sent an early message to their rivals after topping the Intercollegiate Netball Rally on Saturday.In the final...
Published:Saturday | September 19, 2015 | 1:58 PMRaymond Graham
Florida State University (FSU) has boosted its track and field programme with a lot of Jamaican ammunition for the upcoming season.One of the Seminoles' chief recruit is former Wolmer's Girls and national junior sprinter Shauna Helps who will forego...
Published:Tuesday | September 8, 2015 | 12:20 PMRaymond Graham
NEW champions were crowned on Monday night following the seventh staging of the Jamaica High School Alumni Football Competition at the Lauderdale Sports Complex in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, as St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) turned back...
Published:Wednesday | August 19, 2015 | 6:20 PMRaymond Graham
How realistic are the chances of the six Jamaica representatives participating in non-traditional events medalling at the World Championships?Men's discus throwers Jason Morgan, Federick Dacres, and Chad Wright make up half the list, while...
Published:Monday | August 17, 2015 | 4:55 PMRaymond Graham
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will not defend her 200 metres title in Beijing. However, things will not change for Jamaica as Fraser-Pryce's training partner, Elaine Thompson, looks set to make a successful World Championships in Athletics debut and keep...
Published:Sunday | August 16, 2015 | 5:15 PMRaymond Graham
ONE thing guaranteed in Beijing at the World Championships is that Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will win the women's 100 metres title and give herself title number three after winning in Berlin in 2009 and in 2013 in Moscow.The 'Pocket Rocket'...
Published:Sunday | August 16, 2015 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
THERE has never been a one-two-three-four sweep at the World Championships.Come next week, all that could change as the United States look set to dominate the women's 100 metres hurdles, where Jamaica's champion Danielle Williams will be the country...
Published:Saturday | August 15, 2015 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
JAMAICA is yet to win a medal in the men's 110 metres hurdles at the IAAF World Championships, but history is on the horizon.Two athletes, Omar McLeod and Hansle Parchment, with strong medal prospects in the event will represent the island at the...
Published:Saturday | August 15, 2015 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
The women's 400 metres in Beijing is shaping up to be a two-way battle between Shaunae Miller of The Bahamas and American Allyson Felix in the event.Both athletes are now ranked one and two, respectively, going into the championships. The Bahamian...
Published:Friday | August 14, 2015 | 3:28 PMRaymond Graham
BOTH LaShawn Merritt of the United States and Grenada's Kirani James have been dominating the men's 400 metres for the past three years but Beijing 2015 could see a changing of the guard as South Africa's Wayde Van Niekerk is a strong contender and...
Published:Friday | August 14, 2015 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
JAMAICA'S Kaliese Spencer, one of the most dominant female athletes in the 400-metre hurdles at Diamond League meets over the past three years, appears set to make that big step up to World Championships glory.While her Diamond League form has been...
Published:Sunday | August 9, 2015 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
JAMAICA were in record mood at the NACAC Senior Championships in San Jose, Costa Rica, yesterday, capturing two gold and one bronze medal.Rasheed Dwyer took the men's 200 metres, and the men's 4x100 metres relay quartet of Mario Forsythe, Jason...
