Jamaica, Take Field Events, Distance Running Seriously
Games held in the Cayman Islands, April 3 to 5. Significant about Jamaica’s win though, was not that they hauled 72 medals (37 gold, 22 silver and 13 bronze), since…
Blueprint For The Success of Young Athletes
While the NCAAs may be the obvious route to track & field success for young Caribbean athletes, there are alternatives that can also lead to success in the sport. The…
Bermuda’s Aaron Evans Inspired by Usain Bolt
Twenty-year-old Aaron Evans has had a very active youth, playing soccer, cricket and basketball. The Devonshire, Bermuda native played basketball at camps run by his father and played on the…
Our 2009 Awards to Caribbean Athletes
The 2009 track and field season can be considered one for the ages. From the extraordinary and incomparable performances by Usain Bolt and his Jamaican teammates to the hurdling upset…
Essex County’s Coach Smart Has Caribbean Pipeline
American coach Michael Smart, the East Orange, New Jersey native and Essex County College (Essex) graduate has been coaching track and field at his alma mater for more than 24…
Natasha Hastings: Diva on The Track
With a personal best of 22.61 secs for the 200m and 49.84 for the 400m, Natasha Hastings is ready to accomplish more, much more. The 23-year-old New Yorker by birth,…
Bolt’s Quest to Become a Legend
For the past 18 months, the 23-yr-old Jamaican Usain Bolt has dominated track & field with his mind-boggling speed and charm on and off the track. The sprinting sensation, who…
Sanya Richards: Gold Medal vs. Gold Bar
The 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics begins in less than a week and one cannot help but wonder about Jamaican-born American Sanya Richards’s chance of copping that individual 400m…
A Peek into Shelly-Ann’s World
Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser, the 2008 Olympic 100m gold medalist has no interest in being treated like a star. On the contrary , she shuns the limelight and doesn’t have a…
Jamaica’s Kimberly Williams Takes NCAA Jump Double
Jamaican Kimberly Williams, a Florida State sophomore and two-time All American, continued her winning ways yesterday by capturing 1st place in the triple jump final with a leap of 14.38m…