Sprint Relay World Record for Jamaican High School Girls
A Jamaican high school girls sprint team ran a high school 4x100m relay world record today at the scaled-down 45th staging of the Gibson-McCook Relays in the Kingston. The crack…
For Thompson-Herah and Warholm, 2021 A season Like No Other
What a year it was for a flat sprinter and a hurdler, worlds apart! After a four-year roller coaster ride burdened with an Achilles tendon injury, frustration, doubt and tears,…
2021 Track & Field Season Was Probably the Best Ever
The recently concluded 2021 track season was one of the best I ever witnessed. It was probably the best if one were to consider the challenges faced the last two…
Elaine Thompson-Herah’s 10.54 is the Legit 100m World Record
As if to show the world that her epic performance at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (in 2021) was no fluke, Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah returned to the track for the Diamond…
Is STETHS the New Sprinters’ Paradise?
St. Elizabeth Technical High School’s (STETHS) made history at this year’s annual Jamaica Inter-Secondary School Sports Association (ISSA) Boys and Girls Championships, known as Champs. On 15 May, their boys…
Track and Field Resets Clock with World Records and More
After one long year of no Olympics, no New York Millrose Games, no Caribbean regional CARIFTA Games, no Jamaica Boys and Girls Championships that the world has come to know…
No Penn Relays, But Here’s The Plan
The University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) Division of Recreation and Intercollegiate Athletics has announced that the 2021 Penn Relays, originally scheduled for April 22 through 24, has been canceled for the…
Amid Ravaging Pandemic, What Will Tokyo 2021 Yield?
The pandemic has been a most prohibitive defining moment in many people’s lives. The world anxiously awaits a restart. As the world slowly and cautiously eyes a ‘soft’ reopening, the…
As The Track & Field World Turns to Kenya
Kip Keino Classic, Nairobi (May 7) • Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce posted the fastest 100m in the world this year, 10.67secs, to win her season opener at the World Athletics Continental…
Mixed Reaction in Jamaica to Sprinter’s Decision to Study Abroad
Kevona Davis (photo above), the Edwin Allen High School sprint sensation and, by virtue of her enormous talent, a Jamaica “national treasure” has opted to continue her education and track…