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…
Edwin Allen’s Super Relay Team Strikes Again
Jamaica’s Edwin Allen High School’s Class Two sprint relay quartet of Serena Cole, Tina Clayton, Brandy Hall, and Tia Clayton yesterday ran the fastest time on Jamaican soil by any…
Should Asafa Powell, Other Athletes Get A Statue?
Regarding the Asafa Powell statue controversy, even some ardent fans of track and field disagree with his selection because: what qualifies one for statue consideration? I don’t think that point…
Americans Set 800m Records at Millrose Games
Donavan Brazier of the USA set a national indoor record for the 800m, and his female compatriot, Ajeé Wilson, did the same, setting a meet record in the process at…
Kemoy Campbell Returns To Millrose As A Starter
Jamaica’s retired distance runner Kemoy Campbell returned to the 2020 Millrose Games at The Armory in New York yesterday, February 8, not to compete but to operate the starter’s gun…