Photo Highlights: Jamaican Top Teams Hit Their Stride, Sizzled at Penn Relays 2019 in City of Brotherly Love
First held on April, 21 1895, the Penn Relays is not only the oldest, but also the largest track and field meet in the United States. Held annually at Franklin Field in Philadelphia during the last full week in April ever since, this elite athletic competition features over 100 different events and typically draws upwards […]
2019 Photo Highlights: Jamaica’s Endemic ‘Champs Athletics Fever’, Highly Contagious and Hard to Control
Popularly known in Jamaica as Champs, the Boys’ and Girls’ Championships—held annually and put on by the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA)—are the largest high school track and field event in the world. Given this, you know that it is a big deal not only because it involves track and field in Jamaica, but also […]
Jamaica’s FIFA Assistant Referees Chosen to Officiate at 2019 Women’s World Cup
Jamaicans Stephanie-Dale Yee Sing and Princess Brown, the country’s FIFA assistant referees, were selected to officiate in the final match between Mexico and Spain of the2018 Under-17 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Uruguay. The duo is the first Caribbean referees, male or female, to officiate in a FIFA World Cup final. Both of the women […]
Jamaican Soccer Player Makes Major Impact on University of Tennessee Women’s Team and NCCA Records
Jamaican Khadija Shaw has had a major impact on the women’s soccer program at the University of Tennessee every since she first arrived on campus in the fall of 2017. A senior forward from Spanish Town in Jamaica, Shaw has made 21 goals in 27 games, or 0.78 goals per game on average, which is […]
Jamaican Alia Atkinson Wins Gold Medal in Women’s 50-Meter Breaststroke at World Cup
Alia Atkinson, Jamaica’s Olympic swim champion, took the gold medal in the women’s 50-meter breaststroke competition at the 2018 FINA Swimming World Cup at Eindhoven in the Netherlands on September 30, 2018. The victory brought Atkinson’s total to two medals, as she earned a silver medal in the women’s 100-meter breaststroke a day before, coming […]
Jamaican Kyle Butler Signs Football Deal with Austrian Club
Kyle Butler of Jamaica has signed on under a short contract with the LASK Linz football club in the Austria Bundesliga. The club confirmed the arrangement, stating that Butler, 20, the half-brother of Bayer Leverkusen star Leon Bailey, signed at the LASK and immediately changed to FC Junior Upper Austria. Butler, who is the brother […]
Trudi Carter of Reggae Girlz Will Sign with Italian Women’s League Soccer Team
Jamaica’s Trudi Carter of the Reggae Girlz is ready to travel to Italy to become part of the AS Roma women’s soccer team for the 2018-2019 season. Carter, 23, scored two goals in the CONCACAF Caribbean Women’s World Cup qualifiers at Kingston’s National Stadium. Carter said she has not signed the contract with the recently […]
Jamaican Swimming Sensation Alia Atkinson Wins Third Gold Medal at CAC Games
Alia Atkinson of Jamaica won a third gold medal for herself and her country at the 23rd Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games in Columbia on July 22, 2018. She swam the women’s 50-meter breaststroke final in 30.19 seconds, defeating Melissa Rodriguez Villanueva of Mexico whose time was 31.20 seconds. Atkinson noted that the breaststroke […]
Jamaican American Signs with Top German Soccer Club
Jamaican American Zyen Jones, 17, of Atlanta United, has signed with the German football club Bundesliga Schalke 04. Jones experienced a successful trial period with the club and is expected to begin playing officially for the team when he turns 18 in August 2018. The club currently includes Americans Weston McKenna, Nick Taitague, and Haji […]
Jamaica’s Reggae Rollers To Compete at 2018 Commonwealth Games
Andrew Newell of Battersea, South London, will take the first Jamaican bowls team to compete in the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia. Newell was inspired to get the team officially recognized for competition by the 1988 entry of the Jamaican bobsled team to the Winter Olympics in Calgary. Newell and his teammate Mervyn Edwards will […]