MAY 5—After challenging courses in his last two races, Reuben Stoby extended his winning streak during Saturday's Blenheim Trust 5K Series race in Paraquita Bay, dubbed the Paraquita Beast.
APRIL 29—Facing the closure of the track at the A. O. Shirley Recreation Grounds for repairs in mid June, the BVI Athletics Association will have its final three home meets of the season, staring with the Premier Dental Youth Championships on May 8-9.
APRIL 28—With most regular runners either running as individuals or were on teams tackling the grueling 50km Tortola Torture on Saturday, Ruben Stoby led a small band of runners in the second Dive BVI 10K Series race—on the toughest segment of the course for the upcoming Virgin Gorda Half Marathon.
APRIL 27—Sprinter Taylor Hill and twin sisters Trevia and Tynelle Gumbs established British Virgin Islands National Jr. Track and Field Records during respective competitions in Texas and California over the weekend.
APRIL 26—Learning from previous 50km races, St. Croix's Bridget Klein laid off the hot early pace set by the Virgin Gorda duo of Curwin Andrews and Kathleen Brownsdon, before making her move that destroyed the field to win the inaugural Tortola Torture—a punishing 50km hilly race covering more than half of the island—on Saturday.
APRIL 22—With early morning rains shrinking the numbers to just 35 participants, Saturday's Blenheim Trust 5K Series tour stop on Beef Island saw the men literally pursuing the women. The women had a five minutes start, giving the men a good reason to chase to see who could get to the line first.
APRIL 14—Rueben Stoby extended his winning streak to Saturday's Dive BVI 10K Series race—the first of two races on different segments of the Virgin Gorda Half Marathon course—as a means of familiarizing runners for the May 9 race, for which 51 have already pre registered.
BIRDROCK, St. Kitts, APRIL 7—Anchor leg Jonel Lacey capped off her Carifta Games career in fine fashion on Monday night, to end the 44th edition of the regional premier Jr. Championships at the Kim Collins Stadium in Bird Rock, St. Kitts and Nevis, helping the BVI to snatch the U20 Girls 4x400m Relay silver medal from the Bahamas and Trinidad and Tobago, ending the competition with two silver and one bronze medal.
BIRDROCK, St. Kitts, APRIL 6—Trevia Gumbs who missed the podium last year, won the BVI's first medal at the 44th Carifta Games on Sunday morning in the Silver Jubilee Stadium—renamed in honor of St. Kitts and Nevis' sprint icon Kim Collins—while Jonel Lacey picked up bronze in the 400m Intermediate Hurdles during the afternoon session.
BIRDROCK, St. Kitts. APRIL 5 –L'Tisha "Bella" Fahie and Taylor Hill's personal bests 100m performances highlighted the first full day of action in the 44th Carifta Games with a historical flair in the twin island federation of St. Kitts-Nevis.
MARCH 31—The British Virgin Islands Athletics Association on Tuesday morning announced a squad of 13—including 11 females—for the 44th annual Carifta Games, which will be held at Silver Jubilee Stadium in twin the islands federation of St, Kitts-Nevis—April 3-6.
MARCH 30—Fresh off winning the Dive BVI 5K Series on the outer island of Virgin Gorda a week earlier with a course, Reuben Stoby made the field of 54 know his intentions from the first step as he sprinted away from the pack, in Saturday's Blenheim Trust 5K tour stop in Carrot Bay.
MARCH 29—After ending a 21-year title drought last year, Lettsome, House I, showed that it was no fluke by repeating as Elmore Stoutt High School Inter-house champions for the first time since 1978 and 1979 in the middle of their only 3-peat. It was their seventh overall title in the 44-year history of the competition.
MARCH 26—Reuben Stoby improved his own course record to bring the curtains down on the Dive BVI 5K Series Color Run on Saturday in Virgin Gorda, that attracted 56 participants and raised $378 for the BVI Cancer Society.
MARCH 23—It was a busy weekend of competition for British Virgin Islands athletes, with meets in Florida, North Carolina, Texas, Arizona and Puerto Rico. And the National Record tear that began on Jan 23 continued for a ninth successive week, unlike any other season in BVI Athletics Association's 44-year history.
MARCH 16—Kyron McMaster capped off four double doubles with a 200m personal best on Saturday evening, highlighting the 2-day Premier Dental National Jr. Championships, held at the A. O. Shirley Recreation Grounds.
MARCH 16—Spirited battles characterized the 2015 Inter Primary Schools Athletics Championships that returned to its old format but only with A and B Divisions.
MARCH 10—After just over a year away, Ruben Stoby returned to the territory then showed his fitness level by winning Saturday's Dive BVI 5K Series race on Virgin Gorda, becoming the third winner in as many races—this time by smashing the course record.
MARCH 9—British Virgin Islands native and Central Arizona College sophomore Eldred Henry, won the 2015 National Jr. College Athletics Association Indoor Championships Shot Put crown on Friday night, then finished second in the 35-pounds Weight Throw on Saturday, earning All America honors in both events.
MARCH 8—Neither St. Kitts-Nevis or the British Virgin Islands are known regionally for hurdling. That's about to change.
MARCH 5—With the twin island federation of St. Kitts and Nevis hosting the 44th Carifta Games in less than a month, its hurdlers are heading to territory for a final tune up during Friday's BVI Athletics Association Development Series meet, which comes ahead of next weekend's Premier Dental National Jr. Championships.
MARCH 4—Showing her best form since her days at Illinois, sprinter Ashley Kelly, posted the second fastest 200 and 400m indoor times by a BVI female athlete, competing in the Boston Last Chance meet at Boston University on Saturday.
FEBRUARY 23—Tarique "Tweety" Moses and Tallulah Kinkead were the respective men's and women's division winners during Saturday's kickoff off of the 2015 Blenheim Trust 5K Series.
FEBRUARY 23—The National Records tear continues. British Virgin Islands strongman Eldred Henry—with one mammoth heave on Saturday—demolished three records, at the Glendale Community College Invitational in Glendale, Arizona.
FEBRUARY 16—Tarika "Tinker Bell" Moses made her long awaited 800m debut in grand style on Friday at the David Hemery Valentine Invitational in Boston, Mass., and established a British Virgin Islands National Indoor Record in the process.
FEBRUARY 9—South paw Kevin Vanterpool and Heptathlete Arianna Hayde, fired the Javelin to huge personal bests, climbing to #3 and #2 respectively on the territory's All Time Men and Women's Lists, during Friday evening's fourth BVI Athletics Association Development Series meet, held at the A. O. Shirley Recreation Grounds
FEBRUARY 9—Tortola's Julius Farley and Rosmond Johnson won Saturday's second leg of the Dive BVI 5K Series on Virgin Gorda, a race that attracted 55 participants.
FEBRUARY 3—Competing against two 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships 60m finalist in what turned out to be the fastest race in the world so far this season, sprinter Taylor Hill—two days shy of her 19th birthday—used a personal best to become the fourth British Virgin Islands female athlete to run under 7.60 seconds this season.
JANUARY 26—In an unparalleled weekend, five of the British Virgin Islands leading athletes earned victories in their respective events across the United States, with three improving on their own National Records.
JANUARY 20—When the Dive BVI 5K Series kicked off the British Virgin Islands 2015 road racing season in Virgin Gorda on Saturday, defending women's champion Kathleen Brownsdon found herself in an unusual place—being challenged.