MAY 22—Three successive meets, beginning with the BVI Youth Championships Friday—which doubles as World Athletics Day—will lead to the close of the 2013 domestic track and field season.
MAY 21—James Carr was engaged in a spirited battled with Jacques Roux after they broke from the field, before he went on to demolish Maxford Pipe’s course record established during last year’s inaugural event, to win the 2nd Dive BVI Virgin Gorda Half Marathon on Saturday.
MAY 19—Khari “KJ” Herbert won the 400m at Saturday’s 37th Golden South Classic in Orlando, Florida, while Kyron McMaster was fourth with a time that improved his National Scholastic Record in the event, leading four athletes to career best performances.
MAY 14—It really isn’t over till its over. Midway through Saturday’s Blenheim Trust 5K Series in Paraquita Bay, on the famed course known as “The Beast”—an uphill climb less than 800m to go—series leader James Carr had resigned himself to thinking there’s no way he could win.
MAY 13—Portland State Vikings Sr. Dominique Maloney closed out her collegiate career by achieving another goal during the 2013 Big Sky Conference Championships on her home turf.
MAY 10—Lettsome House’s Intermediate Girls Nelda Huggins took sole possession of the 5-year old 200m National Scholastic and National Youth Records she shared with Britney Wattley, highlighting the parade of 15 championships records established at Friday’s closing of the 42nd Elmore Stoutt Inter-House Championships.
MAY 8—Nelda Huggins—the territory top Jr. female sprinter—broke a slew of records in winning the Intermediate Girls 100m dash on Day I of the 42nd Elmore Stoutt High School Inter-House Sports Day Championships today.
MAY 6—There were over 30 women and men—who dressed like women for the cause—the FSN Charity 5K Run on Saturday.
MAY 5—Bethune-Cookman Wildcats Jr. Keron Stoute, set himself up nicely for the territory’s inaugural Collegiate Performer of the Year Award to be doled out later this year, after securing second place finished in the MEAC Outdoor Track and Field Championships Decathlon and Open High Jumps, during the competition held at North Carolina A&T in Greensboro, North Carolina.
MAY 1—The U.S. and British Virgin Islands’ top female sprinters Laverne Jones-Ferrette and Tahesia Harrigan-Scott are good friends, mothers of a daughter and a son and also 100m rivals.
APRIL 30—On Saturday the second and final race of the Dive BVI 10k series was held on Virgin Gorda in honour of the runners and victims of the Boston Marathon tragedy last month.
APRIL 29—Portland State Vikings Sr. Dominique Maloney and American Heritage High School Sr. Khari Herbert notched 400m personal bests in competitions in California and Florida respectively on Saturday.
APRIL 21—For the fourth time in her career, British Virgin Islands sprinter Tahesia Harrigan-Scott has qualified for the IAAF World Championships in the 100m dash.
APRIL 16—James Carr and NiMade Oniasih used different strategies of fend off challenges for victories in Saturday’s Carrot Bay Classic, the third stop of the 2013 Blenheim Trust 5K Series Tour of Tortola.
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APRIL 15—Chantel Malone became the territory’s first athlete punching her qualifying ticket to the 14th IAAF World Championships in Moscow, Russia this summer while Karene King narrowly missed the mark.
APRIL 9—The Dive BVI 10K series got under way on Saturday with Ravi Suku and Maria Mays running to victory in the men’s and women’s divisions, respectively.
Linda Huggins was among the crowds that turned up outside Road Town Ferry Terminal last Tuesday; her voice hoarse from the shouting and cheering she had done days before.
APRIL 7—With the 2013 outdoor track and field season in full swing, the top BVI female athletes have begun making their marks as they seek to qualify for the 14th IAAF World Championships in Moscow, Russia, later this summer.
Officials and some junior athletes pose for the camera outside Road Town Ferry Terminal shortly after the team’s return from the 2013 Carifta Games in the Bahamas. (via bvinews.com)
NASSAU, The Bahamas, April 2—Judine Lacey passed the Bahamas’ U17 Girls 4x400m Relay anchor leg in the last 50m, to give the BVI its fourth silver and record eight overall medal, to close out the 42nd Carifta Games in Nassau, Bahamas on Monday night, solidifying the territory’s historic ties to the archipelago in the championships.
NASSAU, The Bahamas, April 1—After fourth and fifth placed finishes in the U17 Girls 4x100m Relay and the U17 Boys Shot Put, the BVI will begin its drive for more medals on the final day of competition in the 42nd Carifta Games here in Nassau, Bahamas today.
NASSAU, The Bahamas—Another chapter was added to the BVI’s Carifta Games historic ties to Nassau, The Bahamas, when the territory’s athletes bagged four medals on the opening day of the 42nd edition of the premier regional Jr. Track and Field Championships.
NASSAU, The Bahamas, Mar 30—Eldred Henry got the BVI’s first session of competition in the 42nd Carifta Games off with an U20 Boys Discus Throw bronze medal this morning, while three athletes advanced to tonight’s 400m U17 Girls and Boys 400m and U20 Boys 400m final.
MARCH 26—Stiff winds robbed birthday girl Ashley Kelly of a 200m personal best as she grabbed two second placed finishes in Saturday’s Miami Invitational, on the University of Miami campus in Coral Gables.
MARCH 25—Steven Asson overhauled Virgin Gorda’s Emrol Amsterdam in the last quarter mile, to win Saturday’s Blenheim Trust 5K Series race on Beef Island, while Kathrina Crumpler—coming off a Half Iron Man in Puerto Rico—took the women’s division.
MARCH 22—The BVI Athletics Association today, officially announced its delegation to the 42nd Carifta Games in Nassau, Bahamas, during a press conference at the Dept. of Youth Affairs and Sports.
MARCH 20—The 2013 Dive BVI 5K Series wrapped up on Saturday in The Valley, Virgin Gorda with Emrol Amsterdam and Kathleen Brownsdon taking this year’s men’s and women’s titles, respectively.
MARCH 18—An injury that led to unlooked for performances in the 400m, Shot Put and High Jump events, caused Bethune-Cookman Jr. Keron Stoute to fall short of Paul “On The Ball” Hewlette’s National Decathlon Record on Saturday, when he won the Miami Hurricanes Invitational with 6069 points. Hewlette’s record is 6609.
MARCH 16—It was an A day after all in the 2013 Inter-Primary Schools Athletics Championships, with Alexandrina Maduro, Althea Scatliffe and Agape all going to winners row in their respective divisions.