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.
DECEMBER 8–Following the second longest season in its history that ended on November 28, the BVI Athletics Association is gearing up for its 6th Athletes Awards Gala, where its partner Sol will dole out the 2014 Athletes of the Year Awards in Youth, Junior and Senior divisions.
NOVEMBER 26—It was yet another golden moment for the territory. Chantel Malone extended the British Virgin Islands’ Central American and Caribbean Games’ gold medal streak to four straight when she landed at the top of the Long Jump pile in Xalapa, Mexico, during the 22nd edition of the event on Tuesday afternoon. She also became the first in a field event after three medals in the short sprint.
NOVEMBER 23—St. Thomas’ Shane DeGannes became the first 3-peat winner in the nine-year history of the Deloitte-Ogier BVI Sunrise Half Marathon on Saturday.
NOVEMBER 21—When it comes to the Caribbean and Central American Games, British Virgin Islands veteran sprinter Tahesia Harrigan-Scott has already etched her name in history.
NOVEMBER 20—St. Thomas’ leading distance runners Shane DeGannes and Ruth Ann David are seeking 3-peat victories in Saturday’s Deloite-Ogier BVI Sunrise Half Marathon.
NOVEMBER 17—Khari Creque and Katrina Crumpler, foiled Tarique “Tweety” and his sister Tarika “Tinker Bell” Moses’ quest to become the first brother and sister overall Highland Spring College Classic Series champion in history at the conclusion of the 2014 edition on Saturday morning.
NOVEMBER 10—A resurgent Steven Asson—who overcame recurrent back problems that caused him to quit running at one time before a low key return to racing once again—ended two and a half years of frustration by overhauling this two early leading opponents to win the Ceres Juices 10K Series finale on Saturday afternoon.
NOVEMBER 7—A record number of persons have met early bird registration for the 9th Deloite-Ogier BVI Sunrise Half Marathon scheduled for November 22 officials revealed during a media briefing at the Department of Youth Affairs and Sports on Thursday.
OCTOBER 27—After Katrina Crumpler crossed the finish line, Highland Spring College Classic Series director Stephanie Russ Penn, said “the series has just become interesting.”
OCTOBER 23—The Virgin Gorda leg of the 19th Highland Spring H. Lavity Stoutt Community College (HLSCC) Race Series came to a close this past Saturday with the final competitive race.
OCTOBER 15—From running on the beach in Cane Garden Bay, in the school yard, through Inter Primary and Inter-House sports, he became a two times Olympian.
OCTOBER 14—Leading local long distance runner Katrina Crumpler placed 10th in the women’s division of the NACAC Petit Bourg 10km road race in Guadeloupe on Saturday.
OCTOBER 13— Repeating their success from the Beef Island 10k earlier in the road racing season, Julius Farley and tender teenager Tallulah Kinkead led a fast field in Saturday’s Ceres Juices 10K Series tour stop at Trellis Bay, Beef Island. Dubbed the “Steel Man Warm up” the course comprised three laps of the Eastern tip of Beef Island over rolling terrain.
OCTOBER 7—Tarique Moses ended three times defending champion Khiry Creque’s Highland Spring College Classic string of victories on Saturday morning in the second race of the 2014 series on Tortola.
SEPTEMBER 22—Three times defending champion Khiry Creque fended off a late charge from Tarique Moses as he led an opening day record 254 participants o the line in Saturday opener of 19th annual Highland Spring College Classic Series on Tortola.
SEPTEMBER 10—The 19th season of the annual Highland Spring College Classic Series will kick off on Saturday in Virgin Gorda.
SEPTEMBER 1--Three years after picking up the Discus as well as the Shot Put, Eldred Henry ends his first year throwing the senior implements with the best mark ever by an athlete from the OECS region and a #68 ranking on the IAAF World list in the Discus Throw.
AUGUST 26--With a little help from her new found friends from around the world—several of who didn’t speak her language—the BVI’s Lakeisha “Mimi” Warner won a Youth Olympic Games Mixed 8 x100m Relay gold medal on Tuesday, at the close of the track and field segment of the Games in Nanjing, China.
KAMLOOPS, B.C. Canada—Eldred Henry closed his inaugural season as a Sr. athlete with a fourth place finish in the NACAC U23 Championships Discus Throw, followed by a fifth place finish in the Shot Put at Hillside Stadium on the Thompson River University campus in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.