JUNE 16. Rosmond Johnson and Reuben Stoby had season opening victories on Saturday in the Ceres Juices 10K Series opener on the City Circuit course in Road Town.
JUNE 1—Top Notch Track Club’s Xiomara “Gia” Malone teammate Malaki Smith and Sprint Tech Track Club’s Aria Smith, were the top performers in Saturday’s BVI Athletics Association CAC Age Group trials—which also saw five St. Croix athletes in action.
MAY 25—St. Augustine sophomore and British Virgin Islands native Khari Herbert, ran a lifetime best, missed the territory’s 400m national standard by 0.11 seconds when he finished third in Saturday’s NCAA Division II Championships 400m in Allendale, Michigan.
MAY 20—Saturday’s finale of the Blenheim Trust 5K Series—which also marked the inaugural National 5K Championships—saw Reuben Stoby and Katrina Crumpler—emerging as overall series winners after the finale in Road Town.
MAY 18—Central Arizona College sophomore Eldred Henry not only repeated as National Jr. Colleges Athletics Association Championships Discus Throw champion, but added the Shot Put crown as well, while Trevia Gumbs claimed Shot Put silverware, during the competition held in Hutchinson, Kansas.
MAY 12—A Under 15 athletes from across the territory showed that the future of British Virgin Islands Track and Field is bright, as they displayed their running, jumping and throwing abilities, during the weekend Premier Dental National Youth Championships at the A. O. Shirley Recreation Grounds.
The event—rescheduled from last weekend—also marked the 20th IAAF World Athletics Day.
MAY 11—Central Arizona College freshman and British Virgin Islands native Trevia Gumbs erased twin sister Tynelle's Discus Throw national standard after improving her own Shot Put mark, while Eldred Henry claimed Eric Mathias' 11 year old Hammer Throw National Record in the Arizona Jr. Colleges Region I Championships, held in Mesa. Their performances helped Central Arizona to comfortable win the women and men's divisions with 277 and 294 points respectively.
MAY 11, VIRGIN GORDA—St. John's Timothy "TJ" Hindes sprinted away from the pack at the start—using the same strategy he employed last year—then went on to become the first repeat winner in the four year history of the grueling Virgin Gorda Half Marathon, improving his own course record in the process.
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.