EDITOR’S NOTE: Towards the end of April, #EduCaribbean featured Jamaican high school sports in our edition 2021-05-03, and the 2021 ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships in particular. This newsletter does the same, with an emphasis on record-breaking performances. Additional content can be found in our Twitter feed.
Our headline, taken from the the Jamaica Gleaner, reads: “#Champs 2021 | JC, Edwin Allen Crowned ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys And Girls’ Athletics Champions”. Edwin Allen High School won their seventh straight 2021 ISSA/GraceKennedy Girls’ title and eighth overall. Jamaica College (JC) won the Boys’ Athletics Championship, their first title since 2011.
Cedricka Williams of Holmwood Technical High set the first record in the Girl’s Class Two Discus with a throw of 47.04m on her final attempt, beating the previous mark of 46.69m set by Marie Forbes of Vere Technical back in 2018. She had taken the lead on her second throw but was never close to her personal best of 51.27m.
Javier Brown of Jamaica College set the second record in the Class One 400m hurdles in a time of 49.86 seconds, beating the previous record of 49.94 seconds set by Rovane Williams in 2018. Edwin Allen’s Chevonne Hall took the Class One Boys 800m title in a record time of 1:48.58 minutes.