Wednesday, April 23, 2014 | 4:51 PM by Gavay Watt
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The cover of the programme for the 2014 Penn Relays pays tribute to Jamaican High Schools as they celebrate 50 years of competing at the relay carnival now in its 120th staging.
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The programme cover has two photos showing the first Jamaican high school team, Kingston College, competing at the event in 1964, and last year’s photo finish in the high school boys’ 4 x 400m relay between Javon ‘Donkey Man’ Francis of Calabar and Delano Williams of Munro College.
In an article on the University of Pennsylvania website, http://www.upenn.edu/ by Maria Zankey, director of the relays, Dave Johnson in speaking to the 50th anniversary of Jamaican high schools competing at the event states, “the inspiration came from Herb McKenley, a great Jamaican quarter-miler who ran at the Relays in ‘46 and ‘47, and later went back to [Kingston, Jamaica] to coach at Calabar High School. He was able to convince the Jamaican high school authorities to send a team to [the Relays.] The team came here that year and won the 440-yard relay.”
This year’s event runs from Thursday, April 24, to Saturday, April 26 and has more than 18,000 competitors from more than 60 countries participating in 425 events. more
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