IN JAMAICA: Fierce Champs Battle For Boys' And Girls' Champs Titles....Defending champions Calabar and Edwin Allen High schools are favoured...Hailed as the greatest event of its kind on the planet, the five-day championships, which gets under way today inside the National Stadium.

Published March 24, 2015

"Come and get it if you can!". That's the challenge from defending boys and girls' champions Calabar and Edwin Allen High schools.

Saqukine Cameron, 
Edwin Allen's top sprinter

They won't be short of takers, so brace yourselves for what is expected to be one of the most exciting Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA)/ GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships title races in recent history.

Hailed as the greatest event of its kind on the planet, the five-day championships, which gets under way today inside the National Stadium, will form the stage as the island's - and in some cases the world's - best young talent scrap it out for the greatest honour in local high school sports, glory at 'Champs'.

Calabar's Class One sprinter/hurdler 
Michael O'Hara

The plot largely remains the same in the boys' section, with defending champions Calabar expected to fight tooth and nail with old foes Kingston College (KC), who are desperate to end a five-year drought and avenge last year's 96.5-point demolition, with Jamaica College (JC) quietly confident of upsetting the applecart. However, as far as Calabar's head coach, Michael Clarke, is concerned, his team is ready and waiting to celebrate their fourth straight hold on the Mortimer Geddes trophy and 25th title overall.

"We have had some outstanding performances over the past year. Our preparations have gone very well and, as a result, I am looking forward to an exciting and highly competitive championships," Clarke said. "What I know is that Calabar, we have been preparing quite well over the past couple of months, and we are looking forward to some amazing results at Champs. more