Track and field made a measured and successful return to competitive action yesterday with the staging of the Athletics Association of Barbados’ Back On Track Meet at the Usain Bolt Sports Complex. On an afternoon of awesome athletic performances, Elite Distance’s Layla Haynes and Quantum Leap’s Caleb Massiah both bested the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletic Association (NACAC) Under-18 qualifying standards for their events. The 16-year-old Haynes posted …
Assessing The UWI’s rich success and history
Article by May 15, 2021
After 15 seasons of competing in the major Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) Championships, Sagicor Life University of West Indies (UWI) are by far the richest club in the island, based on their amazing success.
Granted Division 1 status for the first time in 2006 by the Keith H.L. “Tony” Marshall-led BCA administration, the Cave Hill-based men have been excellent in the three-day, 50-over and Twenty20 Competitions, sweeping to 16 titles all told.
They have captured the Elite (rebranded in 2012 from First) division seven times – 2009, 2010 (shared with Spartan), 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017 and 2018; the Sagicor General Super Cup on four occasions – 2007, 2012, 2015 and 2018 and the Sagicor General T20 Cup a record five times – 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017 – after it started in 2008.
Article by Anmar Goodridge-Boyce
Local junior athletes like Savion Hoyte will now be hoping to qualify for meets likes the Junior Pan Games. (Picture by Kenmore Bynoe.) Social Share
Even though this year’s CARIFTA Games have been cancelled, home-based Barbadian athletes will be back on track this week with the Athletics Association of Barbados’ (AAB) track and field season now set to begin on Saturday behind closed doors at the Usain Bolt Sports Complex.
AAB public relations officer Esther Maynard told MIDWEEK SPORT that a final inspection of the Ryan Brathwaite Track would be carried out this week in preparation for the Back On Track Meet, which will be held in the absence of spectators with all COVID-19 protocols in place.
Weymouth Wales duo Antoine Greaves and Reymar Walters have been called up to the training squad for the Barbados senior national football team. They are joined by Bagatelle’s Stefan Cumberbatch, who has also been invited ahead of next month’s second leg of the Concacaf FIFA World Cup qualifiers in the Dominican Republic. The Tridents, who returned to the training pitch last week, are set to clash with the hosts on …
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