25 results returned for search: "education AND " category "Track & Field"
The off-again, on-again Carifta Games are officially off, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
The news that young athletes around the Caribbean, and in particular in Bermuda, have dreaded was confirmed last night by governing body the North American, Centr...
DATE: May 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Track & Field
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AUTHOR:
Dexter Smith, Head of Sport
The Carifta Games have been put back by a further month, it was confirmed yesterday.
Having already been postponed from last April because of the global pandemic, and rescheduled from this April to July, the popular youth athletics event will now be ...
DATE: Mar 12, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Track & Field
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AUTHOR:
Lawrence Trott
Bermuda National Athletics Association director of athletics, DeVon Bean has successfully passed with distinction, the Sprints and Hurdles IAAF Level 5 Elite Academy Coach Course.
The IAAF Academy Course for Elite Coach is the highest recognised ach...
DATE: Nov 02, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Track & Field
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AUTHOR:
Sport Staff
The Bermuda National Athletics Association has announced a team of 18 athletes to compete at the Carifta Games in Cayman Islands next month.
The BNAA selected the team on Wednesday, naming 11 under-17 division athletes and seven in the under-20 divis...
DATE: Mar 29, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Track & Field
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AUTHOR:
Lawrence Trott
Sakari Famous joined an elite group of Bermudian athletes after accepting a full athletics scholarship to the University of Georgia.
The high jumper signed a letter of intent during an emotional press conference at Berkeley Institute yesterday, where...
DATE: Nov 10, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Track & Field
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AUTHOR:
Colin Thompson
Olympic long jumper Arantxa King has hung up her spikes at the age of 27.
“I retired after a series of injuries I could not overcome and the general sentiments of wanting to move on from sport,” King said.
The daughter of Branwen Smith-King — who com...
DATE: Jan 20, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Track & Field
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AUTHOR:
Colin Thompson
Jackie Joyner-Kersee does not believe her words alone are enough to inspire the next generation of athletes.
Despite being arguably the greatest female athlete of all time, Joyner-Kersee feels the stars of tomorrow need to actually be in her presence...
DATE: Oct 17, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Track & Field
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AUTHOR:
Stephen Wright
The Bermuda National Athletic Association will be hosting two days of training for officials ahead of the Bermuda Invitational Permit Meet for IAAF Technical Officials Education and Certification System.
The training began yesterday and will continue...
DATE: Feb 18, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Track & Field
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Older and wiser after her experience at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Bermuda long jumper Arantxa King is looking forward to a good performance at the Glasgow Games.
Aged just 16 at the time, King failed to reach the final in Australia wi...
DATE: Jul 17, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Track & Field
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AUTHOR:
Lawrence Trott
Long jumpers Tyrone Smith and Arantxa King both failed to make the finals in the IAAF World Championships in Russia, which finished yesterday.
Smith’s top leap of 7.89 metres equalled the jump of Ignisious Gaisah from the Netherlands in Group A, but ...
DATE: Aug 18, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Track & Field
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