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National reps awarded scholarships at GC Foster Published: Thursday | September 24, 2009
Anthony Foster, Gleaner Writer
National netballer, Crystal Gordon, one of the scholarship recipients. - File
National representatives Crystal Gordon and Rayon Lawrence were among 19 student/athletes issued with scholarships by G.C. Foster College of Physical Education last Friday.
Gordon, who represented Jamaica at the recently concluded World Youth Netball Championships, and Lawrence, a member of Jamaica's team to the Central America and Caribbean Championships, had their $168,350 yearly scholarship package made official at a press luncheon held at the school's campus in Angels, St Catherine.
The 19 recipients include 11 track and field athletes, three netballers, two cricketers and one each in the disciplines of football, hockey and volleyball.
Edward Shakes, principal at G.C. Foster College, said these scholarships are important because over the years students have encountered difficulties paying tuition fees.
"We have found over the years we have had persons who come forward, but need assistance and so we have developed this scholarship programme to provide this assistance for them," he explained.
As a pre-requisite for the scholarships, Shakes said the students will "have to prove themselves as worthy athletes. They have to do well, because they are going to be representing G.C. Foster.
Good ambassadors
"We selected some of the best coming out of the high schools, identified them by their talent and also we looked at their ability to perform at the tertiary level academically," he pointed out.
"We expect them to be good students, good ambassadors of the college when they represent us," he added.
The principal also stated that the beneficiaries would have to maintain academic excellence.
"For example, they need to maintain a B average in order to maintain the scholarship," he said.
Danny Hawthorne, national track and field coach, and lecturer at the college, told the students that they are blessed, as "many others would've wanted these scholarships.
"I want you to use it wisely," he urged.
Responding on behalf of the recipients, Lawrence said: "Thanks to G.C. Foster College. We are very grateful for it."
The recipients are Seroya Wright (football)..............
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Effective 2008-2009 academic year, The UWI, Mona will also be offering a number of scholarships to selected athletes initially in the track & field and football.
Is there an intercollegiate league in JA, I know we dont have many universities and colleges but we have a growing number of community colleges enough I believe to start a league.
This would give high school grads a chance to keep developing for the ones who haven't made it to the club leagues, instead of letting them waste away doing nothing.
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I do not think the objective is to establish a InterColl league. It is more to provide an option to youth national and olympic team athletes a chance to train and study in Jamaica. This will provide coaches and athletes easier access to each other.
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UWI awards its athletes with cash and prizes
Friday, September 25, 2009
IN a show of appreciation and recognition for its student-athletes who have represented the institution at the local and international levels, the University of the West Indies, Mona, will be awarding over $500,000 in cash and prizes at this weekend's UWI Sports Awards Ceremony.
The annual ceremony is scheduled for Saturday beginning at 7 pm at the UWI, Mona campus' Rex Nettleford Hall's Multi Purpose room. Joseph Pereira, Deputy Principal at the UWI, Mona Campus, will be the guest speaker.
As the university aims to focus its efforts on producing athletes who are competitive at the local and global levels, the support and honouring of its athletes is of vital and necessary importance.
Awards will be presented to athletes for their outstanding performance in the various sporting disciplines over the last academic year.
A sectional prize of Sportsman and Sportswoman of the year will also be awarded to two outstanding athletes from the list of awardees.
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Inter-col sports off with a bang
Everard Owen
Thursday, October 15, 2009
The Jamaica Intercollegiate Sports Association's sports progamme got under way last Saturday at the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE) in football (male and female), netball and basketball.
The Greg Garel Memorial KO football competition began, along with the women's football tournament..........
The day started with general secretary Anthony Davis challenging the athletes "to strive for excellence, perform to your best as we seek to get Inter-col to be the best in all sports. Play hard and may the best team win".
Jasher Mais, students affairs director of CASE, implored the athletes to play within the confines of the laws and to "perform to the highest levels as you strive for excellence"......... .
In the women's football competition, UTech defeated Shortwood 5-0 with a braces from Anika Elliott and Ramon Cocokett, while UTech topped MoBay Comm College 6-0, with Olivena Holness scoring a hat-trick.
In the Greg Garel Memorial KO football opener, Exed CC went by Shortwood, 2-0, and VTDI edged Church, 1-0.
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Inter Coll Schools:
UWI UTech CASE CMI GC Foster Shortword MoBay Comm College Excelsior Comm College Church Teacher's College VTDI Mico Teacher's College St Josephs Bethlehem Brown's Town Knox CC Sam Sharpe Portmore Moneague
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UWI offers 10 sports scholarships in new academic year
BY PAUL BURROWES
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
DEMONSTRATING its new emphasis on sports, the University of the West Indies, Mona has granted 10 scholarships for the 2009-2010 academic year.
Footballers and track and field athletes split the scholarships evenly, with St George's College past student Darrion Mitchell, World Youth Championships semi-finalist Hansle Parchment, and three members of Jamaica College's winning 2007 Manning Cup team highlighting those awarded scholarships.
Eighteen-year-old Mitchell placed sixth at Boys' Championships in April this year in a personal best 21.70 seconds in the 200m and ran a personal best 10.59 seconds for third at the Camperdown Classsics in February.
Parchment, 19, a Morant Bay High standout, reached the semi-finals of the 2007 World Youth Championships in the 110m hurdles and was fifth at Boys' Championships in 2008.
The JC trio of Anthony Grant, Kemar Douglas and George Smart have also won scholarships to the UWI. Grant was the school's top scorer two years ago, as Andre Bernal, who played for St Jago High and Yashima Love of Cornwall College and Village United round out the five footballers.
Calabar High's past students Sean Robinson and Roderick Tennant, members of the winning 2007 Champs team, and Munro College's Odane Reid complete the scholarship winners.
For the second year UWI has awarded scholarships to "athletes who excelled academically as part of an initiative to develop sports throughout the island".
Last year UWI awarded eight scholarships: Jabari Wallace, Aaron Spence, David Dunn, Andrene Nelson, Cosmo Stephens, Troy Campbell, Devon Smith, and Kristopher Lewis.
The Sports Scholarship programme falls under the UWI Sport Enhancement Fund which started in 2008-2009 as a magnet for new students with good sporting talents in football and track and field, covering tuition or accommodation or both.
For the next two seasons UWI will step up preparations so that their athletes will represent the university and the country.
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Scholarship Programme
The UWI Mona scholarship programme is one of the interventions introduced last academic year to bolster the sports programme on Campus. It took on a special focus for incoming students in two disciplines, male football and track & field athletics. The special focus was a result of increasing the presence of male students on the campus and fulfilling a long time mandate of have a special focus in track & field for the Campus.
Last academic year there were eight male recipients, split evenly for track and football. This academic year we have nine recipients, five footballers and four male track & field athletes. The 1st mandate of the football team to re-enter the Kingston & St. Andrew Football Association (KSAFA) Syd Bartlett league and qualify for Major League was realised. This year’s mandate for football will be to move from the KSAFA Major League into the Super League. This path is ultimately leading to the positioning of a Mona Campus team in the National premier League.
Track and field on Campus is taking a new direction with a focus on sprint development. The incentive of training on the same track (and occasionally at the same time) with the world Record holder Usain Bolt, is expected to have some impact on the cadre of talented student athletes vying to be the best in the nation, Caribbean and the world in the near future.
The scholarship recipients and their disciplines are stated below. Name Sport Year Faculty *Mr. Anthony Grant Football 1 Geography Mr. Yashiema Love Football 1 P&A Mr. Kemar Douglas Football 1 Hotel Management Mr. George Smart Football 1 Philosophy Mr. Andre Bernal Football 1 Chemistry & management Mr. Darrion Mitchell Track Athletics 1 Accounting Mr. Odane Reid Track Athletics 1 P&A Mr. Rodrick Tennant Track Athletics 1 P&A Mr. Sean Robinson Track Athletics 1 Banking & Finance
Mr. Kristopher Lewis Football 2 Social Sciences Mr. Aaron Spence Football 2 H&E Mr. Jabari Wallace Football 2 Social Sciences Mr. Devon Smith Football 2 H&E Mr. David Dunn Track Athletics 2 Social Sciences Mr. Andrene Nelson Track Athletics 2 Social Sciences Mr. Cosmo Stephens Track Athletics 2 P&A Mr. Troy Campbell Track Athletics 2 P&A
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UWI gives ballers chance to score with scholarships Published: Wednesday | January 6, 2010
Ryon Jones, Gleaner Writer
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High school footballers from across the island will be given the opportunity to showcase their talent at the inaugural University of the West Indies (UWI) Football Scholarship Festival, which will commence on Thursday at the Mona campus.
The three-day event is a collaborative effort between UWI, Mona, and the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) and will afford youngsters who are talented and academically eligible the opportunity to be recruited by local and overseas universities.
The event, which is slated to become an annual one on UWI's sporting calendar, will see the successful students attending the university free of cost.
The festival will feature the playing of a series of matches featuring senior high school footballers from across the island, going up against the UWI Mona team in scouting games.
Preceding showdown
Saturday's Major League match between UWI, Mona and Police National, which is slated to get on the way at 3 p.m., will be preceded by an All-Manning/All-daCosta Cup showdown, which kicks off at 1 p.m.
The endeavour, which is the brainchild of Neville 'Bertis' Bell, who is the coach of UWI and Manning and Olivier Shield champions St George's College, is driven by UWI's desire to enlist footballers, according to their Sports Development Director, Grace Jackson, the Jamaican Olympic silver medallist.
Jackson said: "It is driven by the fact that we need to recruit footballers to the university but we didn't want to be selfish about it, we wanted to give all those other footballers an opportunity to be able to at least try to see if they could get scholarships, if not to the University of the West Indies, but any other institution that would offer them scholarships.
"Therefore, we opened it up and decided that we would invite the overseas coaches and also some local coaches," she pointed out.
Jackson does admit that UWI will be at a disadvantage as everybody will be in the same pool, but deems it as being of a greater advantage to the student athletes who are going to be participating in the festival and getting an opportunity to obtain a tertiary-level education.
"It is going to be very challenging because we have not been able to get the type of sponsorship that we would like so we as hosts are doing the best we can," Jackson said.
"We are getting sponsorship from Gatorade; they have committed to assist us with liquids," she added.
Some of the other universities that will be scouting at the festival include the University of Technology and G.C. Foster College, while from overseas there will be the University of South Florida, Lindsay Wilson University and the University of Denver.
The maximum number of 60 players who will be participating in the festival will be selected by ISSA and will play in a game format where the scouts can get an opportunity to see them playing for a minimum of 60 minutes.
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UWI capture KSAFA Major League title
BY LIVINGSTON SCOTT Observer staff reporter
Sunday, March 21, 2010
THE University of the West Indies (UWI) captured the 2009/2010 Claro/KSAFA Major League title after scoring a 3-0 win over Brown's Town at Vauxhall yesterday.
Andre Bernal scored twice and Oneil Fairweather once as the Neville 'Bertis' Bell-coached team claimed their first title by virtue of their head-to-head result against Rockfort, who defeated Molynes 1-0 to also finish on 45 points.
KSAFA president Rudolph Speid (left) hands over the Claro/KSAFA Major League trophy to UWI captain Rohn Rainford and members of the UWI team after they defeated Brown's Town 3-0 to claim the title at Vauxhall High School yesterday. (Photo: Garfield Robinson) [Hide Description] KSAFA president Rudolph Speid (left) hands over the Claro/KSAFA Major League trophy to UWI captain Rohn Rainford and members of the UWI team after they defeated Brown's Town 3-0 to claim the title at Vauxhall High School yesterday. (Photo: Garfield Robinson) [Restore Description] 1/1
In the day's other results, Central Kingston defeated Greenwich Town 6-1; Police Nationals turned back Whitfield Town 2-1; Swallowfield beat Liguanea 3-1, while Cooreville and Olympic drew 2-2.
UWI and Rockfort ended on the same number of points, but while Rockfort scored a 3-1 win over their opponents in the first round, UWI rallied to take the second-round fixture 3-0 to hold the advantage entering the final round.
And knowing that victory would be enough to give them the title, UWI set about the game in a business-like manner and eventually reaped rewards just past the half-hour when Fearweather's beautiful strike put them ahead.
The home team started the second half the better side, but Bernal added a second for UWI when he headed past the Brown's Town custodian nine minutes after the break.
Another headed goal from the striker in the 74th secured the win for Mona-based institution, which will contest the Super League next season, along with second-placed finishers Rockfort.
Bell, said it was an uncertain season, but his players made winning the title possible.
"We lost our first game, but then we went on and won the next six. But then we lost the next four after that and I thought that that was it for us.
"But for a team to do well you need good players and I believe we have some very good players here at UWI," he said.
Meanwhile, Ricardo Munro got Greenwich Town's lone goal in their mauling against Central Kingston to finish atop the scoring chart with 17 goals. His teammate David Stultz and Bernal had the second highest with 12 strikes.
Swallowfield (eight points ) and Olympic Gardens (15 points) finished last and second-to-last and will be relegated to the Syd Bartlett League next season.
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With UWI promotion in the KSAFA Super League, now top student-athlete have the opportunity to play in arguably the best league below the DPL while completing a world-class education.
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I think if UWI is able to field undergraduate and graduate/professional students, they can definately be competitive in the KSAFA Super League or even the DPL. They will have access to some of the best facilities on the island.
