2009 Boys and Girls Champs Buzz Building

Posted on March 10, 2009 by Jamaipanese

Track and field has always been big in Jamaica but with the performance of Jamaica athletes in recent years, culminating in our sprint domination in Beijing last year track and field is rising even higher.

A little History

Almost 100 years ago when Jamaica was still a British colony 6 local high schools started competing in track and field events, fast forward to the present and over 100 schools and thousands of high school students between 12 and 18 now compete in one of the biggest yearly track and field events in the world. Most of the members of Jamaica’s current track team were stars on the track from their high school days at champs including the world’s fastest man Usain Bolt who was then a 400m runner.


over 30,000 spectators pack the National Stadium each
year to watch Jamaica’s future Track and Field Stars

International Spotlight

International press have been flooding into the island since the Beijing  Olympics to cover Jamaican athletes and Champs being one of the major events on the local track and field calendar is expected to attract a lot of international attention.


Asafa Powell handing out prizes at last year’s champs – Remember the
name of the sprinter Ramone McKenzie, he has great potential

In 2009 title sponsors GraceKennedy present the Boys’ and Girls’ Championships and I’ll be there on the final day (champs is from April 1-4 this year) cheering on my high school team Calabar High School who are favorite to win for the boys section for the third consecutive year.

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26 Responses to 2009 Boys and Girls Champs Buzz Building

  1. frank palmer says:
    April 2, 2009 at 2:03 pm

    calabar cant loose!09

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  2. Nastasia says:
    April 3, 2009 at 12:22 pm

    calabar for life…winning champs 2009 [girl]

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  3. frank palmer says:
    April 3, 2009 at 2:28 pm

    CALABAR /RABALAC/ UTMOST FOR THE HIGHEST, FL.

    Reply
  4. shakeria samuels says:
    April 4, 2009 at 6:44 pm

    who is 2009 champs winner [tongue]

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  6. Miss Indpendent says:
    April 4, 2009 at 8:13 pm

    Kc a tek it to them fi 09 [jamaica]

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  7. Miss Indpendent says:
    April 4, 2009 at 8:22 pm

    We win champs for boys? Kc? [love]

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  8. Ava says:
    April 4, 2009 at 8:51 pm

    dont care!! [evil]

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  9. Miss Indpendent says:
    April 4, 2009 at 8:52 pm

    Who win for the boys Kc? [evil]

    Reply
  11. BEAST says:
    April 5, 2009 at 9:51 am

    KC won by 1.5 points over C-BAR for their 31st Title(most wins), also won Schools Challenge(9 titles, most wins) by 28 points over Ardenne earlier in the week. KC has most wins in Cricket, Chess, Basketball, 3rd in Football…..list goes on and on….need i say more.

    Ava….don’t discriminate….just participate and appreciate

    FORTIS FOR LIFE……..FORTIS FOREVER.

    Bronx

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  13. Jamaipanese says:
    April 5, 2009 at 9:57 am

    congrats to the KC family. They barely won but a win is a win. Well fought Calabar we’ll get them next year

    Reply
  14. BEAST says:
    April 5, 2009 at 4:43 pm

    Most wins by far in Table tennis [pole]

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  15. jojo says:
    April 5, 2009 at 6:13 pm

    FORTiS Fi LiFE… [jamaica]

    Reply
  16. TRU TRU says:
    April 6, 2009 at 2:48 pm

    kc to the world

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  17. Dan says:
    April 6, 2009 at 3:54 pm

    Yea champs was a very close one this year…regardless of which school took the crown they would have barely won… KC won by 1.5 points if c-bar won, it wouldn’t be any different..

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  18. Kelsey Salmon says:
    April 6, 2009 at 5:49 pm

    who cares about champs? I think i [zzz] it” boring

    Reply
  19. BEAST says:
    April 6, 2009 at 6:48 pm

    Hey Kelsey…..gwaan a u blouse and skirt yard …..wha u mean by Champs boring…..i guess u are not a Jamaican, or yu never went to high school …..keep ur comments to ur self….If you ever been there you would know Champs is the next best thing to weed (lol) [anime]

    FOREVER FORTIS

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  20. Kelsey Salmon says:
    April 7, 2009 at 7:41 pm

    Oh sorry Beast.How would you feel if you have a report to write on Champs? F.Y.I I am a Jamaica. [girl]

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  21. Antonio Jones says:
    June 4, 2009 at 4:08 pm

    [surfer] [jamaica] [tongue] [gamer] I was disappointed that CALABAR didn’t beat kingston college to win. No matter what happens in the following champs ahead ‘C BAR mi a sey straight to di world “go get dem mi fambily from reds road.

    Reply
  22. TT says:
    December 12, 2009 at 1:03 pm

    clarendon college to di worl lol [anime] [pole] [evil] [angel] [gamer] [jamaica]

    Reply
  25. theressa parchment says:
    May 19, 2010 at 11:35 am

    HOLMWOOD WE SEH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [love]

    Reply

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