All results / Stories / Brent Stubbs
Henry Rolle to co-ordinate relay coaching staff
By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net WHEN Team Bahamas heads to this year's Olympics, coach Henry Rolle said they are going to make every effort to ensure that all four relay teams are present at the Games in London, England. R
Lord Sebastian Coe pleased with World Relays
WORLD Athletics president Lord Sebastian Coe felt that they made the right decision in bringing the World Relays back to the Bahamas where it gave birth at the Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium in 2014. As he made his trek around the stadium during the final of the two days of competition on Sunday, the two-time Olympic Games 1,500m gold and 800m silver medallist for Great Britain said the Bahamas put on a spectacular show in hosting the World Relays for the fourth time.
Team Bahamas gets set for IAAF World Indoors
By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net Chris 'Fireman' Brown is expected to defend his 400 metres title and Chandra Sturrup is back for another 60m medal as they head the Bahamas' nine-member team for the 13th IAAF World Indoor C
Relay team could qualify for the London Olympics
By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net The Bahamas Swimming Federation (BSF) could for the first time have a 4 x 100 freestyle relay team qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games. The team of Arianna Vanderpoool-Wallace, Alana Dillet
Relay team could qualify for the London Olympics
By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net The Bahamas Swimming Federation (BSF) could for the first time have a 4 x 100 freestyle relay team qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games. The team of Arianna Vanderpoool-Wallace, Alana Dillet
Athletes shine abroad
Athletes shine abroad By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net As the track and field season swings into high gear, a number of Bahamian athletes made their presence felt on the elite and collegiate scenes this weekend. In the USA
Athletes shine abroad
Athletes shine abroad By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net As the track and field season swings into high gear, a number of Bahamian athletes made their presence felt on the elite and collegiate scenes this weekend. In the USA
Athletes shine abroad
Athletes shine abroad By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net As the track and field season swings into high gear, a number of Bahamian athletes made their presence felt on the elite and collegiate scenes this weekend. In the USA
Sixteen-year-old Shania Adderley shocks the world
IT was the biggest and grandest stage of her life, but junior quarter-miler Shania Adderley was unrattled, not even after she admitted that she was a bit nervous making her debut as a senior competitor on the global scene. At just 16 years old and just getting ready to complete her senior year in grade 12 at Tabernacle Baptist Academy in Grand Bahama, Adderley was thrust into the spotlight at the BTC World Relays Bahamas 2024 as a member of The Bahamas’ mixed 4 x 400 metre relay team.
'My main focus is to get an outdoor individual medal...'
By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net CHRIS 'Fireman' Brown is eager to defend his 400 metre title at the 13th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics next week in Istanbul, Turkey. Thirty four-year-old Brown is one of nine
'My main focus is to get an outdoor individual medal...'
By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net CHRIS 'Fireman' Brown is eager to defend his 400 metre title at the 13th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics next week in Istanbul, Turkey. Thirty four-year-old Brown is one of nine
Dominic Demeritte ‘humbled’ by new post
DOMINIC Demeritte, the last athlete to win the International Amateur Athletic Federation’s World Indoor Championships’ 200 metres, is now the latest Bahamian to enter the track and field coaching ranks at an American college - a role he relishes with enthusiasm. Last week, Jayme Pendergast, the director of athletics at Life University, announced the appointment of the 1995 St John’s College graduate to the position of leader of the men’s cross country and men’s track and field programme in Marietta, Georgia.
Happy Olympic anniversary Pauline Davis-Thompson
IT took her fifth and final Olympic Games in 2000 in Sydney, Australia for Pauline Davis-Thompson to ascend the podium to finally secure her elusive individual track and field medal on the world’s biggest sporting stage.
200 specialty only focus for 'golden girl' Debbie
200 specialty only focus for 'golden girl' Debbie By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net Having struggled in her bid to win a medal in the shorter sprint, Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie has decided to try something new this year and o
Top athletes in spotlight for National Sports Heritage Month
WITH sports taking on a new look due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture has made some changes to its National Sports Heritage Month.
North and Central Andros in win column
THE North and Central Andros team finally snapped the Temple Christian Academy Suns’ three-year reign as champions of the Frank ‘Pancho’ Rahming National Primary Schools Track and Field Championships.
Devynne Charlton hosts free hurdles camp
Back, this time as the new world indoor record holder, Devynne Charlton was thrilled to share her expertise with the aspiring young ladies in the hurdles on Monday. One day after she represented the Bahamas on the women’s 4 x 100 metre relay team that missed out on an opportunity to qualify for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, Charlton hosted the one-day camp at the original Thomas A. Robinson Track and Field Stadium.
Two most outstanding athletes are honoured
Two most outstanding athletes are honoured By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net Triple jumper Latario Collie-Minns repeated as the most outstanding male competitor in the Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations' (BAAA) S
Hurdler Pedrya Seymour making a comeback
ALTHOUGH she’s been inactive since she made her second appearance at the Olympic Games in 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, former Bahamian 100 metre hurdles record holder Pedrya Seymour is looking forward to giving it another shot. Now back in training with her original coach George Cleare in Louisiana, Seymour is working towards making the team that will represent the Bahamas at the Olympics in Paris, France, July 27 to August 11.
Sports news in brief
Sports news in brief SOCCER BFA RELOCATION THE Bahamas Football Association has announced that its office has been relocated to Rosetta Street. The new phone numbers are 322-4343 and 328-7666. TRACK NCAA D1 INDOORS TWO athletes are expected to represen
