Sports in brief
CHAMPION Amateur Boxing Club is scheduled to present “The Heat is on” amateur boxing show at the Wulff Road Boxing Square 6pm March 1. In the showcase will be Lennox Boyce, Donovan Taylor and Don Rolle.
Baptist Sports Council’s AID Basketball Classic gets into full gear
THE Baptist Sports Council continued its 2015 AID Basketball Classic at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex over the weekend.
CARIFTA TEAM NAMED
Joanna Evans, the junior swimmer of the year, will head a 36-member team that is expected to travel to Bridgetown, Barbados, April 2-8 to defend their title at the CARIFTA Swimming Championships.
Shavez Hart helps Texas A&M Aggies capture 4x400 relay
SHAVEZ Hart may not have had the type of performance he anticipated in the men’s 200 metres at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships. But he walked away with a bit of history as he helped the Texas A&M Aggies men capture the 4 x 400m relay in grand style.
‘It was so good to compete in a meet that wasn’t the nationals’
SHE HAS been called the “hardest” working member of SwimMac in Charlotte, North Carolina. But Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace has attributed a lot of her success to the relationship that she has developed with her teammates and the environment that the coaching staff has created for them.
SPORTING MISCHIEF & MAYHEM: Cheers to the best Irish sportsman ever
ON THIS St Patrick’s Day, I feel it would only be fitting for this week’s column to be dedicated to possibly the “best” Irish athlete ever ... George Best.
Men’s senior national soccer team in World Cup qualifier
THE Bahamas Football Association, along with its players and staff, is keyed on preparation and galvanising public support for the upcoming FIFA World Cup Russia 2018 Qualifiers.
Tavario Miller and Aggies accept bid to play in NIT
IT IS not the NCAA Tournament but one Bahamian NCAA Division I basketball player will still have an opportunity for a postseason appearance.
Lochte swim spectacular
MARVIN Johnson broke two national records and a number of swimmers made the qualifying standards for both the Caribbean Games and the CCCAN as the Bahamas Swimming Federation hosted its Time Trials at the Betty Kelly Kenning Swim Complex over the weekend.
Top swimmers take spotlight at inaugural awards banquet
IN typical fashion of their historic performances, Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace and Joanna Evans were named the senior and junior swimmers of the year respectively by the Bahamas Swimming Federation.
Four Bahamian players all set for NCAA ‘March Madness’
FOR the second consecutive year, four Bahamian players and their respective universities received bids into the 68-team field for the NCAA Men’s Division I Tournament, commonly referred to as “March Madness.”
Spartans suffer 80-69 loss to Badgers in Big 10 title game
CHAMPIONSHIP Week is in the books, and it was a series of contrasting results for Bahamian players in their respective Men’s Division I conference tournaments.
First King Eric Gibson Memorial Golf Tournament to be held in May
ON the heels of the King Eric Gibson Sailing Regatta in January, the inaugural King Eric Gibson Memorial Golf Tournament - the first local tournament for the year for the Bahamas Golf Federation - will be held on Sunday, May 3.
SOCCER GAMES CANCELLED AFTER COPPER THEFT
NOT even the local playing fields are now safe from the alleged copper wire thieves.
SIMONE IN TRAINING TO BE FIRST BAHAMIAN GYMNAST AT THE PAN AMERICAN GAMES
SIMONE Hall, of the Nassau Gymnastics Club, has been training in New Jersey, US, since early January in preparation for the 2015 Pan American Games. It is the first time a Bahamian gymnast has been represented at the prestigious competition.
