Police seeking revenge vs Fire in Friday’s Johnny Hassan relays

February 11, 2014 by

By: Dean Greenaway

IMG_5337Who will get bragging rights this year? For the last year, the Fire and Rescue Service Department have had bragging rights after defeating Police in their first matchup in the Johnny Hassan Relays a year ago.

Police have ensured that a rematch is in the cards during the BVIAA organized event that starts at 5:30 p.m. on Friday night at the A. O. Shirley Recreation Grounds. Hassan—a former BVI Athletics Association President who served between 1974 and 1976—has put up $300 for the winning team. [Read more…]

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Rain soaked Sukhu, Brownsdon win 2nd Dive BVI 5k race

February 11, 2014 by

By: Dean Greenaway

BrownsdonRavi Sukhu and Kathleen Brownsdon splashed their way to victories in Saturday’s 2nd Dive BVI 5K Series race on Virgin Gorda.

Sukhu who also won the last race, said his time wasn’t as good as in the first race.

“I’ll take it because of the rough house conditions,” said Sukhu who had a winning time of 20 minutes and 27 seconds and was followed by Emrol Amsterdam of Virgin Gorda in 20:38. “I was planning on a better time than last time but after turning up and seeing the conditions, flooded roads, pot holes, I just decided to take it easy and actually thought Emrol would have won, but I managed to pull it back.” [Read more…]

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Huggins mises World Jr. Championships qualifier in second event

February 10, 2014 by

By: Dean Greenaway

100w copyAfter a pedestrian effort last week, National Jr. Record holder and 2013 Carifta Games U17 Girls 100m silver medalist Nelda Huggins shifted gears and ran her fastest century of the season to highlight Friday night’s BVI Athletics Association sixth Development Series meet.

The Top Notch Track Club athlete who last week qualified in the 200m for the IAAF World Jr. Championships scheduled for this summer, came within .07 of qualifying for a second event when she ran 11.97 seconds. [Read more…]

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The BVI at Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games

February 5, 2014 by

Adam[1]The time has come for Peter Adam Crook, the British Virgin Islands competitor in the free style, half-pipe event, to represent the territory in the Winter games. Adam will be the proud flag bearer for the BVI at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games opening ceremony on February 7 at the Fisht Olympic Stadium in the Olympic Park. The qualifier and finals of the ski half pipe competition will take place from 8.30am to 12.30pm AST on February 18 in the Rosa Khutor Extreme park. [Read more…]

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Go BVI! Sochi 2014

February 4, 2014 by

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VIVA Power League starts this weekend

February 3, 2014 by

DSC_0391The Virgin Islands Volleyball Association (VIVA) announces the opening of its 2014 VIVA Power League slated to start on Saturday February 8th, 2014 with an official opening ceremony at 4:30 p.m. Games will immediately follow at the Road Town Multipurpose Sports Complex with 2013 defending men and women champions Just Dream and Phoenix Red.

This year’s league will feature teams that have registered so far; 4 male and 4 female teams in the senior division and a junior division League (more info to follow!)

SENIOR DIVISION Teams
WOMEN MEN
2013 defending champions Phoenix Red 2013 defending champions Just Dream
Raw Power Raw Power
Legends Young Guns
Phoenix Black Fire Power

Schedule of games and actual times of games will be forthcoming shortly.

There will be a $3.00 admission fee.
You may contact the PRO of the BVI Amateur Volleyball Association Cleave Farrington at 542-1007; email address cleavef@gmail.com for more information

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National Record, World Jr. Championships qualifier highlights BVIAA meet

February 3, 2014 by

By: Dean Greenaway

TrevNelA National Record in the Shot Put and an IAAF World Jr. Championships 200m qualifier for two 2013 Carifta Games silver medalists, highlighted the 5th BVI Athletics Association Development Series meet on Saturday at the A. O. Shirley Recreation Grounds.

Two weeks after claiming the National Shot Put Record, Top Notch Track Club’s Trevia Gumbs cracked the 13m barrier in her pet event for the first time in her career, when she heaved the 4K ball 13.03m (42’9”). The mark eclipsed the 12.90 she threw on January 18. [Read more…]

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Team BVI Youth Sailors Make Their Mark At Martin Luther King Regatta

January 27, 2014 by

DSC07916[14]The weekend of January 18, BVI Sailors once again travelled off island to compete in international events, this time visiting our close neighbors the US Virgin Islands.

BVI was represented in 4 classes of boats and 5 divisions at this competition and sailing for the first time without the support of their long time coach Omari Scott who has now taken up a position in the USA

Our youngest and newest racing sailors- and the driving goal of all our programs teaching sailing in the BVI is called the Green Fleet and they sail in the Optimist Dinghy which can be sailed up to 15 yrs of age.  This event showed two new and three total green fleet kids representing BVI including Noah Pierce, Hayden Saunders and Max Reshetiloff. The green fleet doesn’t focus on scores but the kids all had exception races and their enthusiasm is very hog for continuing their development.  I hope more kids join soon!

In the same class of boat but racing on the Opti Champ course out in the rougher waters south of St. Thomas the BVI was represented by sailors in two age divisions not having any older kids currently racing opti- but in the blue 11-12 age division Amelie Clark took 4th, Thad Lettsome took 3rd, Sam Child’s 2nd and Rayne Duff 1st ; all sailors having won one race overall as well. Nathan’s Haycraft took 2nd in the White 10-under division. The conditions were very challenging with relatively light winds on lumpy seas.

On the larger boats for older sailors we had Matthew Oliver representing our nation in the Laser class and he finished in 2nd place having sailed very consistently well.

Sam Morrell has moved from Opti to the two-man 420 Class in addition to working hard on his campaign in the Byte class preparing for the youth Olympic Games 2014 and sailed this regatta with Daniel Peteovic as crew, placing 2nd in the 420 class after 11 races having also taken a first overall in one race.

The BVI is going through a lot of transition for the racing sailors between aging into new fleets or classes of boats , and having lots their regular coaching for a short time until the new coach arrives from Ireland but they are persevering and showing they really know their stuff competing well all on their own and we look forward to a strong year ahead.

Stay tuned for news as the Opti Kids train and prepare for South and North American championships prior to worlds in October and also as Sam Morrell continues on his endeavor to represent the BVI at the Youth Olympics this summer.

Full results from this weekend can be seen at : http://www.regattanetwork.com/event/7586#_newsroom+results

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Carifta Games 400M Silver Medalist Tunes Up For 800M Debut

January 27, 2014 by

600mA day’s delay because of inclement weather and a rains during the early part of competition on Saturday morning, affected the overall number of participants but did not diminish the competitive juices in the BVI Athletics Association 4th Development Series Meet, that saw two St. Croix participants joining athletes from St. Thomas, Tortola and Virgin Gorda in action. [Read more…]

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Sukhu, Brownsdon Kick Off Dive BVI 5K Series With Victories

January 21, 2014 by

By: Dean Greenaway

RaviRavi Sukhu and Kathleen Brownsdon kicked off the 2014 BVI Road Racing season in Virgin Gorda on Saturday with victories, in the Dive BVI 5K Series that attracted 61 participants.

Sukhu held off Virgin Gorda’s Emrol Amsterdam who was 14 seconds back while Brownsdon was followed by Kim Takeuchi.

“It went very well and we had an awesome turnout and nice representation from Tortola and everybody had a great time,” said race director Casey McNutt. “We had 61 participants and we highlighted the BVI Cancer Society for this race, did a drive for them, people came out and we raised $400 from the participants. Everyone had a great spirit and it was a fun race.”

Each race of the series a donation will be collected for a charitable organization with the upcoming race on Feb 8 assisting the Virgin Gorda Animal Rescue and Control Organization. Others to benefit are VISAR and the Lions Club.

The Dive BVI 5K Series will be followed by the Dive BVI 10K Series and the 3rd Virgin Gorda Half Marathon on May 17. Road races on Tortola starts on March 8 with the Blenheim Trust 5k Series, which is followed by the Ceres Juices 10K Series, the HLSCC College Classic Series and the 9th BVI Half Marathon.

Final Results: Male: 1. Ravi Sukhu, 20 minutes and 04 seconds.  2. Emrol Amsterdam, 20.18. 3. Pablo Olarte, 21.22. 4. Zebalon McLean, 21.40. 5. Curwin Andrews, 22.17. 6. Keith Williams, 22.20. 7. Joe McIvor, 22.26. 8. Patrick Ormond, 22.44. 9. Charles Kerins, 23.18. 10. Jonathan McCarthy, 23.48. 11. Jeremiah Abrams, 24.54. 12. Alex Matas, 25.20. 13. Gareth Watkins, 26.17. 14. Federico Biggo, 26.17. 15. Donald George, 27.07. 16. Anthony Winchester, 28.27. 17. Wilbert Samuel, 29.39. 18. Stephen Beard, 29.56. 19. David Payne, 31.04. 20. Marc Taggart, 31.57. 21. Mel Wicks, 32.14. 22. Dave Ellis, 34.05. 23. Zoltan Birinyi, 39.35. 24. Ian Roy. 41.08. 25. Deandre Thomas. 42.31. 26. Jhonny van der Werff, 43.46. 27. Jeff Nichols, 46.16. 28. Rupert Raven, 46.16. 29. Atlas Van Sickle, 48.40.

Female: 1. Kathleen Brownsdon, 21.41. 2. Kim Takeuchi, 22.51. 3. NiMade Oniash, 24.01. 4. Lara Leyton, 24.31. 5. Berenice George, 24.32. 6. Nicola Iuso, 24.39. 7. Sara Hayes, 24.44. 8. Kay Reddy, 25.08. 9. Vivian Toro, 25.30. 10. Jenny McIvor, 26.14, 11. Kate Littlefield, 29.27. 12. Chislaine Hoogendijk, 29.36. 13. Vicki Woodill, 29.50. 14. Olympia Grassi, 29.54. 15. Guendalina Buzzanca, 29.55. 16. AJ Syrrett, 30.57. 17. Debbie Ridgeway, 31.30. 18. Claire Burke, 32.25. 19. Tara Murphy, 35.34. 20. Annete Wicks, 37.32. 21. Chris Yates, 43.14, 22. Becca Knight, 43.46. 23. Laticia Lennard, 44.52. 24. Luana Casoni, 45.42. 25. Caitlin Nichols, 46.16. 26. Pierrete Agen, 48.00. 27. Debbie Bruce, 48.10. 28. Christine Goschler, 48.17. 29. Arlyn Gordon, 48.40. 30. Betty Paradisi, 51.37. 31. Lynne Hawkins, 51.37. 32. Beth Besom, 51.37.

 

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