Manchester High School

 The Florida Chapter of the Manchester High School Alumni Association presents the All Schools Soccer Tournament & Jamboree (2010). Click the image above to see the entire flyer.

Manchester High's Alumni team performed very well in the recent Alumni Tournament in Lauderhill, Florida. Our first game we lost 1-0 to KC, then tied ST GEORGES 0-0. The third game we won 1-0 over Calabar advancing to the quarterfinals where we beat Wolmers 1-0. We advanced to the semi-finals losing on penalties to eventual champions Ruseas. I've been told Calabar will be hosting a similar tournament in December, also in South Florida and hopefully we will also enter a competitive team. My club team trains every Thursday at Pine Island Park in Plantation, Florida at 8.30pm, and any MHS alumni that wants to train/run in preparation for that tournament and others is welcome. Just text me, Carey James (305-951-5498) around 7, at which time I'll know if the field is open (re: weather). Please pass on to others.

 

IN A world that measures the confidence of a young man by how proudly he can promote his own interests, how skilfully he can walk with his pants below his waist, or how many girls he can acquire in a night, 17-year-old Darren Neill Gooden is an inspiring enigma.

Anyone who glimpses Gooden, as he walks home from school with his head bowed, a huge knapsack on his back, and an enormous French dictionary in his hand, could easily guess that the boy has a 'liking' for his books; however, few would imagine that he has already been accepted to study at some of America's finest universities.

Gooden, an upper-sixth-form student at Manchester High School in Mandeville, has been awarded a full scholarship to study mathematics and computer sciences at Yale University - one of the oldest and most prestigious Ivy League universities in the United States. The scholarship, which covers tuition, board, books and personal supplies, is valued at approximately US$54,602 (J$4,804,976) per year!

That, however, is just the tip of the iceberg.

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Here are some photos submitted by Ian Edwards of the teams arrival at Baltimore on April 22, 2009

Edwin Allen High's Gayon Evans and Brandon Tomlinson of Manchester won the individual prizes at the inaugural staging of the Nestle Milo Grand Junior Prix awards ceremony yesterday.

In fact, schools from the central region copped the four awards worth $500,000 at Nestle Jamaica's New Kingston office yesterday.

Edwin Allen pocketed $100,000 after Evans topped the Milo Junior Grand Prix 100m event for girls with 44 points. She won all of the five races, while getting the last one by default as the other competitors failed to turn up.

Evans chalked up eight points for the penultimate race at the Gibson Relays after only two athletes turned up and the points were shared.

Tomlinson won the boys section with 40 points aftert winning three of the five races, and Manchester High garnered $100,000.

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Manchester High Schoolblew everyone away in 2008 at the Penn Relays in the 4x800M boys when they ran away with the Championship of America title for the middle distance thriller on the final day of the meet.  They will not be able to defend their title this year because some of the team members are no longer in school.

 However, the girl’s team is on fire this year after losing only one (the first one) 4x800M Relay this year and copping the first MILO Junior Grand Prix in the process.  The girl’s team includes Kimberley Brown, Neisha Morris, Charlene Brown and Natoya Goule on anchor.

Manchester will compete in the 4x100M, 4x400M and the 4x800M in the girl’s section and the 4x100M in the boys section.  All the girl’s team are expected to do well even if they do not all win gold.  There is hope that the boys will give a good showing, as well.  The boy’s team will be led by Brandon Tomlinson who copped the 100M title in the boys section of the inaugural MILO Junior Grand Prix.

The Manchester High School Alumni’s inaugural activity for this year, 2009 was a “Pool Lyme” planned and executed by the executive body of the Manchester High School Past Students Association (MHSPSA) Kingston Tertiary Chapter. This social was held at the University of the West Indies swimming pool on February 7, 2009. The event was scheduled to run in the time slot 4:00pm to 7:00pm but the time was later extended to 8:00pm.

Sheri-Ann Peckham of Manchester High School is "likkle" but as we would say in Jamaica, "shi tallawah".

This 16-year-old outscored her peers in the 2008 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) Examinations, gaining 12 ones.

Yesterday she walked away with the Jamaica Association of Principals of Secondary Schools (JAPSS) prestigious title of best overall performer in CSEC.

"I am definitely happy because I worked hard and prayed a lot and that has paid off in the end," Peckham told The Gleaner yesterday, following a Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) splendid awards ceremony at St George's College in Kingston.

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