Manchester High School

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.

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's Natoya Goule hit her best form at last weekend's Gibson Relays to pilot her school to two Championships titles.

The impressive Goule brought the entire National Stadium to its feet on the final leg of the 4x800m when she powered her school to victory after collecting the baton in third place, some 10 metres behind the leaders.

The wins were sweet, not only for the girls from Mandeville, but the entire Jamaica, as they beat two highly touted Team Bickle USA quartets.

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PHILADELPHIA, USA - Jamaican Boys' high schools completed their second clean sweep of the Championships of America's titles in three years at the Penn Relays after winning the 4x100, 4x400 and 4x800m events on yesterday's final day of the 114th staging on a chilly day here yesterday. Cheered on by thousands of Jamaicans in the second highest Saturday turnout of 49, 831 (three day total of 113,392), Calabar won the 4x100m (40.74 seconds), St Jago took the 4x400m (3 minutes 15.66secs), while Manchester High won their first ever relay event at the meet, taking the 4x800m in 7 minutes, 43.22secs.