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Garreth looks forward to the competition in college

After participating in a few Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) Basketball Tournaments this summer, Garreth Edgecombe is eagerly looking forward to competing at the collegiate level.

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

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BLTA hosts successful International Tennis Federation National School Officiating Course

AMIDST the loosening of the COVID-19 restrictions, the Bahamas Lawn Tennis Association hosted a successful International Tennis Federation’s National School Officiating Course at the National Tennis Centre over the weekend.

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Cousins making their presence felt at Nationals

WHEN they are not playing each other or teaming up together in doubles, close cousins Saphire and Breann Ferguson are on the sidelines cheering for one another. The daughters of two brothers - Barron and Bjorn Ferguson - recalled how they got introduced to the sport of tennis by their grandfather Roscoe Ferguson, whom they call “pappa.”

Silver, bronze glory

By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net A first, second, fifth and pair of eighth place finishes in the finals, including a series of season's best performances for the Bahamas, were recorded at the IAAF World Indoor Championships

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Newman brothers in Giorgio Baldacci Open

When the Bahamas Lawn Tennis Association’s Annual Giorgio Baldacci Open is held next week, brothers Baker and Spencer Newman are looking to return and put on a show. The tournament is scheduled to begin on Monday and conclude on Saturday with the top men and women tennis players participating in singles and doubles. The BLTA intends to use the tournament as the trials for the men’s Davis Cup team and the ladies’ Fed Cup team.

Sports news in brief

Sports news in brief BASKETBALL NPBA UPDATE THE New Providence Basketball Association is expected to conclude its regular season at CI Gibson gym this weekend before starting their postseason Monday. Tonight's schedule 7:30pm - Y-Care Wreckers vs Commonw

Sports news in brief

Sports news in brief BASKETBALL NPBA UPDATE THE New Providence Basketball Association is expected to conclude its regular season at CI Gibson gym this weekend before starting their postseason Monday. Tonight's schedule 7:30pm - Y-Care Wreckers vs Commonw

Sports news in brief

Sports news in brief BASKETBALL NPBA UPDATE THE New Providence Basketball Association is expected to conclude its regular season at CI Gibson gym this weekend before starting their postseason Monday. Tonight's schedule 7:30pm - Y-Care Wreckers vs Commonw

Sports news in brief

Sports news in brief BASKETBALL NPBA UPDATE THE New Providence Basketball Association is expected to conclude its regular season at CI Gibson gym this weekend before starting their postseason Monday. Tonight's schedule 7:30pm - Y-Care Wreckers vs Commonw

NPWBA best-of-three playoffs to begin this weekend

By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net WITH the regular season completed, the New Providence Women's Basketball Association is all set to begin its best-of-three playoffs, featuring the three previous championship teams, on Satur

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Miller-Uibo, Gardiner don’t make nominees’ list for athlete of year

Unlike the two years, no Bahamian athletes made the list of nominees for the World Athletics’ 2020 Male or Female Athlete of the Year.

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Briontae Riley to play pro in France

FROM the time she picked up a basketball under the supervision of coach Varel Davis at CH Reeves Junior High School, Briontae Riley knew that she was going to be something special. Thanks to Bahamian Jaraun ‘Kino’ Burrows and his Raw Talent organisation, the versatile multi-talented Riley is heading to Grans, France, to play professionally for the Basket Club Gransois.

New 'king' of the quarter-mile

By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net THE BAAA purposely switched the men's 400 final to the last event on the Scotiabank National Open Track and Field Championships' calendar and Demetrius Pinder delivered a victory for the his

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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.

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