Ris­ing cy­cling tal­ent Kyrah Williams pro­duced a new per­son­al best time on day two of the 2025 UCI Ju­nior Track World Cham­pi­onships in Apel­doorn, Nether­lands, on Thurs­day, but she could not progress be­yond the 1/16 round of the Women’s match sprints.

T&T’s women’s vol­ley­ballers sealed a place in the fi­nal of the Caribbean Zon­al Vol­ley­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (CA­ZO­VA) Se­nior Cham­pi­onships on Thurs­day with a 3-0 vic­to­ry over re­gion­al pow­er­house and de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Ja­maica in the semi­fi­nal at the Kendal GL Isaacs Na­tion­al Gym­na­si­um in New Prov­i­dence, Nas­sau, Ba­hamas.

T&T’s sprint quar­tet of Alexxe Hen­ry, Shani­qua Bas­combe, Sier­ra Joseph, and Janae De Gannes earned this coun­try its 11th medal of the Ju­nior Pan Amer­i­can Games in Asun­cion, Paraguay on Thurs­day night, when they sprint­ed to the sil­ver medal in the Women’s 4x100 me­tre fi­nal at the Ath­let­ic Sta­di­um.

T&T’s Se­nior Men’s Foot­ball Team head coach, Dwight Yorke, has de­clared that his squad will be pre­pared for the daunt­ing chal­lenge of the 2026 World Cup qual­i­fiers next month, while si­mul­ta­ne­ous­ly is­su­ing a stern dis­missal of the ex­ter­nal noise from crit­ics.

NORTH SOUND, An­tigua—In a heart-stop­ping fin­ish un­der the An­tiguan lights on Wednes­day night, the An­tigua & Bar­bu­da Fal­cons clinched a nail-bit­ing eight-run vic­to­ry over the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers, cat­a­pult­ing them­selves to the top of the Re­pub­lic Bank CPL ta­ble in the process.

Jaden Marchan de­liv­ered a 45.80 sec­onds per­for­mance in the fi­nal of the men’s 400 me­tres of the Ju­nior Pan Amer­i­can Games in Asun­cion, Paraguay, to seal a sil­ver medal for T&T on Wednes­day.

USA-based T&T swim­mer Liam Car­ring­ton missed out on his first chance at a medal at the World Aquat­ic Ju­nior Swim­ming Cham­pi­onship when he fin­ished in the sev­enth spot of eight fi­nal­ists in the men’s 100 m back­stroke fi­nal in Otopeni, Ro­ma­nia, yes­ter­day.

Az­izi Clarke of Jew­els SC helped her­self to a hat-trick as the T&T girls’ un­der-14 na­tion­al team ham­mered their T&T High Per­for­mance coun­ter­parts 7-0 to end their Tier I Caribbean Foot­ball Union’s Girls U-14 Chal­lenge Se­ries on a high on Wednes­day.

The T&T girls’ un­der-14 na­tion­al team and the T&T High Per­for­mance (HP) girls’ un­der-14 squad both end­ed in the cel­lar spots of their re­spec­tive groups in Tier I when the round-robin stage of the Caribbean Foot­ball Union’s Girls U-14 Chal­lenge Se­ries end­ed yes­ter­day.

T&T’s Cen­tral FC will kick off their Group A cam­paign in the third edi­tion of the Con­ca­caf Caribbean Cup cam­paign away to O&M FC at the Es­ta­dio Fe­lix Sanchez, San­to Domin­go, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic on Wednes­day night from 8 pm.

Shock and sad­ness cov­ered the lo­cal bas­ket­ball and net­ball fra­ter­ni­ties on Sat­ur­day night when news broke that Sharon “Bones” Cas­tana­da, who wore the red, white and black na­tion­al colours for al­most three decades on both the bas­ket­ball and net­ball courts, had passed away at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal. She was 57.

Lead­er­ship is nev­er an easy cross to bear, and no lead­er­ship de­ci­sion made is per­fect. Times and cir­cum­stances change; they aren’t sta­t­ic pa­ra­me­ters. The re­cent an­nounce­ment by the 2028 Los An­ge­les Sum­mer Olympics Lo­cal Or­gan­is­ing Com­mit­tee (LA2028) re­flects an im­por­tant change to the es­tab­lished sta­tus quo and what can be con­sid­ered the ac­cept­ed nor­mal.