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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><SPAN class=TopStory>GC Foster dominate JISA awards</SPAN>
<SPAN class=Subheadline></SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD>Observer Reporter
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
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</TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>Ventley Brown (left) of GC Foster representing Edwin Murray, accepts the award for outstanding contribution to inter-collegiate sport from Norris Davis, inter-collegiate president. (Photo: Everard Owen)</SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>GC Foster College of Physical Education and Sports dominated the Jamaica Inter-collegiate Sports Association (JISA) Awards ceremony on Saturday at the Rex Nettleford Hall (Mona) where they copped eight awards to beat the University of the West Indies (UWI) and Knox Community College with three each.<P class=StoryText align=justify>GC Foster topped both sections of Track and Field Athletics, male and female football and netball, as the UWI took the female basketball and volleyball and male cricket. The University of Technology (UTech) won male and female hockey and champion male athlete, as Knox won male and female Track and Field athletics and Division Two football.<P class=StoryText align=justify>UTech's Kaliese Spencer (national junior 400mH record holder and World Junior 400m hurdles champion) was adjudged the top Inter-collegiate international and local athlete of the year.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Edwin Murray, vice-principal of GC Foster College was rewarded for his invaluable contribution to inter-collegiate sports, where he has led several delegations abroad, been manager of intercol teams to World University Games, has served as vice-president, special projects among others.
Guest speaker Gary Allen, deputy managing director of RJR Communications Group, referred to Jamaica's spending of an estimated US$140 million and an additional J$600 million on infrastructure in preparation for Cricket World Cup in 2007, challenged JISA to seek ways to utilise these facilities so that they do not become "white elephants".<P class=StoryText align=justify>He cited "105 registered foreign tertiary institutions operating profitably in Jamaica today. There is room for significant development of inter-collegiate synergies, activities and industries".<P class=StoryText align=justify>"We have a stage set for the development of a set of much broader collegiate products and events that are economically viable and which will involve more college institutions in Jamaica, institutions from the developed North American marketplace and those from the developing Eastern Caribbean markets.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"Develop a viable arrangement where you can expand your present cadre of collegiate activities to develop more viable or higher profiled events where you can attract rights fees, major sponsorship deals and tremendous media exposure.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"Draft into your collegiate events those members of the 104 foreign tertiary institutions that are not apart of what you now do to reduce your present expenses, increase your revenues, add prestige and value to your every collegiate event," Allen recommended.
He also recommended that competitions be developed at a regional tertiary level, inviting "Caribbean teams in basketball, netball and other sports. Get US college basketball teams to meet Jamaican teams in winter months in the US, playing in sunshine in Jamaica. Invite college teams from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales to add Jamaica to their partnership list of places where in their winter months they escape the bitter cold and enjoy Jamaican climes as training camps or involved in sporting activities."<P class=StoryText align=justify>He c
<SPAN class=Subheadline></SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD>Observer Reporter
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width=350 align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>
</TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>Ventley Brown (left) of GC Foster representing Edwin Murray, accepts the award for outstanding contribution to inter-collegiate sport from Norris Davis, inter-collegiate president. (Photo: Everard Owen)</SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>GC Foster College of Physical Education and Sports dominated the Jamaica Inter-collegiate Sports Association (JISA) Awards ceremony on Saturday at the Rex Nettleford Hall (Mona) where they copped eight awards to beat the University of the West Indies (UWI) and Knox Community College with three each.<P class=StoryText align=justify>GC Foster topped both sections of Track and Field Athletics, male and female football and netball, as the UWI took the female basketball and volleyball and male cricket. The University of Technology (UTech) won male and female hockey and champion male athlete, as Knox won male and female Track and Field athletics and Division Two football.<P class=StoryText align=justify>UTech's Kaliese Spencer (national junior 400mH record holder and World Junior 400m hurdles champion) was adjudged the top Inter-collegiate international and local athlete of the year.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Edwin Murray, vice-principal of GC Foster College was rewarded for his invaluable contribution to inter-collegiate sports, where he has led several delegations abroad, been manager of intercol teams to World University Games, has served as vice-president, special projects among others. Guest speaker Gary Allen, deputy managing director of RJR Communications Group, referred to Jamaica's spending of an estimated US$140 million and an additional J$600 million on infrastructure in preparation for Cricket World Cup in 2007, challenged JISA to seek ways to utilise these facilities so that they do not become "white elephants".<P class=StoryText align=justify>He cited "105 registered foreign tertiary institutions operating profitably in Jamaica today. There is room for significant development of inter-collegiate synergies, activities and industries".<P class=StoryText align=justify>"We have a stage set for the development of a set of much broader collegiate products and events that are economically viable and which will involve more college institutions in Jamaica, institutions from the developed North American marketplace and those from the developing Eastern Caribbean markets.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"Develop a viable arrangement where you can expand your present cadre of collegiate activities to develop more viable or higher profiled events where you can attract rights fees, major sponsorship deals and tremendous media exposure.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"Draft into your collegiate events those members of the 104 foreign tertiary institutions that are not apart of what you now do to reduce your present expenses, increase your revenues, add prestige and value to your every collegiate event," Allen recommended.
He also recommended that competitions be developed at a regional tertiary level, inviting "Caribbean teams in basketball, netball and other sports. Get US college basketball teams to meet Jamaican teams in winter months in the US, playing in sunshine in Jamaica. Invite college teams from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales to add Jamaica to their partnership list of places where in their winter months they escape the bitter cold and enjoy Jamaican climes as training camps or involved in sporting activities."<P class=StoryText align=justify>He c
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