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Our athletes are students first and athletes second, says CC principal
BY PAUL A REID Observer West Writer reidp@jamaicaobserver.com
Thursday, September 22, 2011
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ROSE HALL, St James - Denham McIntyre, the principal of the 115 year-old Montego Bay- based Cornwall College says the institution will continue to make academics its number one priority, instead of "success on the field of sports."
"Our athletes are students first and athletes second," McIntyre told the 'Men of Might' awards ceremony and dinner/dance held at the Holiday Inn SunSpree Resort on Saturday night, as the school's weeklong celebration of Homecoming 2011 came to an end.
Just hours after Cornwall College lost 1-2 to St James High in an ISSA/Gatorade/Digicel daCosta Cup Zone A game at the Montego Bay Sports Complex, the headmaster told the packed ballroom,"we will continue to place premium value on academics and play by the rules," adding that, "this principled position is non- negotiable with the current administration, because it will not be win at all cost." The school's athletes, he argued, must learn to be moral agents.
In reminding the audience of Cornwall's history in sports, McIntyre who is also the chairman of the daCosta Cup committee said, "let us know that old champions do not die, they review, rejuvenate and when destiny determines, return as victors."
The all boys Cornwall College has done fairly well in sports over the years, but it has been performing poorly in several sporting competitions in recent times.
In football, for example, the school has won a record 11 daCosta Cup and seven Ben Francis KO titles, as well as 11 Olivier Shield titles. It was until the last few years, among the dominant track and field school in western Jamaica and was featured prominently in swimming, tennis and cricket several years ago.
McIntyre on Saturday night urged the gathering to "resolve to fully participate in the rebirth of Cornwall College and remember that the synergy of the past, present and future Cornwallians will make us mindful that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts."
"Synergy is not only a part, it is most catalytic, most empowering, most unifying and the most exciting ingredient," he emphasised.
Added McIntyre: "Long may the ideals and the cause of Cornwall College foment acts of loyalty and renewed commitment in our hearts for the school on the hill beside the sea that convert boys into men of might."
Our athletes are students first and athletes second, says CC principal
BY PAUL A REID Observer West Writer reidp@jamaicaobserver.com
Thursday, September 22, 2011
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ROSE HALL, St James - Denham McIntyre, the principal of the 115 year-old Montego Bay- based Cornwall College says the institution will continue to make academics its number one priority, instead of "success on the field of sports."
"Our athletes are students first and athletes second," McIntyre told the 'Men of Might' awards ceremony and dinner/dance held at the Holiday Inn SunSpree Resort on Saturday night, as the school's weeklong celebration of Homecoming 2011 came to an end.
Just hours after Cornwall College lost 1-2 to St James High in an ISSA/Gatorade/Digicel daCosta Cup Zone A game at the Montego Bay Sports Complex, the headmaster told the packed ballroom,"we will continue to place premium value on academics and play by the rules," adding that, "this principled position is non- negotiable with the current administration, because it will not be win at all cost." The school's athletes, he argued, must learn to be moral agents.
In reminding the audience of Cornwall's history in sports, McIntyre who is also the chairman of the daCosta Cup committee said, "let us know that old champions do not die, they review, rejuvenate and when destiny determines, return as victors."
The all boys Cornwall College has done fairly well in sports over the years, but it has been performing poorly in several sporting competitions in recent times.
In football, for example, the school has won a record 11 daCosta Cup and seven Ben Francis KO titles, as well as 11 Olivier Shield titles. It was until the last few years, among the dominant track and field school in western Jamaica and was featured prominently in swimming, tennis and cricket several years ago.
McIntyre on Saturday night urged the gathering to "resolve to fully participate in the rebirth of Cornwall College and remember that the synergy of the past, present and future Cornwallians will make us mindful that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts."
"Synergy is not only a part, it is most catalytic, most empowering, most unifying and the most exciting ingredient," he emphasised.
Added McIntyre: "Long may the ideals and the cause of Cornwall College foment acts of loyalty and renewed commitment in our hearts for the school on the hill beside the sea that convert boys into men of might."
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