103,000 dollars will be given to any school whose athlete breaks a record in the sprint hurdles events at the ISSA Grace Kennedy Boys and Girls Athletics Championships, in celebration of the 103rd Anniversary of Title Sponsosr Grace Kennedy .
The incentives were unveiled by Grace Kennedy CEO Frank James at the launch of the 2025 staging of Champs on Wednesday evening at Stadium East .
James also revealed that for this year , Grace sponsorship of the five days Mega event is a staggering 104 million dollars, with an additional 81 million dollars with the inputs from Grace foods, Grace Money Services and First Global Bank to bring the total investment to 185 million dollars.
Meanwhile , the Don Wheby Sportsmanship Award valued at 250 thousand dollars and a new scholarship from the Grace Kennedy Foundation valued at half a million dollars were also unveiled by the new CEO.
The March 25 to 29 staging of ‘Champs’ will see a record 118 boys teams in action along with 117 girls teams, with 2500 athletes participating.
The honourees this year will be former athletes Bertland Cameron and Marlene Lewin-Hawthorne, coach Neil Harrison and official Gregory Hamilton.
A total of 86 finals will be contested to decide the 2025 Boys Champions and Girls Champions.
Kingston College and Edwin Allen high are the defending champions on the boys and girls champions respectively.
