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Belize’s Under-eighteen Boys Basketball team left the country today to compete in a tournament in Akron, Ohio. The Dru Joyce Classic runs from the twenty-seventh to the twenty-ninth of April and the all-star team is hoping to be scouted by college coaches so that they can get athletic scholarships. The last time Belize participated in […]
Written on April 24, 2018 | Posted in
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As of news time, a team of seven young men from Stann Creek Ecumenical College in Dangriga Town are on their way to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to participate in the world-famous Penn Relays later this week. The Penn Relay Carnival, as it is also known, is the oldest and largest track and field competition in the […]
Written on April 23, 2018 | Posted in
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend sporting activities….]
Written on April 23, 2018 | Posted in
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Elections at the Cycling Federation of Belize are scheduled for next Saturday, but there is growing concern that all is not above board. The federation is currently led by former U.D.P. councilor Dion Leslie who is seeking election now as a vice president to Orson Butler. The contending team is led by Alexi Ordonez, a […]
Written on April 20, 2018 | Posted in
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Their welcome home was not a big deal, but the Under-fifteen Boys National Basketball Team has every reason to be proud. Beating the odds, the team came back with bronze medals from the COCABA Championship held in El Salvador from the eleventh to fifteenth April. The team placed third and two players got special recognition for […]
A few hundred high school students converged on the Civic Center this afternoon in somewhat of a dry run. The facility opened its doors this afternoon for a pair of pre-exhibition games, ahead of an official launch on April thirtieth. Minister of Sports Patrick Faber told us more. Patrick Faber, Minister of Sports “We […]
Written on April 17, 2018 | Posted in
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Most of Belize’s delegation to the Commonwealth Games concluded on Sunday in Gold Coast, Australia, returned to Belize this afternoon. There were no medals to show off, but the athletes who participated in cycling, table tennis, triathlon and athletics say they enjoyed testing their limits against some of the best in the world. The cycling […]
Written on April 16, 2018 | Posted in
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The table tennis team of Devesh Hukmani, Terry Su and Rohit Pagarani were also participating in the Commonwealths for the first time and faced some of the very best in their field. The results went as expected but the boys say they want another shot. Rohit Pagarani, Table Tennis, Commonwealth Games “This was my […]
Written on April 16, 2018 | Posted in
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend sporting activities….]
Written on April 16, 2018 | Posted in
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The Football Federation of Belize kicks off the second National Amateur Women’s Football League tournament this weekend. Eight teams from north to south are participating, in the hunt for Belize’s place in the regional inter-club women’s championship in September in Panama. The Federation is paying most of the costs to organize the tournament but its […]
Written on April 13, 2018 | Posted in
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Belize’s Under-fifteen Boys National Basketball Team left the country today en route to El Salvador to play in the COCABA championships. The contingent of twelve players and three officials will be in El Salvador for the next five days of competition and return on Monday. The team will play their first game on Wednesday against […]
Written on April 10, 2018 | Posted in
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend sporting activities….]
Written on April 9, 2018 | Posted in
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Belize’s youth athletes continue to impress on the international stage. Tonight we feature a group of young ballers from the City, known as Future Shock. Their opponents in the recent Campeche Youth Basketball championship felt the shock right away as the team swept to victory and maintain an enviable unbeaten record nationally and regionally. The […]
Written on April 5, 2018 | Posted in
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For the next eleven days in Gold Coast, Australia, the focus will be on sports as the members of the Commonwealth of Nations meet in friendly sporting combat. Belize is in the thick of it with twelve athletes participating in four disciplines. Head of Mission Giovanni Alamilla of the Belize Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association […]
Written on April 5, 2018 | Posted in
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The twenty-first Commonwealth Games gets underway later tonight in the land “Down Under” – Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. The Commonwealths are the second largest multi-sport event after the Olympics and held about halfway during each Olympiad. The Belize Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association has selected thirty-six-year-old cyclist, Alicia Thompson as Belize’s flag bearer for the […]
Written on April 3, 2018 | Posted in
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It has been said, only half-jokingly, that in Belize the Easter weekend is not as fun if a Belizean doesn’t win the Holy Saturday Cross Country Cycling Classic. Indeed the nation’s longest-running sporting event, coming after the quiet of Good Friday, is the signal of a weekend of fun. So as eighty-plus Belizean riders took […]
Written on April 3, 2018 | Posted in
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It is the Holy Grail of Belizean sport, but for the last four years – if 2015 Champion Justin Williams’ Belizean nationality is discounted – foreigners have dominated the Holy Saturday Cross Country Cycling Classic. Two-time and defending champion, Guatemalan Alejandro Padilla Miranda, is unavailable for this year’s event. The rest of the field consists […]
Written on March 29, 2018 | Posted in
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Two volleyball athletes attached to the Belize National Team are receiving an opportunity of a lifetime. Twenty-three-year-old Bryton Codd and team captain Karym Coleman have been handpicked by a Canadian coach and awarded full athletics scholarships to Briercrest in Saskatchewan, Canada. Today inside the conference room at the Marion Jones Sporting Complex, both athletes signed […]
Written on March 28, 2018 | Posted in
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday [Highlights of the weekend sporting activities…]
Written on March 26, 2018 | Posted in
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The national football team played its first international game on Thursday night. Though just a friendly match, the team showed its mettle when it took on Grenada’s Spice Boyz. It all leads to the CONCACAF Nation’s League set to commence in September. Once the ball got rolling at the Isidoro Beaton Stadium, the Belize Jaguars […]
Written on March 23, 2018 | Posted in
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The members of the national a selection team were introduced to the media. The group is a mix of well known footballers such as Ian Gaynair, Woodrow West, Dalton Eiley and Deon McCaulay. But there are also some new blood recruited from football clubs from across the country. The team will test its mettle against […]
Written on March 21, 2018 | Posted in
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The Belize National Team has been actively preparing for the past four weeks in anticipation of the international friendly match on Thursday at the Isidoro Beaton Stadium, in Belmopan. That match begins at eight p.m. But even before the teams take to the field, News Five found out how prepared both teams are. We spoke […]
Written on March 21, 2018 | Posted in
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend sporting activities…]
Written on March 19, 2018 | Posted in
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend sporting activities….]
Written on March 13, 2018 | Posted in
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Fifty-three teams paddled away at the start of the annual Belikin La Ruta Maya Canoe River Challenge in the Macal River in San Ignacio this morning. Over the next four days, the fittest teams will cover about one hundred and forty miles ending in Belize City on Monday. The first leg concluded at Banana Bank […]
Written on March 9, 2018 | Posted in
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