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JOA president Christopher Samuda promises Jamaica will eventually compete in Olympic football

By admin | football | Comments are Closed | 11 March, 2022 | 0
Jamaica Olympic Association President Christopher Samuda hopes Jamaica can compete in football at the Olympics one day. “The Olympic Association understands that our role in sport is not only to change the game which we’re already in, but to transform it and to have, in certain respects, a renaissance so that generations can experience whatRead more

JOA – Building People, Building Sport from the Grassroots

By admin | JOA News, Local News | Comments are Closed | 8 March, 2022 | 0
The success of sports is inextricably linked with the development of people, and the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) is transforming the game by pursuing a strategy of building capacity and creating opportunities for its members and stakeholders. Several presidents, secretaries-general, and executive members have embraced the vision of the apex body. They are pursuing internationalRead more

JOA’s Financial Performance – Bankable and Groundbreaking

By admin | JOA News, Local News | Comments are Closed | 30 January, 2022 | 0
 The financial performance of Jamaica’s governing body for Olympic and non-Olympic sports continues to raise the bar in demonstrating prudence, innovation, investment savvy and commercial value.The annual general meeting of the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA), held in December last year at the Courtleigh Corporate Centre to consider its 2020 financial performance, was more than anRead more

JOA Remains Confident in Growing Jamaica’s Winter Olympic Sports Programme

By admin | Bobsleigh And Skeleton, JOA News, Olympics | Comments are Closed | 23 January, 2022 | 0
It is an open secret that the present administration of the Jamaica Olympic Association, JOA, is creating “heat waves” in winter sports as it fulfills one of its mandates of growing and strengthening Jamaica’s representation in the winter Olympic Games with a competitive edge. Although without a medal for the last eight winter Games, JOA President,Read more

Another International Partnership for the JOA

By admin | JOA News, Jump Rope | 0 comment | 23 January, 2022 | 0
The strength of the brand of the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) and the value of partnering with Jamaica’s governing body for Olympic and non-Olympic sports have not escaped stakeholders of the sporting world.The latest global sport organization to initiate a partnership with the JOA is the International Jump Rope Union (IJRU) established in 1973 asRead more

JOA Building Coaching Capacity

By admin | Beijing 2022, JOA News | 0 comment | 20 January, 2022 | 0
A record number of coaches, who were last year registered by the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) for a rigorous hi-level coaches’ course hosted by the Pan Am Sports Organization (PASO), successfully completed and are on course to achieve international certification.Coaches from several sports including handball, badminton, judo, taekwondo, gymnastics, baseball, chess, volleyball, lawn tennis andRead more

Jamaica Olympic Association’s Equipment Grant Scheme bearing sweet fruit

By admin | Aquatic Sports, Bobsleigh And Skeleton, Cricket, Golf, Gymnastics, Wrestling | 0 comment | 11 January, 2022 | 0
The initiative by the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) to invest millions into its equipment grant is bearing fruit with a number of member associations making use of the funds.Financing for the program that provides funding for sporting associations to acquire equipment deemed critical to building capacity for sport and the performance of athletes, was madeRead more

Samuda makes case for a national strategic and business sport plan

By admin | JOA News, Local News | Comments are Closed | 6 January, 2022 | 0
Sport is a business and like any viable business, there has to be a plan that sustains the business. A maxim that was articulated by president of the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA), Christopher Samuda, in the featured address he delivered at the partnership investiture between the Jamaica Lacrosse Association and the G C Foster College of Physical Education and Sport and also in a post-event interview. In lauding the partnership, Samuda exhorted the parties to become “influencers and instrumental in the creation of a national strategic and business sport plan and its activation” and in so doing he identified elements of this plan

Lacrosse association, G.C. Foster sign partnership

By admin | JOA News, Lacrosse | Comments are Closed | 4 January, 2022 | 0
The Jamaica Lacrosse Association (JLA) recently signed a partnership with the Spanish Town-based G.C. Foster College to have a course for the sport included in the institution’s curriculum.

JOA looks to increase sport administration knowledge base

By admin | JOA News, Local News | Comments are Closed | 4 January, 2022 | 0

Seventeen presidents and secretaries general from 17 sports associations, as well as known sport personalities, are expected to be trained and receive international certification upon completion of sport-specific courses offered by the academy next year, as part of the Protocol for Partnership Agreement which was signed earlier this year by the JOA and its member, the Jamaica Paralympic Association (JPA), with the USSA.

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