AS­JA Girls Col­lege (San Fer­nan­do) se­cured the au­to­mat­ic semi­fi­nal spot in the Girls Open Di­vi­sion of the T&T Sec­ondary Schools Vol­ley­ball League (SSVL) when they won Group A of their round-robin se­ries at the South­ern Re­gion­al In­door Sports Are­na in Pleas­antville on Fri­day (Jan­u­ary 30).

Nat­taly Lin­do de­liv­ered a stand­out per­for­mance for T&T at the Mill­rose Games, se­cur­ing a pres­ti­gious sec­ond-place fin­ish in the women’s weight throw. The event, held over the week­end (Jan­u­ary 30 - Feb­ru­ary 1) at the Ar­mory Track & Field Cen­tre in New York, saw T&T ath­letes ex­cel on the World Ath­let­ics In­door Tour Gold stage.

VADO­DARA, In­dia – West In­dies all-rounder Chinelle Hen­ry grabbed two key wick­ets as her Del­hi Cap­i­tals Women de­feat­ed UP War­riorz Women by five wick­ets to ad­vance to the Elim­i­na­tor in the Women’s Pre­mier League in In­dia on Sun­day.

MAN­CHES­TER – Ja­maican in­ter­na­tion­al Khadi­jah ‘Bun­ny’ Shaw’s first half goal helped Man­ches­ter City crush de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Chelsea 5-1 and ex­tend their lead at the top of the Women’s Su­per League (WSL) in Eng­land on Sun­day.

Queen’s Park Crick­et Club (QPCC) spin­ner Bryan Charles al­most sin­gle-hand­ed­ly caused KFC Clarke Road’s demise at the Queen’s Park Oval in St Clair, Port-of-Spain, on the sec­ond day of the T&T Crick­et Board Pre­mier Di­vi­sion One on Sun­day as QPCC pro­duced an­oth­er in­nings vic­to­ry af­ter their huge open­ing win against Mer­ry­boys last week.

JO­HAN­NES­BURG, South Africa – If the West In­dies are to stand any chance of win­ning an un­prece­dent­ed third World Cup ti­tle, their bowlers will have to pro­duce a her­culean ef­fort, says head coach Daren Sam­my.

​T&T’s hopes of se­cur­ing a place in this year’s Un­der-17 Women’s World Cup in Mo­roc­co (Oc­to­ber–No­vem­ber) were left hang­ing by a thread Sun­day when this coun­try's foot­ball "Princess­es" were spanked 7-0 by El Sal­vador in a must-win Group F en­counter at the Sta­dion Rig­naal ‘Jean’ Fran­cis­ca in Willem­stad, Cu­ra­cao.

As an alum­nus of AS­JA Boys’ Col­lege, San Fer­nan­do, watch­ing the "Green and Gold" flood the streets in the vicin­i­ty of the school for the 2026 5K Run/Walk, Sun­day, was a mo­ment of im­mense pride.

JO­HAN­NES­BURG, South Africa – West In­dies head coach Daren Sam­my has laud­ed left-arm spin­ner Gu­dakesh Motie for his work eth­ic and per­se­ver­ance af­ter his match-win­ning per­for­mance in the third and fi­nal T20I against South Africa on Sat­ur­day.

KINGSTOWN, St Vin­cent – Ja­maica Women leapt from fifth po­si­tion to claim the CG Unit­ed Women’s Su­per50 Cup ti­tle for the sixth time in dra­mat­ic fash­ion in one of the most keen­ly con­test­ed com­pe­ti­tions in re­cent mem­o­ry.

KINGSTOWN – Ei­ther the Wind­ward Is­lands Women or de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Trinidad and To­ba­go Women will be crowned win­ners of the CG Unit­ed Women’s Su­per50 Cup fol­low­ing the com­ple­tion of yes­ter­day’s fi­nal round in St Vin­cent on Sat­ur­day.

Op­ti­mism is a pow­er­ful fu­el in sport. It’s what keeps young play­ers dream­ing, sup­port­ers be­liev­ing, and ad­min­is­tra­tors push­ing for­ward even when re­sults are un­kind. But op­ti­mism, if it isn’t an­chored in re­al­i­ty, can quick­ly be­come delu­sion.