The UWI Mona scholarship programme is one of the interventions introduced last academic year to bolster the sports programme on Campus. It took on a special focus for incoming students in two disciplines, male football and track & field athletics. The special focus was a result of increasing the presence of male students on the campus and fulfilling a long time mandate of have a special focus in track & field for the Campus.

Last academic year there were eight male recipients, split evenly for track and football. This academic year we have nine recipients, five footballers and four male track & field athletes. The 1st mandate of the football team to re-enter the Kingston & St. Andrew Football Association (KSAFA) Syd Bartlett league and qualify for Major League was realised. This year’s mandate for football will be to move from the KSAFA Major League into the Super League. This path is ultimately leading to the positioning of a Mona Campus team in the National premier League.

Track and field on Campus is taking a new direction with a focus on sprint development. The incentive of training on the same track (and occasionally at the same time) with the world Record holder Usain Bolt, is expected to have some impact on the cadre of talented student athletes vying to be the best in the nation, Caribbean and the world in the near future.

The scholarship recipients and their disciplines are stated below.