Past Spotlight

By Duane Coombs
Tuesday June 3, 2025

The Excelsior Eagles upended rural champions, Manchester High, in thrilling fashion on Saturday, May 31, in a 32-run win in the All-Island T20 cricket contest at the Sir P Oval in Clarendon, to claim their third title of the season. Excelsior had earlier won the urban Grace Shield as well as the T20 titles.

SCORES: XLCR 245-2 (David Dewar 138 n.o, Justin Adlam 53 n.o. and Jamare Daley 45) Manchester 213-10 (Jovaine Willaims 2-30 Tarique Forbes 2-35 Demarco Scott 2-26).

After being sent in to bat, Excelsior, led by premier batsman, David Dewar, pummeled the Manchester High attack to all corners to mount an impressive score of 245-2 in their allotted 20 overs. Dewar…

2024 COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD HONOREE

ANTHONY HUGH HUDSONCLASS OF 1976

Anthony Hugh Hudson (Tony) attended St. Aloysius primary school in downtown Kingston and went on to attend Excelsior High school at the age of 10. At Excelsior, he was an all-rounder, excelling on and off the track and pitch. This environment allowed him to shine in the glory of supreme education and the sports curriculum granted at the high school level. This was noted by his peers that labeled him as one of the high achievers. He was an outstanding athlete, winning races at boy’s champs as well as a revered academic, oftentimes coming first or second in his class competing with none other than his…

Former Lady Eagle Niesha Burgher’s outstanding track career reached its ultimate milestone in June when it added a new destination: Paris for the Olympic Games. She will step on the track on Sunday August 4 to fulfill a lifelong dream.

Burgher, an outstanding ex-Excelsior High School sprinter capped a very successful collegiate career earlier this year and left many shattered records in her wake. The just-graduated University of Texas At El Paso (UTEP) senior concluded a stellar collegiate career by breaking an almost decade old school record formerly held by Nigerian Olympian Tobi Amusan.

She clocked 23.20 in the 200m at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Collegiate Invitational on Jan. 21 to beat out Amusan’s time of…

Subject: The Eagle Eye 2024: Vol 6 No 1 | Nugent, Burgher & ClunisBook Tickets To Paris

Alumni & Friends,

There’s a saying that, “good fortune shies away from gloom.” There certainly was no gloom inside Kingston’s National Stadium over the past 4 days of the JAAA National Senior & Junior Championships, aka Trials, as Jamaican athletes thrilled local fans with some exceptional performances. This good fortune extended to the XLCR contingent of both past and current Eagles.

Ackera Nugent Powers her way to a new 100mH national record

Excelsior High School has had 12 of its students participate in the Olympic Games. The last one being Sanjay Ayre at the 2008 Beijing Games. After 16 years XLCR finally has not one, but three Olympians.
Ackera Nugent, Niesha Burgher & Nayoka Clunis have booked…

EXCELSIOR, CHURCH, FAMILY FETE MS. MORGAN
By: Duane Coombs
Tuesday, May 28, 2024

A series of celebratory events marked the centenary of the birth of iconic Excelsior teacher Ms. Contance Pearl Morgan.

Her actual 100th Birthday was kicked off on Sunday, May 26, 2024, by her joining her home congregation at the Providence Methodist Church where they gave thanks for her long and very fruitful life.

Later on Sunday, family and close friends of Ms. Morgan came together to fete her at sumptuous 100th Anniversary Birthday Bash at the Terra Nova
Hotel in Kingston.

On Monday Ms. Morgan received a national salute when she was given a 100th Birthday “shout-out” by host, Neville Bell. Preceding the “shout- out”, Bell invited his co-hosts to…