Howard Walker, Staff Reporter
Left: Glenmuir High School's Carnell Learmond collects the daCosta Cup Golden Boot award from his principal, Clement Radcliffe, who is also the president of the Inter-Secondary Schools' Sports Association (ISSA) at yesterday's presentation ceremony at Terra Nova Hotel. Learmond also won the daCosta Cup MVP award.
Right: Calabar's captain Robert Palmer smiles as he holds his Manning Cup Most Valuable Player award, after being presented with the prize by Pepsi's general manager Andrew Reid (in the background) at yesterday's Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) awards ceremony at the Terra Nova Hotel. - PHOTOS BY RUDOLPH BROWN/CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER
CARNELL LEARMOND of Glenmuir stole the show at the 2005 Inter Secondary School Association (ISSA) Pepsi/Jamaica National Manning/DaCosta Cup presentation at the Terra Nova Hotel yesterday.
Learmond walked away with four awards including the Most Valuable Player (MVP) for the DaCosta Cup, plus $50,000 for educational purposes, The Golden Boot, The Most Goals Scored and three Player-of -the-Month titles.
Calabar's captain Robert Palmer captured the MVP for the Manning Cup plus $50,000 for educational purposes, while Norman Bailey of Norman Manley won the Golden Boot Award with four second round goals and Jermaine Allen of Tivoli Gardens, with 15 goals, recieved the Most Goals Award for the Corporate Area.
Learmond who set alight schoolboy football with his 39 goals for the season, said, although he was happy for the individual titles he was a bit disappointed with not winning the daCosta Cup.
"Although I won most of the prizes today I am not quite comfortable because we were going for the big prizes, the daCosta Cup and the Olivier Shield, and repeat as triple champions," said Learmond.
However, he did offer a smile saying that last year this time he was sitting, watching someone else capture the golden boots award and wished it was him.
Robert Palmer, who led Calabar to the Olivier Shield, the supremacy of schoolboy football, said it was a great feeling to win the MVP award and a great season for his team.
"I feel great because I played all the matches from the back and led my team from the front. We started training from April and we said this time around we won't be going to the final and lose again."
Trophies were given all the first and second round winners for both Manning and daCosta Cups.
Calabar and Godrey Stewart collected their Manning Cup and daCosta Cup trophies, along with their $175,000 winning cheques, plus a computer.
The Most Disciplined Team Award went to St Andrew Technical ahead of Manning High, while Calabar with 59 goals and Glenmuir with 105 goals won for the Most Attacking team.
Glenmuir, the losing daCosta Cup finalists, were in the spotlight again, winning the Most Defensive Team trophy. Norman Manley took the Manning equivalent.
Glenmuir conceded just seven goals, three of which came in the final while Norman Manley conceded 10.
Tivoli Gardens collected the Walker Cup and Glenmuir the Ben Francis knockout, while beaten daCosta and Manning Cup finalists, Glenmuir and Norman Manley respectively, received $75,000.
