Where is Seymour Newman?

Just watched an interview with the man. on You Tube. Still living in Cobbla, Manchester.

Yes, Richard is back in Cobbla.

Wish he could go into coaching.our 400m guys are weak! A 400/ middle distance (800m) guy could impart something

Babba still in Cobbla?

In reply to CWW

It's been decades since I last heard this name.
Very special man.. Glad to know he is still around.Hope he is ok and can
make a contribution in helping our middle distance prospects and incumbents.

Off-topic, I always wonder why the government didn't convert Cobbla camp into a technical boarding high school, linking it to Holmwood!

In reply to XDFIX

Cobbla is now one on the campuses for Knox community college

In reply to XDFIX




The type of training that Cobbla was designed to provide are still in short supply in Jamaica?

In reply to rudebway




Who is using the 200+acres of farm lands?

Just watched the interview and is even more convinced now that he has a role to play in JA's long sprint/middle distance coaching/development. Really intelligent and humble man.

In reply to camos



that i dont know. there is a lot of land there.

In reply to camos

Cobbla was into the technical stuff, al a Holmwood, no?

In reply to rudebway

Knox had a better vision than the Technical School stakeholders - congrats to them!

In reply to XDFIX

I worked there for a while teaching agriculture! we had a good mushroom growing business, also a reasonable size dairy herd. Most people were trained in some trade.

As a youth, Newman was a proficient cricketer and in the early 1970s he played for the Jamaica Under 19s team, in the same side as Jeff Dujon and Michael Holding.

Newman represented Jamaica in two events at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He made the semi-finals of the 800 metres and finished fifth in contentious circumstances, having been bumped during the race by US runner Rick Wohlhute.

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