From the start of the 2014-15 under-20 season and later stages of the last premier league season, Ludlow Bernard and Donald ‘Fowly’ Stewart have been working together guiding two Harbour View teams, alongside Ricardo ‘Bibi’ Gardner. Their working relationship continues this upcoming premier league season, but on the field of schoolboy football, they’ll be competitors as they both will coach two competitive, traditional high schools – Jamaica College (JC) and Kingston College (KC).
Ludlow Bernard stepped down from the Wolmer’s Boys Manning Cup team coach post last year after four years in charge at the institution. Bernard’s alma-mater, KC, is where he now resides.
Bernard is a certified JFF Advance Level Two Coaching Course graduate and had over thirty years successful experience at Harbour View football club with our junior teams before gaining two months experience last season at the premiership level. He has won the Walker Cup twice in 3 years recently at Wolmer’s Boys, and has collected 14 winning titles at Harbour View including 6 Under 17’s, 4 Under 20’s, 3 Under 14/15’s and 1 Under 21 League.
Kingston College has lifted the Manning Cup trophy 14 times, the Walker Cup trophy 8 times, and the Olivier shield 9 times. The last time they won a title was at the turn of the century in the year 2000.
Former HVFC/National Player and past Manning Cup star Donald Stewart was appointed as a member of Jamaica College’s technical staff and as the new Assistant Coach to Miguel Coley and in June of this year.
Stewart is also a certified JFF Advance Level Two Coaching Course graduate, who assisted his former Jamaica College High School and Reggae Boyz Coach Bradley Stewart last season at Calabar High School in the Manning Cup, as well as former his teammate Andre Virtue at the Ballaz Academy junior programme.
Jamaica College has won 26 Manning Cup titles, making them the school with the most wins, 18 times for Olivier Shield, and attained their first hold on the Walker Cup in 2009 which they defended the following year. This record, when coupled with Jamaica College’s win percentage in the Manning Cup, makes them the most successful high school football team in Jamaica. In 2014, telecommunications company LIME introduced the LIME Super Cup which was marketed as the Champions League of Jamaican Schoolboy Football. In its inaugural year, Jamaica College won the tournament and made them triple champions of 2014 with Manning Cup and Oliver Shield already under their belt.