Female football team has ‘surprise’ in store From April 24-27, Guyana will play host for the first leg of the 2009 Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) which will see them competing against Suriname and French Guiana in swimming, athletics and football with male and female participation in each discipline.
Andrew Murray Jr is captain again The National Sports Commission (NSC) has named Guyana’s 18-man football squad for this weekend’s Inter-Guiana Games’ (IGG) first leg in Georgetown where it will be competing against Suriname and French Guiana.
-aiming to become a good student/athlete Fifteen-year-old Jevina Straker says that even though she was denied a chance of competing at the 6th IAAF World Youth games this year, she is not deterred and will use it as a motivating factor to do even better in the future.
-Guyana settles for third with seven medals Team Guyana had to settle for third overall at this year’s Caribbean Cadet and Junior Table Tennis Championships which concluded on Friday at the Marriott Dome in St Kitts.
While the Guyana Amateur Power Lifting Federation (GAPLF) is preparing to send some of it athletes to the North American Power lifting Federation’s (NAPF) third annual Caribbean Islands Bench Press and Power lifting Championships next month, one power lifter even though he’s not on the team, is quietly making history.
-admits his association has not done enough President of the Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) Uborn Smith has admitted that the present state of basketball in Linden is abysmal.
-basketball federation still silent Guyana’s senior national men’s basketball team received a ‘technical’ foul because the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) failed to confirm its attendance at the Caribbean Basketball Confederation’s (CBC) June 28-July 4 Championship in the British Virgin Islands BVI.
Ricardo Martin and Jevina Straker will both have their dreams of competing among some of the world’s best athletes come through, after it was announced that the two will be representing Guyana at this year’s 6th IAAF World Youth Championship (WYC), billed for Italy from July 8-12.
10-team national league in the makingThe Guyana Football Federation (GFF) scored a winning goal after this country was named among 11 that will benefit from the WIN with CONCACAF in CONCACAF project, by the world governing body FIFA.
Straker, Jonas, Martin eyeing more medals …after good showing on third day Javina Straker, Jonella Jonas and Ricardo Martin will all be looking to fly the Golden Arrowhead high once again after qualifying for the finals of their respective races on day three of this year’s Junior CARIFTA games which is on presently in St Lucia at the George Odlum Stadium.
-deadline looms, GABF mum The Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) will have two days from today to say to the Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC), if it will be attending the Caribbean championship which will be held in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) from June 28-July 4.
With the aim of giving back to his community, overseas-based Guyanese Junior Forrester has returned home to launch the Kingston grassroots soccer academy.
Lennox Allen: ‘I’m not saying that I will knock him out, but I will win’ Lennox ‘Too Sharp’ Allen at age 24 will probably have the biggest challenge of his fledgling professional career when he faces Guyana’s middleweight champion Howard ‘Battersea Bomber’ Eastman on April 25 at the Cliff Anderson Sport Hall for the vacant super middleweight title.
Basketball promoters have been complaining recently about the high rent which is being charged by the National Sports Commission (NSC) for the use of the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH).
Strengthened Alpha faces Tempete in return fixture today Thompson to step up as coach after a no show from Mervyn Wilson Guyana’s Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United will face Haiti’s Tempete Football Club in the return fixture of this year’s Caribbean Football Union (CFU) club championship today in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
D’ Andrade, Johnson and Jonas are runners-up National distance athletes Cleveland Forde and Alika Morgan were named male and female 2008 athletes-of-the-year respectively when the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) held its annual awards ceremony at Olympic House Friday evening.
Guyana’s middleweight champion Howard “Battersea Bomber” Eastman has inked his contract to fight Lennox “Too Sharp” Allen for the vacant Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) super middleweight title.
– Kanhai named MVP The McKenzie High School (MHS) maintained their dominance of school basketball in Linden by winning the Ministry of Sport inter-school tournament when they th rashed the Linden Technical Institute (LTI) 64-33 on Tuesday at the Mackenzie Sports Club hard court.
President of the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) retired Col. Godwin McPherson said that he was more than pleased with the performance of the participating clubs in this year’s Next Level Entertainment (NLE) basketball tournament which ended recently.
Former national basketball player turned coach Lugard Mohan is downplaying talks about moving on to being Guyana’s next national coach after leading his club Dyna’s Ravens to the Next Level Entertainment (NLE) basketball title last weekend.
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