Coach of Guyana’s Junior National Table Tennis players Dwain Dick, is not at all peeved about Guyana’s showing at the just concluded Caribbean Mini and Pre Cadet Table Tennis Championships which was hosted in the Dominican Republic.
Young batting sensation Guyana’s Mavendra Dindyal is certainly a future star and has been hailed as one of the bright performers by Steve Liburd, West Indies Under 15 Coach and CWI School’s Cricket Development Officer following the conclusion of the West Indies Under 15 Future Stars summer tour of England last weekend.
Jason Holder’s men will face an uphill battle today against a powerful Indian side as both teams kick-start their ICC World Test Championships campaign.
-Jason-Ray Khalil, Kristian Jeffery take gold in men’s doubles, Ashley Khalil, Taylor Fernandes take gold in women’s doubles “I’m happy I was here to watch this,” one spectator remarked after local squash queen Nicolette Fernandes toppled 17-year old Barbadian national Meagan Best 3-0 in a lopsided final of the women’s category of the ongoing Senior Caribbean Singles and Doubles Championships (CASA) last evening at the Georgetown Club Squash Court.
Guyana’s Richard Chin is the lone local male player remaining in the draw while Nicolette Fernandes, Larissa Wiltshire, Mary Fung – A – Fat and Taylor Fernandes have all booked quarter-final places in the female singles category of the ongoing Senior Caribbean Singles and Doubles Championships (CASA) after day one action ended last evening at the Georgetown Club.
Exciting basketball talent Jether Dean Harris is back home with a wealth of knowledge and experience to share following his participation in the annual Quinn Cook Basketball Camp in Maryland, United States of America.
Junior National Lawn Tennis Champion Heimraj Resaul has reaped the reward of balancing sports and academic by being granted a scholarship from the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, United States.
A junior national table tennis contingent is set to depart Guyana Monday for the Dominican Republic to contest the 2019 Caribbean Mini and Pre-cadet championships from August 19-27.
Guyanese junior batting sensation Mavendra Dindyal has so far been one of the standout performers in the ongoing West Indies Under-15 tour of the United Kingdom.
After the holiday Monday last, the first-ever Tucber Park Cricket Club Summer Camp commenced yesterday with 30 plus participants at the Berbice High School Ground.
The Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) yesterday launched its 2019 Junior Summer Camp at the club’s pavilion.
The athletic virtues of many local athletes are often only recorded in the coliseum where they parade their craft, reducing them to mere performers and little acknowledgement is given to their social contribution to society.
Returning to the saddle after a four-month hiatus, Team Evolution’s Akeem Wilkinson shaved off four minutes from last year’s time to ride away with the 15th annual Ricks and Sari sponsored Reagan Rodrigues Memorial 46-mile Road Race at Schoonord, West Bank Demerara yesterday.
As Guyana gears up for the upcoming 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, squash spearhead Mary Fung-A-Fat is excited at the prospect of competing against other world-class athletes at the games.
Guyana Under – 19 Coach Julian Moore is almost certain that the five-time defending champions in the one – day version of Cricket West Indies regional U19 championships can record its sixth consecutive regional under – 19 one day title.
One of Guyana’s leading ladies in the realm of table tennis, Chelsea Edghill, is keen on being more than a passing feature at the upcoming Pam American Games in Lima, Peru.
As Guyana’s squash team polishes off its preparations to contest the 2019 Caribbean Area Squash Association Junior championship in Trinidad and Tobago, coach Carl Ince has conceded that the current batch is just talented as any Guyana would have produced.
By Royston Alkins Junior sensation Jonathan Van Lange of the Titans Table Tennis Club, mopped up his third junior national title for 2019 after he won the boys under – 13 title in the 2019 Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) National Mini and Pre-Cadet Championships at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH).
By Royston Alkins Pepsi Hikers pulled off a thrilling effort last evening by netting 21 goals in a resounding win over YMCA Old Fort Champs on the second evening of the 2019 Guyana Hockey Board (GHB), Noble House Seafoods Goals Galore Handicap Open Indoor Hockey tournament at the National Gymnasium.
By Royston Alkins Fifteen- year old Abosaide Cadogan netted a brace last evening to spur Bingo GCC Spartans past their senior counterparts and defending champions GBTI GCC Tigers in the opening match of the 2019 Guyana Hockey Board (GHB), Noble House Seafoods goals galore handicap open indoor hockey tournament at the National Gymnasium.
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