160 youths to benefit from RHTY&SC school break initiative

The Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, MS, are catering for 160 youths as the sport entity team up with two business entities to host the TCL Annual Cricket Academy and Republic Bank Summer Camp, starting Monday.
The Area ‘H’ Ground in Rose Hall Town would be abuzz with activities when the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, MS, bowls off its 27th Annual Cricket Academy and the 11th Annual Educational Camp on Monday, 10th July, 2017 from 09.00 hours (9.00 am). The Cricket Academy is being sponsored by Trinidad Cement Ltd, while the Educational Camp is sponsored by Republic Bank.
Club Secretary/CEO Hilbert Foster stated that both programmes are major projects in the Club’s calendar of 500 activities for 2017. The cricket academy would be held at the Area ‘H’ Ground from Monday10th to Friday 21st July, 2017. It would be supervised by Coach Delbert Hicks, starting at 09.00 hours each day, and caters for 100 youths between the ages of 8 and 18 years.
Members of the Academy would be involved in batting, bowling and fielding, while special emphasis would be placed on physical fitness.
The youths would also be exposed to lectures on a wide range of topics, including History of Cricket, Structure of Cricket, Laws of Cricket, Suicide, Drug Abuse, Personal Hygiene, Depression, and Importance of Education.
RHTY&SC would provide all the gear needed, while a daily snack would be provided for each academy member. Foster disclosed that the main objectives of the 2017 Cricket Academy would be to assist youths to develop as cricketers, to educate them on their role model status, and to prepare them for future careers as professional cricketers.
Over the last 27 years, the academy has produced a total of 2019 yung cricketers, including Assad Fudadin, Esuan Crandon, Royston Crandon, Clinton Pestano, Eon Hooper, Shemaine Campbelle, Erva Giddings, Plaffiana Millington, Dominique Rikhi, Loyydel Lewis, Shawn Pereira, Neil Williams, Shawn Grant, Renwick Batson, Khemaraj Mahadeo and Ashkay Homraj. The Republic Bank Summer Camp would cater for 60 Grade Six students who would be entering secondary school in September. The Camp would be conducted by senior educator Rohan Etwaru. Students would be taught Maths, English, History, Social Studies and Spanish, and would also be learning the game of cricket. Lectures would be held on a wide range of topics, including Peer Pressure, Discipline in Classroom, Importance of Education, and Personal Hygiene. The classes would last until the second week in August.