Basketball Club to mould champions – St Ignatius Secondary Principal Lewis

In line with the Ministry of Education’s push to encourage student participation in at least one sport, St Ignatius Secondary School has established a basketball club in Culver City, providing an opportunity for skill development.
As it displays the finest of school basketball across the whole country of Guyana, this basketball club will provide children with a stage on which to display their abilities in the Youth Basketball Guyana School Tournaments.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with Guyana Times Sport, St Ignatius Secondary School Principal Kenrick Lewis expounded that this club will help to mould champions and influence students to choose basketball as their sport of choice.

“Based on education, we are to create various clubs and allow every student to participate in their respective sport. Introducing basketball at St Ignatius Secondary School provides every student with an opportunity to choose a sport. Alright, so basketball is a relatively new sport here. We have students who have watched basketball on TV and students who are inclined towards it and who also have the skills. So, to garner those skills and to mould these students to become champions, this is just an initial stage where we are now introducing basketball,” Lewis said.
He went on to divulge that once exposed to the right environment, the students would be able to reap success at tournaments and gain national selection.
Lewis said: “Yes, definitely because they are students just like any other student. Once they are exposed to the training, the rules and they are given the right environment too, they can excel and they can bring home any championship trophy as well. Yeah, of course, that is the objective. It is not just to participate, it is to compete and to give students from the Rupununi an equal opportunity like any other student across this country, an opportunity to make the national team. So, if we have, for example, exceptional students here, I don’t see why there should be the denial of space on the national team to represent Guyana.”
In January, Guyana Times Sport had an exclusive interview with Youth Basketball Guyana Co-director Chris Bowman and he divulged that efforts were ongoing to engage St Ignatius Secondary School on youth basketball. (Omar Mckenzie)