The Guyanese Table Tennis contingent will leave Guyana tonight for Jamaica where they will be competing at the 11th Annual Caribbean Mini & Pre-Cadet Table Tennis Championships from August 21-28, 2017.
In an exclusive interview, Head Coach of the contingent, Linden Johnson told Guyana Times Sports that he is “confident that the team will better their performance last year”.
Junior Sportsman of the Year and Caribbean 11 and Under Table Tennis champion Kaysan Ninvalle is all smiles as receives gear from Colours Boutique. Ninvalle is flanked by Colours Sales Representative Creanna Damon (left) and Principle of Chase Academy Henry Chase
The team is considerably smaller than last year’s team which brought home one gold medal courtesy of Kaysan Ninvalle; this is due to financial constraints according to Johnson.
He noted that the team consists mostly of the same players that attended last year’s championships in Jamaica and pointed out that this was so due to the players competing above their respective age ranges.
One such case in point is the talented Ninvalle who is the reigning U-11 Gold medalist at the championships.
Two members of the team; Jonathan Van Lange and Krystian Sahadeo are already in Jamaica participating at the Caribbean Hopes Table Tennis Training and Selection Camp which will conclude today.
The competition will be amongst countries such as Puerto Rico, Barbados, Aruba, Jamaica, St Lucia Trinidad and Tobago, Dominican Republic and French Guiana.
The other members of Guyana’s delegation, Isaiah Layne, Thuraia Thomas, Dhanesh Persaud, Alexander De Abreu and Colin Wong, will travel to Jamaica to join Sahadeo and Van Lange for the championships slated for August 21-28, 2017.
Meanwhile, Ninvalle was yesterday presented with gear for the tournament by Colours Boutique on Robb Street. In April of this year the Guyana number one footwear store signed on to a two-year contract with the 12-year-old the 2016 Junior Sportsman of the year.
The contract allows for Ninvalle, a student of Chase Academy, to receive training and competition attire from Colours.
