A team of four youth boxers will soon head off to Mexico in a bid to qualify for the Youth Pan American Games. And National three-star Coach Terrence Poole, MS. is quite pleased with the venture.
Last week, Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) President Steve Ninvalle, who is also the Director of Sports, announced a four-member youth team that would represent Guyana at next week’s Qualifiers for the Youth Pan American Games later this year.
Now, Coach Terrence Poole, who is overseeing preparation and will travel with the team, echoed praises for the initiative taken by the GBA to give the young boxers a chance at development.
Coach Terrence Poole, MS
“I think it’s a very good initiative from the Guyana Boxing Association in terms of exposing our young boxers, graduate them into the different levels, until we reach the elite stage, where we can get more results from them,” Poole told <<<Guyana Times Sport>>> in an invited comment.
The three-star Coach has been working with the team, consisting of Alesha Jackman, Travis Inverary, Wayne Castello, and Patrick Harvey, and is confident about what they will be able to produce in Guadalajara, Mexico.
“So, it’s a good opportunity for these young boxers – going to a Junior Pan American Games, which there wasn’t. I think it’s a good effort; I think most of the boxers would’ve had that type of ability to perform and I can see us having qualifiers for the Youth Pan American Games,” the Coach opined.
Poole’s confidence is so high that he is sure the young boxers will medal.
He assured, “I know for sure that there’s persons between there who would be qualifying there.”
The Youth Qualifiers in Mexico are scheduled to run from July 11 to July 19. On the other hand, the first-ever Youth Pan American Games are slated for November 25 to December 5 in Cali, Colombia, with three Guyanese athletes already qualified – table tennis player Miguel Wong and badminton players Priyanna Ramdhani and Akili Haynes.
