Winfield Braithwaite School Boys and Juniors: GBA names 21-member team in pursuit of retaining title

The Guyana Boxing Association has officially selected 21 persons who would be tasked with defending home turf in the prestigious Winfield Braithwaite Caribbean Schoolboys/Juniors Championship, programmed for August 18th-20th at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.
The team, which features two female pugilists, includes representation from the Forgotten Youth Foundation, the Guyana Police Force, Andrew Lewis Gym, Rose Hall Jammers, Vergenoegen, and Pace and Power Boxing Gym.
The team comprises [Rose Hall Jammers] Shimroy Wings, Raham Peters, Travis Sancho, Matthew Sancho, Kenyon Hamilton, and Joffes Jackson; [Vergenoegen] Keyon Britton, Markel Blue, Joel Hinds, Garvel Hyman, and (female) Tianna Moore; [Forgotten Youth Foundation] Wayne Castello, Tiquan Sampson, Shakquain James, and (female) Akeelan Vancooten; [Pace and Power], Khamuda Alexander, Ken Harvey, and Ryan Rodgers; [Andrew Lewis] Eon Bancroft and Leon Albert; and [Guyana Police Force] Chance Niles.

The GBA had commenced its arduous selection process with its monthly U16 Championships, which were hosted at the Andrew ‘Six Head’ Lewis Gym in Albouystown and at the National Gymnasium. Upon the end of the previous competition in July, combatants were shortlisted for further assessment, which resulted in the aforementioned cadre being selected. The team will be encamped to continue the preparatory phase, and will be once again under the supervision of the GBA coaches Lennox Daniels, Sebert Blake, Clifton Moore, Francisco Roldon, and Technical Director Terrence Poole, MS.
Steve Ninvalle, President of the GBA, said that the selection was a result of a thorough and structured process which commenced months in advance of the impending championship. The team will be under the watchful eye of the association’s technical machinery, whose sole objective is to prepare our pugilists to defend home turf, Ninvalle pointed out.

“While we would have prevailed on each occasion as the overall winner, we simply cannot utilize past results as a barometer,” Ninvalle added. “As a consequence, we will leave no stone unturned in our continued preparation to maintain our dominance in the region, as the competition provides a window, brief as it may be, into the future and overall imminent direction of the discipline in the region”, he further said.
Guyana will join teams from Barbados, Bahamas, Grenada, St Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago at the tournament.