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Amateur boxers prepare for national duties in T&T and India
By Michael Benjamin
The Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) has selected four women to represent Guyana at the Pan America Women’s Boxing championships slated to get underway at the Chagaramus Convention Centre, Trinidad and Tobago from October 1-8.
Alicia Marques
Four other boxers are also in training to represent this country at the 3rd Commonwealth Youth Championships in India, early next month.
Those selected for the Trinidad trip are: Ansilla Norville, Amanda Charles, Alicia Marques and Mandessa Moses. James Walcott will perform coaching duties.
However, all but one of the members of the team of four, short-listed to represent Guyana at the 3rd Commonwealth Youth Championships has been identified.
Caribbean bantamweight champion Clevon Rock, featherweight Stephon Gouveia and welterweight, Akeem Alexander have already earned their places while light/flyweights Orlando Alicock and Mulchan Sankar will engage in a box-off tomorrow evening at the Harpy Eagles Gym Harpy Eagles Gym (HEG) to determine the final member of the team.
On Wednesday last Kaieteur Sport visited the HEG and was treated to several action packed encounters as members of the team engaged in sparring sessions.
Also assessing the boxers were coaches Carl Franklyn, Terrence Poole, Evan Parris and James Walcott. At the end of the sessions they all voiced their satisfaction at the application and commitment demonstrated by the boxers. Speaking during a break in the training sessions Franklyn said that GABA executives are convinced that even though the boxers are relatively inexperienced they are optimistic that the team will turn in favorable performances. Of the lot only Moses has had international exposure.
Only last month she had attended the Caribbean Female Championships staged in the Twin Island republic and won a gold medal. Notwithstanding this, Franklyn said that the three others are the best of those available since they were the most dominant in a recently staged box-off.
Franklyn further disclosed that the three other coaches assigned to the team-Terrence Poole, James Walcott, and Evan Parris have been working hard on the technical and physical development of the boxers.
He pointed out that the squad attends roadwork sessions at the National Park for a two hour period commencing at around 05:00hrs every morning. They then return at 16:00hrs for gym work which consists of sparring, pads work, school boxing as well as combat boxing.
Franklyn also disclosed that Guyana will be participating in the Commonwealth Youth Championships for the first time since its inauguration three years ago. He will accompany the team as the coach and has expressed confidence that the boxers will perform creditably.
He said that the team of coaches assigned to the boxers is working assiduously to ensure that they attain maximum fitness. The team will leave Guyana on August 27.
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