Preparations for schools’ b/ball c/ships moving apace

Jan 23, 2009 Sports

– despite slow registration rate

By Edison Jefford
Despite the slow registration rate of the schools ahead of the National Sports Commission (NSC) High School Basketball Championships, preparations are still moving apace and the fixture is to be set next Friday.
One of the coordinators of the event, which is being staged to commemorate the Republic Day celebrations, Lavern Fraser, said the sports commission is awaiting responses from the invitations that were sent to the various schools.
“We are waiting to get back responses from the schools. Nevertheless, we have a meeting next Friday where we will be setting the fixtures,” Fraser told Kaieteur Sport yesterday, adding that registration closes on Monday.
According to the coordinator, they have received calls from schools that enquired on the amount of players eligible for entry. However, the NSC has not received any formal entry slip from any of the schools invited.
“Registration fees are $1,000 per school. I don’t have any confirmed registration but some schools have called to ask about how much players to enter. I don’t have any slips in my hand at the moment,” Fraser reiterated.
The championships was the brainchild of Director of Sport, Neil Kumar to have the sport successful return to schools so that players have a proper system to graduate to national junior and senior teams when they are called.
“We want to stimulate more schools’ basketball. We will take the discipline and make it an example with our programmes because we are looking at long–term development,” Kumar had told this newspaper earlier this week.
The Director of Sport stated that systems are being put in place at the Sports Hall and the National Gymnasium to accommodate schools for practice sessions that have registered for this year’s inaugural competition.
In an effort to “wake up the associations”, Kumar had said that the first six teams to enter the competition will get a basketball from the sports commission. This paper understands that close to 50 invitations were delivered.

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