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South Carolina Lady All-Stars arrive tomorrow
Will engage national female basketball players
AS GOOD AS IT GETS!!! The South Carolina Lady All Stars will be engaging national female players when they arrive in Guyana tomorrow. The engagement will be as good as it gets at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall. (guyanabasketball.com photo)
By Edison Jefford
Women’s basketball will be called from the shadows tomorrow when the South Carolina Lady All-Stars professional and semi-professional team arrive in Guyana to engage local females after prolonged planning and due anticipation.
This development is expected to resurrect the female version of basketball after years in a dark abyss, notwithstanding the valiant efforts of the fairly new Guyana Amateur Women Basketball Association and President, Michaela Burnett.
The team is scheduled to arrive at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport at a time still to be confirmed and will proceed to the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport for a courtesy call with minister, Dr. Frank Anthony and Neil Kumar.
The South Carolina Ladies will also host a clinic Friday afternoon from 4-6 before taking on Guyana’s senior national female team Friday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall where a riveting under-card is also planned.
Kaieteur Sport understands that the Inter-Guiana Games’ Under-19 boys are to challenge Pepsi Sonics’ Division I team as part of their preparation. The United States-based female team will work with both male and female players.
“Many of them are professional and semi-professional players and coaches. They will be helping both our male and females but far more emphasis will be placed on the females to help them,” National Coach, Robert Cadogan said.
Cadogan admitted that “our females have been starved for exposure and that the Carolina Ladies could only help us” before stating that Guyana’s solitary Caribbean Championship gold medal came from the national females in 1996.
He indicated that female basketball was plunged into the abyss following the migration of almost all of the quality senior players, coupled with the absence of a firm junior base but all that, he said, will change with this new emergence.
“We need to get more females back into the sport and motivate them and this is a perfect opportunity for that. Our female team have produced in the past and we need to take them back there,” Cadogan told this newspaper yesterday.
President of the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation, David Patterson is overseas and could not be reached for a comment yesterday. However, Kaieteur Sport understands that officials met yesterday to fine tune planning the occasion.
Secretary of the national basketball federation, Ian Andrews informed that the Lady All-Stars’ presence is expected to jump-start the new season and it was important to note that women’s basketball is the vehicle being used.
“It is to help develop basketball players and coaches. They (the Carolina Ladies) will also help us spot talent for potential scholarship. It is the start of correspondences between the federation and the team,” Andrews explained.
The former national centre stated that the US-based team will be going to Linden to host a clinic on Sunday at a venue that the Linden Amateur Basketball Association will decide on after cost factors prohibited them from Berbice.
Andrews said that the idea is to have everyone benefit from the presence of the semi-pro and pro team. Guyana’s national female team has been preparing for sometime in Linden and Georgetown. The locals will be genuinely tested.
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