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Local ladies take on SC All-Stars tonight
– coaches exude confidence
Guyana’s senior women’s basketball team will have their first major challenge this year at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall with the arrival of the South Carolina Lady All-Stars for a three-game series that begins tonight.
The United States-based semi-professional and professional team arrived early this morning to take on the local women. They will also facilitate basketball clinics among a succession of other developmental functions. Local coaches Mark Agard and Robert Cadogan have both indicated the preparedness of the national women’s team for international challenge. They predicted yesterday that the games will be close since the US side has the depth.
“The games will be close because we have been working hard,” Cadogan told Kaieteur Sport as his counterpart, Agard, simultaneously said, “we have been working hard at the Sports Hall,” in a statement of administrative confidence.
Women’s basketball in Guyana has been forsaken for many years after their Caribbean Championships win in 1996. The move to have the local women exposed against the kind of quality of the Carolina Ladies is a step forward.
However, Guyana will be pressed to prove they have the mettle with the likes of Nichola Jacobs from Linden expected to play a leading role. Senior point guard Sonia Rodney and Natasha Alder will also have major roles to play.
Since the local women’s tour to Antigua and Barbuda in January 2008, the team have not been exposed to international competition. They have been in preparation since and their readiness is expected to be optimum tonight.
(Edison Jefford)
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