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Feb 15, 2010 Sports
– Patterson wins Presidency, issues to be addressed
By Edison Jefford
The concept of a ‘Dream Team’ captures the hallucination of a composition that has been in the mindset of decision-makers but never brought to reality. However, yesterday it was when David Patterson and team were launched into leadership.
Basketball in Guyana benefited from its first ‘Dream Team’ of administrators in the New Millennium when Patterson and team won the overwhelming support of those present at the Annual General Meeting and Elections yesterday.
Patterson defeated Georgetown sub-association President, Trevor Rose five votes to two in the race for the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) Presidency after being in the position, de facto, for little less than one year.
Rose had made his position clear leading up to the elections stating that he would not like to see the top post go uncontested. He had shied away from running for the Presidency at the imminent event and listing possible candidates.
Patterson won hands down with a slate that includes personnel that could change the face of basketball in Guyana. The ‘Dream Team’ includes skilled professionals that will be on the offensive to put the popular sport back in the lime light.
Floyd Levi won the Vice-President office for Operations while a former Magistrate Dawn Holder was also voted Vice-President for Discipline. Ian La Fargue got General Secretary with Kurt Fraser as Assistant Secretary/Treasurer.
Public Relations Officer went to Michael Burnette while Abdulla Hamid won a Technical Director post. Khemraj Gooberdan was voted in as Treasurer to compliment a team that’s one of the best compositions in the federation’s history.
Patterson expressed a similar view when he told Kaieteur Sport that he was very enthused with the personnel that won the hearts of the voting participants. He said that it boasts the best combination of youth and experience for the sport.
“Our goal is to restore basketball where it is supposed to be. This is just the Executive but I intend to work with the entire General Council,” Patterson said, adding that he wants all the Council members to feel empowered in his administration.
“Across the board it is a very professional group. We could look forward to industry,” he continued. Patterson believes that the new GABF Executive is geared at addressing most of the present ills without looking at the federation’s past.
Patterson, who is a former President of the Rotary Club of Demerara, outlined his plan at the meeting, which includes the establishment of other sub-associations across Guyana to address the issue of decentralising national basketball.
The proposal for the development of basketball in Guyana looked at several other areas in an attempt to deal with the shortcomings of the sport. The Georgetown subsidiary had asked for the development plan ahead of the meeting.
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