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TD Whipple arrives for second phase of preparations
(Flashback)- Technical Director Joe Whipple seen during one of his sessions on a previous visit.
– Overseas-based players performances being monitored
The Guyana Men’s and Women’s National Sevens Rugby Squads and Men’s U-19 Fifteens will assemble over the weekend from today at the National Park for the second major phase of their preparations to contest the Central American & Caribbean Games Rugby Sevens and Men’s and Women’s NACRA Caribbean Championships.
The sessions will be conducted by Technical Director Joe Whipple, who arrived yesterday from Barbados to spearhead the locals’ preparations for the two events which will be played at the National Stadium from July 24-29.
According to a release from the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) the Women’s team and the Under-19 Fifteens squad have also begun preparations to compete in the NACRA Caribbean Championships in Bahamas which is slated for August14-21.
The Guyana Men’s Sevens Squad is also preparing to represent the North American and Caribbean Region along with Rugby Canada at the Commonwealth Games Rugby Sevens on October11-12 in New Delhi, India.
Meanwhile, National Sevens team member, Kevin McKenzie arrived in Guyana on Tuesday from the UK where he has been playing professional rugby and has since joined the squad.
The Men’s and Women’s Sevens and U-19 Fifteens Squads have completed two months of intensive weight training under their respective team Coaches, Theodore Henry, who is in charge of the National Men’s Sevens Squad, Cornell Millington, who supervises the National Women’s Squad and Clinton Clarke, who is at the helm of the U-19 squad.
The programmes are being directed by Rugby Sevens Director, Mike Mc Cormack.
Five of the National Men’s Sevens team members who represented Guyana at the IRB World Sevens Series in Las Vegas February last, Rupert Giles and Dominic Lespierre, playing rugby in the UK, Albert La Rose, who is based in Canada and Richard Staglon and Ronald Meyers both of whom are retained by clubs in Trinidad & Tobago are all in full training in their respective countries and are being regularly monitored by reporting their performances to TD Whipple.
They will all be available for selection for the July CAC and Caribbean Championships.
Women’s Head Coach, Alton Agard, who led the Women’s Sevens team to two successive Caribbean Championships will be returning home to lead the team’s final preparation for the July and August competitions.
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