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Afterschool Basketball Programme set for colossal launch

Dec 10, 2010 Sports

– Albouystown/Charlestown to take on North Ruimveldt

By Edison Jefford
The Bobby’s Afterschool Basketball Programme is set for an intense launch that will feature one of the most anticipated rivalries in local basketball with two titans that has never been brought to fore to settle one and for all the question of the best ward.
The National Inter-Ward Champions, Albouystown/Charlestown take on Georgetown champions North Ruimveldt in the feature game on December 29 as part of the official launch of a complete and needed schools’ extracurricular basketball programme.
The programme will begin the week after school commences following the Holidays in January, but according to Coordinator, Robert ‘Bobby’ Cadogan, it is an initiative that is long overdue as a result of a shortfall in the next generation of quality players.
Cadogan said that he has already received the support of the National Sports Commission and is engaging Director of Sport, Neil Kumar in several discussions on the role Government will play in the project aimed at protecting the future of local basketball.
“We don’t have a schools programme with structure right now and I would imagine it would take some time before the Ministry of Education and other stakeholders formalise something for those schools in need so we have to make a start,” Cadogan said.
Speaking with Kaieteur Sport yesterday, the well-exposed basketball coach, who benefited from training in Hungary and Mexico at different periods in his career, believes that it is time for some aggressive approaches to restoring the structure in the sport.
The Courts Pacesetters Head Coach and Secretary of the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association informed that he will use the Burnham Basketball Court and National Gymnasium to conduct his sessions that will include more fundamental training.
“This is not a one-man thing. I am not doing this alone. I will be using the expertise of lots of former national players and coaches. I think everybody wants to see basketball develop to this is more or less a collaborative effort among stakeholders,” he noted.
As such, he said there will be a fitting launch of the event at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall when Albouystown, who are the Mackeson national champions take on North Ruimveldt, the team that won the HJTV Georgetown Inter-Ward Championship.
Before that colossal game, there will be a supporting game with Georgetown Veterans taking on Linden’s Veterans in the Stanislaus Hadmon memorial. The aim of the launch is symbolic in that is marks a transition from the past to the present and future.
HJTV, Windjammer International Hotel, Regal Stationary and Supplies, Curtains and Draperies Designs, Haynes Foundation and Trendsetter Auto and Electrical Spares are among the sponsors that are onboard the December 29 ‘Night of the Champions’.

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