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Cadogan launches Afterschool Basketball Programme
IT'S HERE!!! The Robert Cadogan Afterschool Basketball Programme is finally here. Sitting from left at yesterday's launch, Cecil Chin, Robert Cadogan, Neil Kumar and Melroy Fitzalbert is joined by the other coaches on the panel, standing behind them.
By Edison Jefford
After concept matched resources over months of fine-tuning, Robert ‘Bobby’ Cadogan launched his Afterschool Basketball Programme yesterday with the National Sports Commission leading a list of stakeholders that have pledged support for the programme.
In his remarks, Director of Sport, Neil Kumar indicated that the Sports Commission and Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport are fully behind the activity since they are convinced that the forum will serve local and schools’ basketball in astronomical ways.
“We are giving it (the programme) our unflinching support. When Bobby came to me, I told him that the idea to have the programme is good and we will run with it. This clinic will be great for basketball. It is different from what we are doing,” Kumar said.
“I am totally committed to this programme. I think that it will be good. If we have to put up the necessary backboards to get things going on other basketball courts, I will support you. Just give us what you need and we will get it done,” he pledged yesterday.
The Director of Sport stated that he was enthused to see individuals such as FIBA accredited and former Caribbean Basketball Confederation Technical Director, Cecil Chin, who was there at the launch, back involved with the sport after re-migrating to Guyana.
Kumar said that he and Chin were colleagues in the early stages of the Inter-Guiana Games and were collectively responsible for the resuscitation of the tri-nation event.
He said that the forum will serve the junior national basketball teams well in the future.
“I was impressed with the performance of the national team this year at the Inter-Guiana Games and this is what I want you to know, even as I see a few girls here, that there is an incentive for you to wear your national colours,” Kumar encouraged the audience.
The Director of Sport said that he will give an incentive for the participation of more girls in the sport since that is an area that needs strengthening. Robert ‘Bobby’ Cadogan informed that there will be a structured effort to address those areas of weakness.
“The idea to have this programme was based on an evaluation of the sport over the last 10 years and we know that there is no structure and basketball needs this programme. The aim is to teach the fundamentals of the game and address academics,” Cadogan said.
The Hungary and Mexico-trained National Coach informed that the programme is not intended to interfere with the schools’ curriculum and informed that without a sound academic backdrop, players would not be able to think and make decisions on the court.
The Afterschool Basketball Programme will commence on Monday at the National Gymnasium between 3:30pm and 5:00pm. Hits and Jams Television, Windjammers, Regal Stationery, Trend Setters Auto and Electrical Spares, Curtains and Draperies Designs, Dr. Colin Watson, Express Shipping and Brokerage, D.C Jammers and Haynes Foundation are the major sponsors of the programme.
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