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Seven schools to compete for royalty as Seventh VV Royals C/ship looms
By Edison Jefford
Seven schools will compete for royalty when the Victory Valley (VV) Royals Basketball Club rolls out the red carpet Friday to usher in its seventh edition of the marquee Schools’ Basketball Championships in the basketball-savvy Mining Town of Linden.
The competition will, consequentially, restore competitive grassroots basketball to the town that had not seen competitive basketball since last August. The absence has made anticipation greater as the VV Royals continues to fine tune preparations for the event.
There is no doubt that the teams will have various points to prove as the town looks for a re-birth of both competitive basketball and new talents. There will be no Orin ‘Six Head’ Rose or Akeem ‘The Dream’ Kanhai this year and that opens the door for discovery.
Who will be the MVP, the ‘new kid (s) on the block’, the ‘knight (s) in shining armor’? Who will have a breakout season? Those are questions that will be answered over weeks of intense contest, and rivalry that begins Friday with an official launch of the occasion.
With the absence of the McKenzie Sports Club Basketball Court, which plunged the sport in the community into the abyss, it is likely that the Mackenzie High School court could be an alternate venue for the important fixture on the basketball calendar in Linden.
The VV Royals have disclosed that New Silvercity Secondary; McKenzie High School; Linden Foundation; Kwakwani Secondary; Wisburg Secondary; Linden Technical Institute and Wismar/ Christiansburg Secondary are the seven schools for the event this year.
The seven schools that will collect their uniforms at Friday’s launch will be displayed in uniform at the Opening of the tournament, which is scheduled for Monday. “We’re expecting a good turn out for this event,” Royals stated in a correspondence yesterday.
The returning champs are Linden Foundation. New Silvercity are runner-ups while Kwakwani in third place rounds up the returning top three teams. The competition to dispose these teams from repeating, or even bettering, their positions will be rife next week.
Under the stewardship of founding member and former coach of Guyana’s national female team, United States-based, Linden ‘Sancho’ Alphonso, the VV Royals Schools’ competition started in 2004 and progressed steadily without missing a year to date.
According to the Royals, the Championship was initiated after an observation that Linden lacked a developmental schools’ basketball tournament as a national stronghold in the sport. Hence, the VV Royals tournament’s foundation is to proliferate basketball.
The overseas-based sponsors of the tournament includes Arlon Josiah, Maxie Stephens, Leon Moe, Orin Louison, Lennox Allicock, Audrey Singh, Shenella Singh, Haynes Foundation, Copy King Printing, Patrick Hendricks, Ms Anita Ramdass, Mr. Terrence George of Far End Carib Bar and Kenneth Chapman.
The local sponsors are Digicel, Ministry of Housing, Banks DIH, James & Sons, Church’s Chicken, Bernard Variety Store and LinMine Secretariat (A Division of NICIL).
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