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National Women’s squad commences preparation for PAHF Challenge

Apr 27, 2011 Sports

The Guyana Hockey Board has shortlisted 22 top female players to commence training for the upcoming Pan American Hockey Federation (PAHF) Challenge scheduled for July 31 – August 7 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
According to an e-mail received, training commenced at the beginning of April at both the GCC ground and the National Gymnasium under the guidance of national coach Philip Fernandes and his assistant Rawl Davson.
The release added that this year’s squad consists largely of players who participated in the Central American and Caribbean Games in 2010 where Guyana was ranked in 8th position and emerged in 6th place.
Despite being the only nation in the tournament without an artificial hockey pitch, Guyana’s performance, which included a 1-1 draw against bronze medallists Barbados and a narrow 0-1 loss to fifth placed Jamaica, came in for high praise from PAHF officials in attendance.
The PAHF Challenge is a newly instituted tournament which serves as a qualifier for the highly regarded World Cup qualifier, the Pan American Cup.
The top six teams in the Pan American region have already qualified for the Cup and so the PAHF Challenge will be a battle among the remaining teams for the final two positions.
Guyana, it is anticipated will have a difficult task competing against several teams that are ranked higher on the Pan American table.  They include Uruguay, Cuba, Brazil, Barbados and Jamaica among others.  While Guyana has never played against Uruguay and Cuba, in their last meeting they lost to both Brazil (2005) and Jamaica (2010) and have drawn against Barbados (2010).
According to Coach Fernandes, Cuba and Uruguay are probably the strongest teams in the competition, while Brazil has also recently been the beneficiary of a great deal of financing and resources from the International Hockey Federation (FIH) and the Brazilian Olympic Committee (BOC) in preparation for the 2016 Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro.
In addition to the successful national team of 2010, the GHB have included in their squad one overseas-based player as a possible addition and also several promising junior players who will benefit from the training with a view to ensuring longevity of the team.
The final squad will be selected before the end of June from the players called.
Those called are: Alysa Xavier, Natalie Hing, Jonelle Webster, Trisha Woodroffe, Tiffany Solomon, Vashema Bourne, Tricia Fiedtkou, Marzena Fiedtkou, Talia Fiedtkou, Marisha Rodrigues, Maria Munroe, Chantelle Fernandes, Amanda Garnett, Ulrica Sutherland, Gabriella Xavier, Dominique DeGroot, Kerensa Fernandes, Avonda James, Leigh Sandison, Samantha Fernandes, Macaela Harding and Ashley DeGroot.

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