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John Deere sponsors ladies hockey uniforms

Jul 23, 2011 Sports

“Nothing runs like a Deere” were the words of John Deere Managing Director, Mr. Renger Van Dijk, “and I hope you girls will run the same way on the field in Rio.”
At a simple presentation at the company’s headquarters, the CEO also expressed his company’s pleasure to be associated with the Guyana Women’s National Hockey Team which has been undergoing rigorous training for the past 5 months training in preparation for the PAHF Challenge being staged in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from July 30 to August 7.
John Deere is one of two uniform co-sponsors of the women’s national hockey team and presented the branded uniforms.
This is the first time that Farm Supply and General Equipment, the local agents for the John Deere brand, has been a sponsor of hockey and Vice-president of the Guyana Hockey Board and team manager, Rawl Davson, expressed the sincere gratitude of the Board for their support. Davson expressed the board’s pleasure at being associated with a quality brand like John Deere which is known for dependability and expressed his hope that Guyana can depend on the women’s hockey team to bring success and glory to the Golden Arrowhead.
The team is expected to compete against hosts Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bermuda for a place in the PAHF World Cup qualifier scheduled for 2013.
Guyana is an unknown quantity having played very little international hockey over the past 25 years and will be facing a tough task of trying to break into the Pan American top 8 ranked teams.
The two teams making the finals of the PAHF Challenge in Rio will complete the Pan American top 8 teams and will compete in the World Cup Qualifier.
The team is scheduled to depart on July 28 by bus to Suriname but will not arrive in Rio until the following day after more than 24 hours of travel.
That will give them one day of rest to recover before their opener against Paraguay on July 31.

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