Guyana Volleyball Federation congratulates GOA Awardee

Apr 06, 2013 Sports

The Guyana Volleyball Federation (GVF) extends congratulations to Mr. Gregory Rambarran, President of the Berbice Volleyball Association & V/President of the GVF, for receiving an award from the Guyana Olympic Association for his contribution to the development of sports in general and volleyball in particular.

Lenox Shuffler is flanked by Buxton Developer Mr. Robin Phillips (left) and Gregory Rambarran.

The award was presented to Mr. Rambarran at the GOA’s Appreciation & Awards Ceremony held recently at the Georgetown Club, Guyana.
Mr. Rambarran, a trained teacher with specialty in Physical Education, has been involved in sports since the early seventies and participated in several sports disciplines including, table tennis, cricket, volleyball, athletics, badminton, basketball, swimming, field hockey and football.
While attending the Government Teachers Training College he was the captain of the Volleyball team and was Badminton Singles Champion. He participated in the Inter-Varsity Games in Suriname in 1976. He served as manager/ coach for several swimming and athletics teams from the N/A-Canje District at the Guyana Teachers Union National Championships.
In 1987 he received accreditation as a FIVB Level 1 Coach and served as the coach for the Reg.6 Volleyball team and secretary of the BVA until 1991. He also accompanied representative teams in senior position on tour to Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, Venezuela and Brazil.
Rambarran, who has been associated with the administration of volleyball for over 37 years, is also a qualified referee. This is his second stint as president of the BVA having served from 1998 to 2000. He took up the mantle again in 2010 to present. He is also currently the Vice President of the GVF, a position which he has held for several stints. He also served as General Secretary and media representative of the GVF.
Mr. Rambarran is credited with reviving the sport of Volleyball in Berbice, and over the past 2 years the BVA has been able to produce the No 1 team in the country and can also boast of having the most affiliated clubs and holding the most competitions for males as well as females.
Gregory Rambarran is currently the Editor-in Chief/Producer/News Anchor for Channel 8 News and Part Owner of DTV-8 and still finds time to play volleyball at the recreational level.
During the ceremony GVF President, Lenox Shuffler also received kudos at the awards ceremony for mentoring a group of over 300 youths and enabling them to win the International Olympic Committee’s 2012 Trophy for Sports and Sustainable Development. The group named the Buxton Youth Community Developers was loud in praise of Shuffler, who adopted an initiative he first tried out with the GVF, called “The Soul Train for Peace and Unity through Sports and Culture”, to use volleyball as a catalyst to promote positive changes in the Buxton Community. (Samuel Whyte)