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GBA wants U-16 boxers in school to participate in future DDL tourneys
The Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) would make it mandatory for boxers involved in future Demerara Distillers Limited sponsored tournaments to be in school and have a decent academic background.
Steve Ninvalle
Speaking to President of the GBA, Steve Ninvalle yesterday, Kaieteur Sport was informed that the association will go that route. He stated that they will place emphasis on this as they promote education in sport to ensure more rounded sportsmen and women. This is the second year of the DDL junior boxing tourney and come next edition, which is set for October, young fighters will have to prove they are in school to get the chance to compete.
At the opening of this year’s second edition, Presidential Adviser Odinga Lumumba had made the call to the young fighters, that they must consider life after sport and be rounded persons. He had urged the association to make it a criteria for participation.
Ninvalle noted that this was indeed the right way to go and ensure the youngsters take their education seriously because this would not only make them rounded individuals but enhance their thinking capacity and uplift them in the years ahead.
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