Business School TT contest back on GTTA calendar

Mar 13, 2014 Sports

– tournament serves off tomorrow at Gymnasium

The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) launched the 2014 edition of the Business School Mini Cadet, Cadet and Junior Team’s Table Tennis Tournament with GTTA President, Godfrey Munroe stating that the annual event is crucial to players’ development.
The tournament, which is set to begin tomorrow at the National Gymnasium, features students under age 18 and will run until March 17 with about 150 students from the 20 schools scheduled to participate.

GTTA President, Godfrey Munroe (second, right), James Bovell (on his right) and Director of Sport, Neil Kumar share the head table at the launch with other officials yesterday at the National Gymnasium.

“This tournament is truly critical to the success of our activities and the programmes of GTTA in the sense that it specifically targets our youth; we have a young nucleolus of talent in the schools and to bring them together in competition is quite pivotal to advancing the sport,” Munroe stated, following the return of the tournament after a one year hiatus.
The Business School-sponsored competition has been in existence for eight years. The Managing Director of the Business School, James Bovell believes that the competition remains beneficial to developing student-athletes in table tennis across Guyana.
“As an educational institution we want to be able to play our role in terms of not only developing table tennis talent, but also enhancing and fostering those values that would make students better students and better citizens of Guyana,” Bovell said.
As a result, Bovell indicated to those present that the Business School is pleased to have a chance to partner with the association. Also present was Director of Sport, Neil Kumar, who believes the tournament is crucial to the development of youths.
“We have to have a nursery, which is the reservoir for national players, and the more we expose our students and the more we can expose them very young, it means that very young table tennis players will be emerging through competitive table tennis,” Kumar said.