TCL/RHTY&SC Cricket Academy deemed a Success ...Anderson named top cricketer

TCL/RHTY&SC Cricket Academy deemed a Success …Anderson named top cricketer

Jul 27, 2014 Sports

The 16th annual Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC) Cricket Academy

The TCL/RHTY&SC Academy Top Performers pictured with TCL’s Eric Whaul and Cricket Coaches.

sponsored by Trinidad Cements Ltd (TCL) ended on a successful note on Thursday last with dozens of youths commended during a simple presentation at the St. Francis Community Developers Training Centre.
Berbice Under-15 Captain Kevelon Anderson was named cricketer-of-the-academy, while the other major awardees were Most Disciplined Player (Brent Lee Fraser), Most Committed (Sequan Cox), Best Batsman (Junior Sinclair), Best Bowler (Keith Simpson), Best Female (S. Grimmond) and Most Promising Player (Sampson Lewis).
Marketing Manager of TCL (Guy) Ltd Mr. Eric Whaul, in remarks at the closing, praised the RHTY&SC for hosting another successful academy under his company’s brand and stated that TCL was satisfied that its investment was meaningful.
Whaul, who described himself as a strong cricket fan, urged the young players to follow in the footsteps of his role models Alvin Kallicharran and Roy Fredricks. He also issued a challenge to cricket administrators in Guyana to make sure that there is an improvement in the standard of local cricket pitches as it was affecting the quality of the game.
Whaul disclosed that TCL was opened to continuing the sponsorship of the academy as it strongly believes in the development of youths.
Club Secretary/CEO Hilbert Foster in giving a comprehensive report on the academy, hailed it as a major success and even predicted that more national players would be produced by the club in the near future as a result of this investment.
The participants were under the supervision of Coaches Winston Smith and Delbert Hicks and Berbice senior Inter County player, Eon Hooper. Foster stated that the players received special coaching to improve their bowling, batting, wicket-keeping and fielding skills, while special emphasis was placed on improving physical fitness.
The cricketers, both male and female were also exposed to several power point presentations on topics such as HIV/AIDS, peer pressure, bio-mechanics, importance of discipline, importance of education, role of a sport ambassador and history of cricket.
Foster also urged the young cricketers to develop a love for the game and to nurture a formula of discipline, dedication, hard work and faith in the God they serve. Success, on the cricket field, Foster stated, can only be achieved by total dedication and discipline and he challenged the attentive players to listen to adhere to the advice of former players and positive role models.
Head coach Winston Smith stated that he was quite impressed with the rich pool of talent at the academy and urged the attendees to put into practice on a daily basis what they have learnt over the past two weeks.
He challenged them to practice hard and to widen their knowledge of the game by doing a lot of research. Office Manager and Head of the Club’s Cricket Development Committee, Moonish Singh, stated that the club would be using most of the new talent to form its Under-15 team for 2015 and to develop a nursery.
The eight top awardees received a collection of educational materials while every member of the cricket academy received a school bag under the RHTY&SC Pro-Education programme which seeks to assist students to stay in school and obtain an educational background.