National Men’s Hockey Squad reduced to 22

Aug 13, 2015 Sports

The local contingent of the national men’s hockey squad, presently preparing for the Pan American Challenge in Chicklayo, Peru from October 3-11, 2015, has been reduced to 22 players ahead of final selection. The squad has been in training since the beginning of April, with strength & agility sessions conducted three times per week by physical trainer Rudolph Blackman, in addition to field sessions, four times per week. The players spent the first two months improving their individual techniques and one on one attacking and defensive skills, before moving onto small unit play. They will spend the next three weeks focusing on positional play and situation specific systems and tactics.
Goalkeepers Anthony Cole and Timothy Baker have been brought back into the squad to make competition for the position more intense, since only one goalkeeper will be selected in the final team. Also vying for spots on the final sixteen will be England based players Marvin Dannett and Matthew Taylor. Both men were in Guyana recently to be assessed by the coaching staff, they also played matches with the local players. Nine of the twenty two players named were also part of Guyana’s national under-21 squad that placed second at the Player Tournament in Trinidad and Tobago over the weekend. The final selection of sixteen players is expected to take place the first week of September.
Guyana is scheduled to play their preliminary matches against Uruguay on October 3rd and against Venezuela on October 4th, in what is expected to be a highly charged affair. The nine team competition will also feature Barbados, Brazil, Ecuador, Panama, Peru and Puerto Rico. The top two teams in the competition will qualify for the Pan American Cup scheduled for 2017 in the USA.
This will be the first time Guyana’s National Men’s team will be competing in an international outdoor tournament since 2007, when they won silver and bronze medals at the ALBA Games and the Caribbean Cup respectively. Guyana made a successful return to international Indoor competition last year when they won Bronze at the Indoor Pan American Cup in Montevideo, Uruguay.
22 Man Local Squad: Field Players – Orland Semple, Stuart Gonsalves, Andrew Xavier, Mark Sargeant, Kareem McKenzie, Daniel Hooper, Shane Samuels, Robert France, Devin Munroe, Randy Hope, Colonel Heywood, Rayon Branford, Jamarj Assanah, Aroydy Branford, Andrew Stewart, Leon Bacchus, Hilton Chester and Ato Greene.
Goalkeepers – Medroy Scotland, Jason Hoyte, Anthony Cole and Timothy Baker.

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