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Coach Ince confident Guyana can make it 12 in a row at CASA C/Ships in Cayman Islands
By Sean Devers
At 72, National Squash Coach Carl Ince still looks like 60 and he disclosed that Coaching is one of the
Coach Carl Ince
reasons for this. Seeing the development of the youngsters, the Unity that Squash creates and the involvement of the parents are factors that keep him going as a Coach. Ince started playing Squash late in life at age 40 but soon switched to Coaching.
The national team will defend their CASA Junior team title in the Cayman Islands from July 15-22, a title this country has won 11 consecutive times and Coach Ince sat down with Kaieteur Sports at the Georgetown Club where the Woodpecker Products National Junior tournament sponsored by Digicel is being played and expressed general satisfaction with how preparations are going.
The four-day tournament which concludes today is being used to select the players who will depart Guyana for the Cayman Islands and the tournament is the second Junior Championship organised by the Guyana Squash Association (GSA) for the year.
Ince credited Guyana’s dominance in Caribbean Squash to the quality of the players but more importantly the stable and excellently managed Administration of the GSA.
“Guyana continues to do well in the Caribbean because we did not keep changing the Administration and we have people who love Squash and support the development of the game which can be very costly,” said Inch, who has two Squash Courts at his home on the Linden Highway and where players go for weekend training sessions because of fewer distractions.
Talking about his team’s 11-year reign as the number one Junior Team in the Caribbean, Ince said the others Countries have been improving.
“The last three years the competition has gotten tougher but we managed to get through. We had to start training earlier and with more intensity. We now have an assistant Coach which has helped tremendously,” informed Ince.
“I am very satisfied. Once the squad is selected we will have six weeks from the end of May. Playing this tournament here means that the players have to semi-peek and hopefully fully peek by the time we get to the Cayman Islands,” Ince said.
Ince explained that except for last year the girls generally performed better than the boys but because both genders won matches Guyana always emerged as team Champions.
“The biggest challenge is getting the new comers ready which is always more difficult since in age group tournaments when the outstanding players become overage it’s sometimes difficult to get others ready to replace them. But the same can be said of the other teams also,” Ince pointed out.
“They are fit and getting fitter and we are no longer concentrating on technique just tactics. I won’t single out anyone although I am expecting great things from certain players. I think we have a very good crop of players and I am confident they we can dominate once again as long as we give our best effort,” Ince noted.
“While I am pleased with the standard of Squash in Guyana at both Senior and Junior levels, I feel if the game is to really improve we need to get the already qualified Coaches in the schools because that’s where you find the talent and widen the pool of players,” Ince concluded.
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