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“National Female hockey team has all the skills” – Coach Shiv Jagday
Coach Shiv Jagday addressing the National female hockey team during Thursday night’s training session.
Guyana’s National female hockey team which will be competing in the Barbados Hockey Federation (BHF) International Women’s Hockey series from June 28th to July 1st have had the opportunity to undergo training sessions by the visiting, world renowned Coach Shiv Jagday.
The Barbados series will see Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago along with the home team going at each other for the title in the tournament that is sanctioned by the Pan American Hockey Federation (PAHF).
The tournament will be a good warm-up for the upcoming Central America and Caribbean (CAC) games that will be held in Colombia next month, where the three teams are billed to compete.
Coach Jagday learned his hockey in his native India but has coached at the international level in both the USA and Canada. Shiv has been conducting clinics and coaching teams for the past 40 years.
After a successful stint in the 1980s as the Canadian men’s national team coach where he led Canada to its most successful international period of two Olympic appearances, two World Cups and two Pan American gold medals, Jagday branched out into developmental coaching worldwide. His first such assignment was to Guyana in 1988 at the invitation of then President of the Guyana Hockey Board of Control, Chris Fernandes. Coach Shiv visited Guyana on several subsequent occasions in the 1980s and was instrumental in the development of the sport during that period.
Following Coach Jagday’s training session at the Georgetown Cricket Club’s artificial turf on Shiv Chanderpaul Drive with the national female hockey team on Thursday night, he explained to Kaieteur Sport that the Guyanese ladies technical ability is sound but their greatest challenge will be self-belief.
The Canada-based coach praised the works the current men’s and women’s coach have both done with the ladies but noted that some work also needs to be conducted, “In the tactical awareness department which will help the decision making skills (of the team). They (
Coach Shiv Jagday after Thursday’s training session with the National ladies at GCC.
the national women) have skills, they have everything.”
Jagday who has been in the management of some of the biggest hockey nations in the world further stated the state of hockey in Guyana, “It’s very encouraging and it’s improving. They (the Guyana Hockey Board) have a junior programme for a junior national team and if they keep on working like this, in the next few years they will start seeing results.”
The players shortlisted for the team that will depart for the ‘land of the flying fish’ on June 27th are: Marisha Fernandes (C), Alysa Xavier (GK), Gabriella Xavier, Minsodia Culpepper, Marzana Fiedtkou Trisha Woodroffe, Nicole Eastman, Ulrica Sutherland, Vanessa Pires, Ashley DeGroot, Dominique DeGroot, Samantha Fernandes, Princessa Wilkie, Dacia Woodroffe, Shebiki Baptiste, Bushanie Kaladeen and Tekeisha DeLeon. (Calvin Chapman)
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