GOA announces 98-member contingent for CAC games

Jul 13, 2018 Sports

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At their Lilliendaal Headquarters yesterday, the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) announced the 98 member contingent that will be competing at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean (CAC) games which will be held in Barranquilla, Colombia.
Out of the 98 members of the team, 79 of those are athletes and 19 are officials. At the games which will be competed from July 19 to August 3, the Golden Arrowhead will be represented by 10 sports disciplines namely, Badminton, Boxing, Athletics, Swimming, Cycling, Table Tennis, Rugby, Hockey, Taekwondo and Squash.
Apart from Swimming, all of the other disciplines had to qualify for the games and Chef-de-Mission, Deion Nurse, noted: “We expect our athletes to do their best and whatever else comes will be icing on the cake.”
The GOA will be funding all expenses for the trip and the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) Sevens’ team that is the only team to win Gold for Guyana at the CAC games (2010), are expected to do well this year.
Among those expected to do well are boxers Keevin Allicock (56 kg) and Colin ‘Superman’ Lewis (64 KG) and national Javelin record holder Leslain Baird who won silver at the South America Games last month.
University of the West Indies based (Mona Campus) Emmanuel Archibald will be looking to improve his personal best of 10.22 seconds in the 100m and more eyes will be on the rising star when he takes to the track rather than the high jump.
For squash, Guyana will be in the hands of former Caribbean Junior Champions Nyron Joseph along with Taylor Fernandes who will be spearheading their delegation. Although, men’s Hockey Coach Robert Fernandes stressed on the inexperience of his side, he did noted that the unit is ever improving, during the press conference yesterday.
In the qualification tournament, the men were robbed the opportunity to play for gold after a power issue forced the championship game to be abandoned at the University of West Indies’ (Mona Campus) Hockey Turf while the Women’s Hockey team won gold in the qualifiers last year.
The Rugby team will depart one week prior to the start of the tournament to better facilitate the acclimatisation of the high altitude conditions in Colombia.
See below the full contingent list for the CAC games:
Name                                                    Sport
Deion    Nurse                                    Chef -d-Mission
Philip     Fernandes                          Deputy Chef
Nalini     McKoy                  Administrator
Gokarn Ramdhani                           Badminton/Coach
Narayan Ramdhani                          Badminton/Athlete
Priyanna Ramdhani                         Badminton/Athlete
Jonathan Mangra                             Badminton/Athlete
Terrence Poole                 Boxing/Coach
Keevin Allicock                  Boxing/Athlete
Colin Lewis                                          Boxing/Athlete
Roland Thomas                 Taekwondo /Coach
Mark Choy                                          Taekwondo /Coach
Adrian Spellen                  Taekwondo /Athlete
Justin Choy                                         Taekwondo /Athlete
David Fernandes                              Squash Team Manager
Juanita Fernandes                           Squash Official
Ramon Chan-A-Sue                        Squash/Coach
Mary Fung-A-Fat                              Squash/Athlete
Ashley  Khalil                                     Squash/Athlete
Taylor    Fernandes                          Squash/Athlete
Sunil Seth                                            Squash/Athlete
Jason Khalil                                         Squash/Athlete
Nyron   Joseph                                  Squash/Athlete
Joseph  Britton                                  Cycling/Coach
Romello Crawford                           Cycling/Athlete
Matthew Khan                                  Table Tennis/Coach
Godfrey Munroe                             Table Tennis/Coach
Priscilla Greaves                               Table Tennis/Athlete
Trenace Lowe                                    Table Tennis/Athlete
Christopher Franklin                       Table Tennis/Athlete
Natalie Cummings                           Table Tennis/Athlete
Shemar Britton                 Table Tennis/Athlete
Nigel Bryan                                         Table Tennis/Athlete
Joel Alleyne                                        Table Tennis/Athlete
Chelsea Edghill                  Table Tennis/Athlete
Robert Fernandes                          Hockey/Coaches
Jamarj   Assanah                               Hockey/Athlete
Aroydy Branford                              Hockey/Athlete
Rayon   Branford                              Hockey/Athlete
Jerazeno Bell                                     Hockey/Athlete
Hilton    Chester                                Hockey/Athlete
Marvin Dannett                                Hockey/Athlete
Jason DeSantos                                Hockey/Athlete
Robert  France                                  Hockey/Athlete
Randy   Hope                                     Hockey/Athlete
Kareem McKenzie                           Hockey/Athlete
Mark Sargeant                                  Hockey/Athlete
Meshach Sargeant                          Hockey/Athlete
Medroy Scotland                             Hockey/Athlete
Andrew Stewart                               Hockey/Athlete
Steven  Xavier                                   Hockey/Athlete
Dwayne Scott                                    Hockey/Athlete
LaToya Fordyce                 Hockey/Manager
Damon Woodroffe                          Hockey/Coach
Shebeki Baptiste                              Hockey/Athlete
Vanessa Pires                                    Hockey/Athlete
Min Sodia Culpepper                      Hockey/Athlete
Ashley  DeGroot                             Hockey/Athlete
Ulrica     Sutherland                          Hockey/Athlete
Dominique DeGroot                       Hockey/Athlete
Dacia Woodroffe                              Hockey/Athlete
Trisha    Woodroffe                         Hockey/Athlete
Nicole   Eastman                               Hockey/Athlete
Marisha Fernandes                         Hockey/Athlete
Princess Wilkie                  Hockey/Athlete
Samantha Fernandes                     Hockey/Athlete
Alysa Xavier                                        Hockey/Athlete
Marzana Fiedtkou                           Hockey/Athlete
Gabriella Xavier                                Hockey/Athlete
Bushani Kaladeen                            Hockey/Athlete
Sham Johnny                                     Athletics/Coach
Troy Doris                                            Athletics/Athlete
Winston George                               Athletics/Athlete
Jenea McCammon                          Athletics/Athlete
Leslain Baird                                       Athletics/Athlete
Emanuel Archibald                          Athletics/Athlete
Peter Green                                       Rugby/Manager
Lawrence Adonis                             Rugby/Coach
Dwayne Schroeder                         Rugby/Captain
Claudius Butts                   Rugby/Athlete
Avery    Corbin                                   Rugby/Athlete
Richard Staglon                 Rugby/Athlete
Peabo   Hamilton                              Rugby/Athlete
Patrick  King                                       Rugby/Athlete
Ronald Mayers                  Rugby/Athlete
Jamal     Angus                                   Rugby/Athlete
Godfrey Broomes                            Rugby/Athlete
Rondel McArthur                             Rugby/Athlete
Ryan Gonsalves                                Rugby/Athlete
Osei McKenzie                  Rugby/Athlete
Paul Mahaica                                     Swimming/Coach
Andrew Fowler                 Swimming/Athlete
Jamila    Sanmoogan                        Swimming/Athlete

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