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ITTF Director and Latin American TTU Committee official is Caribbean C/ships Referee
International Table Tennis Federation Umpire Expert and Director of Rules and Umpiring for the Latin American Table Tennis Union Latin America Rules and Judging Committee, Ms Yoanna Ramirez will serve as the referee for the 2019, 61st Caribbean Senior Caribbean Table Tennis championships and Pan American qualification event scheduled for the 23rd to 31st March at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, Homestretch Avenue.
Ramirez, the Bilingual Colombian table tennis expert who in 2018 conducted an ITTF Umpire Training and Certification Programme in Guyana in 2018 will be arriving in Guyana on the 20th to train umpires taking part in the championships while working with new umpires. Her presence is mandatory given the magnitude of the games.
Yoanna Ramirez
She has been working with Ms Candacy McKenzie National Female Coach of the year Sports awardee and Ms Leona Kyte national awardee female Sport, training them to become master trainers for Guyana’s table tennis. Her presence is also part the new ITTF and Latin America Table tennis Union umpire development strategy which seeks to build umpires model on a more practical approach to training, with umpires being given training close to competition to develop their capacity.
The training would be from the 21st to 23rd March, the championships start on the morning of the 24th with play in the Pan American Games trials and the Caribbean Championships commence on the 25th at 7:00pm.
Guyana will play host to the named championships, of significance is that this championships has been designated by the International Table Tennis Federation and Latin American Table Tennis Union as the qualification events for the 2019 Pan Am Cup scheduled for September this year in Puerto Rico and the 2019 Pan American Games scheduled for July August in Lima Peru.
This championships represent the first time Guyana is tasked with hosting a Pan American Games qualification event and will see teams from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Barbados St Vincent, St Kitts, Trinidad and Tobago, Aruba, Dominican Republic, St Lucia, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Suriname, French Guiana and Haiti, who has already confirmed their participation. This will result in over 175 athletes and officials coming to Guyana to participate in this prestigious event.
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