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GSA announces team for 2022 Senior Pan Am Championships
By Zaheer Mohamed
Kaieteur News – The Guyana Squash Association (GSA) has announced its team to represent Guyana at the upcoming Pan American Senior Squash Championship which is slated for Guatemala from April 3-9.
The Guyana Squash team that will attend the championship. From left is Garfield Wiltshire (Coach/Manager), Alex Arjoon, Ashley Khalil, Gabby Fraser, Nicolette Fernandes, Kristian Jeffrey and Samuel Ince-Carvalhal. Missing are Mary Fung-A-Fat, Jason Khalil and coach Ramon Chan-A-sue.
The team which is set to depart Guyana on April 1 reads; Alex Arjoon, Jason Ray Khalil, Kristian Jeffrey, Samuel Ince-Carvalhal, Nicolette Fernandes, Mary Fung-A-Fat, Ashley Khalil and Gabby Fraser. Garfield Wiltshire has been charged with the duty of Team Manager. Additionally, Alywn Callender will be attending the event as a referee.
In an invited comment, National female champion, Nicolette Fernandes, said the team’s objective is to qualify for the Central American and Caribbean games next year. She expressed confidence in both the male and female teams achieving the feat.
“The bigger nations like the USA and Canada, who even though they will be present at the tournament, are not in contention to qualify for the CAC games, so they are not our main competition. It is a very unknown championship because it’s has been about three or four years of no international competition so no one really knows where the other nations stand, but we are prepared,” she said.
Fernandes stated that the association has made a stern effort to bring people back into the sport which has done wonders for the players.
“This championship came up pretty sudden, but we were already in the process of getting back into playing at a high level due to our league,” she pointed out.
Samuel Ince-Carvalhal also expressed confidence in his ability to do well in the tournament. “I have been doing a lot of training and squash specific movement and a lot of programmes with the senior players and I have been able to experience long matches,” he stated.
Ince-Carvalhal indicated that this is his first Senior PanAm Championship. “I am not really sure about the level of play of the teams that have qualified for the PanAm before, so we will go in with our best foot forward. I am confident with the way I am playing, I will gain a lot of experience and I am looking forward to the tournament,” he posited.
In an invited comment Lorraine Ince-Carvalhal of the GSA, she said that this is the first major tournament since the commencement of the pandemic and the team has been training hard to catch up for lost time.
“We have a squash league running that has been extremely valuable in the training and preparation for the Championships,” she added.
“Due to covid, we are going into the tournament not too sure of the level of the other teams. We don’t know how covid has affected their training etc, but our team will be going out there to do their best for Guyana,” she disclosed.
Meanwhile, Maisa DaSilva from Cosmetics Beauty World handed out beauty and sports products to the entire team while Charisma Salisbury from Excel Guyana handed over a cheque, all in support of the team.
The GSA has expressed gratitude to its sponsors which are The Guyana Olympic Association (GOA), National Sports Commission (NSC), Cosmetics Beauty World, Modern Optical, Excel Guyana, John Fernandes and Guystar.
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