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RHTYSC Cricket teams to host annual Republic Bank Summer Camp and Bakewell/ Busta Cricket Academy next month
Kaieteur Sports – The cricket teams of Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, from the seventeenth of July, would be hosting their annual Grade Six Summer Camp and the 34th edition of the club’s annual cricket academy as the very vibrant club continues its list of youth development programmes. The club has secured sponsorship for both events with Republic Bank renewing their support for the Grade Six Summer Camp for the 14th successive year, while the cricket academy would be supported by long time sponsor Bakewell and the Guyana Beverage Company.
Shemaine Campbelle
RHTYSC Secretary Hilbert Foster stated, that, the grade six summer camp would be held at the Rose Hall Town Primary School and would cater for a total of one hundred students who recently wrote the Grade Six exams. The main objective is to assist them to make a successful transition to secondary school. The students would be taught four subjects in the month long camp and would be exposed to topics of importance that would prepare them for secondary school. Each student attending the camp would receive a school bag along with educational materials. The best student would also receive an electric bike while four other students would receive a bicycle as prizes.
The 34th cricket academy would cater for 120 youth cricketers between the ages of eight to nineteen years and would be held at the Area H Ground from 9am to 1pm daily. A panel of cricket coaches headed by Winston Smith would conduct the two weeks academy.
Foster explained that the club would be working along with the Guyana Police Force B Division to attract interested youths across region Six. Entrance to the academy shall be free, while snacks would be provided daily, while the RHTYSC would provide all cricket gear and educational materials.
RHTYSC Secretary, Hilbert Foster
The youth cricketers would be involved in several lectures on a wide range of topics including drug abuse, history of the game, rules of cricket, personal manners, table etiquette and public speaking. The top cricketer of the academy would carry home a gold medallion worth a hundred thousand dollars, while another twelve would receive a collection of gifts including designer clothing, personal care hampers, cycles and household items.
Like the grade six summer camp, each participant would take home a school bag with educational materials.
The cricket academy, since 1990, has been the foundation of the club’s success which include winning one hundred titles at all levels and a total of one hundred and twenty players for Berbice, Guyana and West Indies. Among the players who passed through the academy were Esaun Crandon, Assad Fudadin, Royston Crandon, Kelvon Anderson, Kevin Sinclair, Askay Homraj, Dominic Rikhi, Shemaine Campbelle, Sheneta Grimmond, Junior Sinclair, Erva Giddings and Slyus Tyndall.
Foster would like to encourage all youths to register as early as possible as there is only a few remaining spots available. Non club members, after the completion of the academy, would be given the opportunity to join Guyana’s leading youth and sports organisation once they satisfy the strict discipline guidelines.
The two events would be organised by the Farfan and Mendes under 15, Poonai Pharmacy under 13, Bakewell under 17, Pepsi Under 10, Metro Females and NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour First Division teams.
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