West Virginia State University’s Latisha Parris conducts clinic for 20 Regma Primary girls at Retrieve Hard Court

May 20, 2025 Sports

West Virginia University’s Latisha Parris conducts clinic for 20 Regma Primary girls at Retrieve Hard Court

Ms Latisha Parris at left going through basic training with pupils of Regma Primary School pupils.

Kaieteur Sports- Having been visiting Guyana since she was five years old, the West Virginia State University’s basketball player, 21 year old Ms. Latisha Parris, last Friday afternoon conducted an introductory basketball clinic, which attracted twenty pupils from the Regma Primary School at the Retrieve Hard Court in the mining town of Linden.

West Virginia State University’s basketball player Ms. Latisha Parris

Latisha, whose parents Lennox and Sadina Parris are from Linden, was born in the United States and always wanted to give back to the sport of basketball, in the hometown of her parents.

Ms. Latisha Parris related, “I was coming to Guyana since I was five years old. So, I always wanted to give back, to just teach them the basics, to expand the sport of basketball. While I know it is not as popular as it is in the United States, as it is here in Guyana, I felt committed to help.”
Assisting Latisha was founder of the Abdulla Hamid Basketball Foundation, Mr. Abdulla ‘Zico’ Hamid, who is a past National player and coach of Guyana.

Front row left: Ms. Dawn McCammon Barker, Regma Primary School teacher accepts basketballs from Ms. Latisha Parris and Abdulla Hamid at right.

Hamid described the two-hour clinic stating: “Today’s session was the beginning of the first, which we hope it can continue every year, annually for young women in Linden. Maybe, we can see professional players birthed from this programme and to me it’s a good initiative.”

Region 10 (Upper Demerara/ Upper Berbice) Regional Education Department was represented by one of its education officials Ms. Dawn McCammon-Barker, who currently is also the president of the Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) and she quipped: “The LABA and Department of Education are extremely grateful for this initiative. Normally, such clinics are done without any emphasis on our females, but this was one that targeted our girls and this being for our primary girls, is most commendable.”

According to Latisha’s parents, Lennox and Sadina Parris, this is expected to be an annual basketball programme to assist the sport in the bauxite mining community

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