Women’s national hockey team to start training in early January
By Calvin Chapman
Kaieteur News- The national women’s hockey program is expected to resume on January 6th, 2021 in preparation for two major assignments in June and July, that year.
This was confirmed by the women’s national head coach Phillip Fernandes, who highlighted that hockey, like other sports, was not immune from the effects of the covid-19 pandemic and he and the men’s program coach; Robert Fernandes had to cancel training despite continuing efforts.
Both tournaments include the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) games that will be held in Bermuda in July and the Pan American Indoor Championship!
National women’s hockey training to resume on January 6.
it will hit off in the United States in June.
Due to financial constraints, the Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) had chosen to lose the 2021 Pan Am Championship which will be held in Philadelphia but the Pan Am Challenge they were supposed to play in Peru this year has been postponed since then.
This has now created the opportunity for the GHB to compete in the Pan Am C / ship.
Fernandes, who is also head of the GHB, shared with Kaieteur Sport that although applications for the Pan Am Championship, which Guyana hosted in 2017, have closed, he has written to the body and is optimistic that these will be given approval unusual circumstances created by the pandemic.
After adequate training, the coach is optimistic double of positive performances from the highly talented squad that will look fresh with most players being young stars.
Guyanese women finished sixth in the previous Pan Am Challenge in 2017 and settled for seventh place in the 2018 CAC Championship which kicked off in Baranquilla, Colombia.
Robert Fernandes, meanwhile, has told Kaieteur Sport that no date has yet been set for the National men to resume training.
Important events for the men in 2021 include the Pan American Junior Championships set for April 12-25 in Santiago, Chile.