THE Guyana Karate College (GKC) yesterday secured a sponsor for its International Karate Diagaku (IKD) World Cup 2015 campaign. Fly Jamaica Airways yesterday handed over two tickets for two students of the GKC who were both champions in the 2014 edition of the competition.
The tickets were delivered by the Company’s Marketing Representative Youlanda Foster to one of the students – Aliya Wong.
Speaking after receiving the tickets, vice-president and senior instructor of the GKC, Sensei Jeffrey Wong, indicated that the college is thankful for the support given by the airline and it will go a long way to ensure that the students get to participate in the tournament.
Just recently, Sensei Wong spoke to Chronicle Sport when he indicated that he is impressed with the work of the students.
“We are coming up very sharply. I’m very surprised with the junior and the senior teams. They are very excited and very pumped-up ahead of the championship. Intense training both mentally and physically is what I am preparing them for now and hopefully everything goes well. As you know we’ve been preparing for the tournament over the last four to five months and it’s going to be very successful for the IKD.”
Sensei Wong added that this year, he is looking for the top honour and doesn’t feel that second place will cut it. He said, “Last World Cup as you know we got second place and we got second with 23 medals but we were short (of first place) by about seven or eight medals. Right now we have more students taking part so we hope to cop those extra places to secure first place.”
The two tickets will go towards Aliya and Tishana Wong, who will both depart with the team on July 10.

By Stephan Sookram