National Hockey teams double up training sessions – Will not be affected by weather

THE Junior and Senior National Hockey teams are enjoying the use of the National Stadium at Providence for training and practice sessions ahead of several International events. Speaking to the media recently, President of the Guyana Hockey Board Phillip Fernandes said that the weather however is playing a factor that has hindered some training time as well as some facilities that are not up to standard.
“The weather has been a real challenge for us, we also have the additional hindrance of not having the use of the gymnasium because of the poor lighting so even though there might be a little bit of hockey training from time to time, a proper national session unfortunately that facility is not readily available.
So we have been luckily getting the use of the national stadium and a small area at GCC and those guys have been putting in a lot of work”. Fernandes noted
He stated that the units have added a morning session in an attempt to double up on training and he is pleased with the efforts of the unit.
The GHB boss said they are sending a junior and senior team to two tournaments in the coming months and he is pleased with the effort they are making, despite the obvious shortcomings. “they are two situations where there is a junior team is scheduled to depart in a few weeks.
That team is going to Trinidad and Tobago for an interim training tournament , where they are going to be teams coming from elsewhere in the world and they are going to be competing there but that is a makeup tournament to give them experience for the Pan American championship and next year’s junior championships.
The senior team is also in training with the juniors and they are actually going to Peru in September so they have got a bit more time.
In closing Fernandes noted that administratively, the sport has been pushing forward with trying to garner as much exposure as possible for both teams as they move closer to the deadlines for their respective tournaments.

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