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THE Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) held a press briefing yesterday in connection with their team that finished 3rd place overall at the recently concluded 4th Caribbean Regional Table Tennis Federation Pre-cadet and Cadet Championships.
Team Guyana secured one gold medal and six bronze medals and finished behind Puerto Rico and The Dominican Republic. The GTTA believes that the team did very good considering the factors and challenges that they face.
 The Pre-cadet and Cadet team display their spoils for photographers at yesterday’s press briefing. | |
The U-10 boys’ team featuring Kyle Edghill, Elishaba Johnson and Rajiv Muneshwar secured the lone gold for Guyana, an achievement which the GTTA is not taking lightly.
Godfrey Munroe, Secretary of GTTA, said “this success can be measured as high because they came up against the best teams in the Caribbean.”
National Coach Linden Johnson and Munroe said that the association will be undergoing an overhaul in their training programme.
According to the duo they will be focusing on honing the talents of the players from a younger age, they will implement a more rigid training experience and try to give the players a lot more exposure.
Johnson said “we (Guyana) are right up there with the rest of the Caribbean and all we need is more exposure.” It was revealed that they will also start, “an adopt a player” programme where the senior players will be assigned to mentor individual junior players.
Next on the team’s calendar are the Pre-cadet, Cadet and Junior Latin American Championships in Venezuela in October and the U.S. Open in November.
