PAN AMERICAN Hockey Federation certified, Trinidad and Tobago National Hockey Coach Anthony Marcano along with Constantine ‘Gus’ Soteriades of the United States of America are both conducting a Coaches and Umpire Work Shop in Guyana, thanks to the Guyana Hockey Board (GHB).With the GHB hosting their annual Diamond Mineral Water Indoor Hockey Festival which gets on the way from today at the National Gymnasium, president Phillip Fernandes had stressed that the workshop will “Enhance the skills of our local people, umpires and coaches and also add a new dimension to the tournament that wasn’t there in the past”.

Held daily in the pavilion of the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC), the seminar will see Guyana’s top coaches and those aspiring to one day stand at the sidelines, studying new and innovative ways to develop the sport in Guyana.

Presently, Marcano and Fernandes are the only two certified Pan American Coaches in the Caribbean and according to the Trinidadian, “It’s important that we hold event like these, especially in countries like Guyana who are considered power-houses, especially in women’s hockey in the Caribbean”.