THE Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) is eyeing the prospect of establishing a local indoor league in order to ensure the growth of that section of the sport.According to president of the GHB, Philip Fernandes, the body through its tournament committee has been mulling the concept in an attempt to gain more positive results among the various classes.
“We (the tournament committee) have been looking now at going to indoors. Usually when the rains come we start our indoor hockey season and we are trying for the first time to see if we could organise a league, an indoor league,” said the GHB boss.
He continued, “Usually what we do is we have tournament over a span of three or four days in a row; with the league concept we will have one or maybe two days a week for several weeks.”
He noted that the benefits of having the league far outweigh the costs, adding, “Teams then will have the opportunity to adjust tactically to train and prepare better for the next match.”
“We should probably see some exciting competition in both the women and men sides of the game,” continued Fernandes.
The hockey board head says with the current thrust and willingness of the new executives, he anticipates an even more successful year for the sport.
“I expect a good year for hockey, a good year from an administrative standpoint and I think we should be able to get some things achieved even if we don’t manage all of those things in one year.”

(Stephan Sookram)