…Broomes to captain in place of Jamal Angus who is out injured

THE Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) on Tuesday announced their 14-man
squad set to suit up for the Rugby Americas North 7’s Championship set for
Arima ,Trinidad and Tobago this weekend.

The side will be led by winger Godfrey Broomes who will replace regular skipper Jamal Angus who is injured with Lionel Holder as vice-captain.
The other players are Rickford Cummings, Shawn David, Renaldo Niles and Yannick Williams.
The overseas based players areTyreese Prescod, Valon Adams, Matthew Talbot, and Godfrey Pollydore

The reserves are Scott Garraway, Odida Douglas, and Kelvin Grant and Owen Adonis. GRFU president Ryan Dey says he is assured because of the level of preparation and the quality of the squad that they will do well.
‘The guys were training very hard, they are very fit; this is one of the fittest team [sic] we have had since COVID-19 going out and the training has been good; the coaching team is also very experienced……..we are hoping that we can reach into the finals with this team that we have here. We have four guys coming in from overseas; we are very confident this team will make Guyana proud.’

The team will be led by former West Indies rugby captain /coach Claudius Butts, with Elwin Chase as assistant coach and Ryan Gonslaves as manager.
This year’s tournament will see the 18 teams being divided into Tier One and Tier Two brackets.

Champions from the Tier one men will qualify for the World Rugby HSBC Sevens Challenger 2025.

The top two teams, excluding Canada who has already been pre- qualified from the Tier One will qualify for the 2025 Junior Pan American Games’ Sevens competition.
While the Men’s Tier Two winner will be promoted into Tier One in 2025 under a promotion-relegation format. Guyana in Tier One will battle the likes of Barbados, Bermuda, Canada, the Cayman Islands, Jamaica, México and host Trinidad and Tobago.

Tier Two has Curaçao, The Dominican Republic, St. Vincent and The Grenadines and the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Last year, the USA Men and Canada Women booked their tickets to Paris as tournament champions.