AAG pushing for Pan Am funding

Jul 17, 2009 Sports

Boyce remains “very optimistic”

By Edison Jefford
It is a perpetuating bugbear in local sport but the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) will not let lack of funding prevent the national junior team from competing at the Junior Pan American Games in Trinidad and Tobago.
At least that is what AAG President Colin Boyce believes as the association is stepping up its efforts to raise funds ahead of the meet, which is slated for July 28 – August 2. He said that sponsors are to confirm their support today.
“I made contact with a few people who are supposed to get back at me tomorrow [today]. We are just looking at getting up three athletes, the manager and the coach,” Boyce told Kaieteur Sport in a brief interview yesterday.
The AAG is concentrating on Okeme Stewart, Roxanna Rigby and Nadine Rodrigues for sponsorship along with manager Pamela Phillips and Coach Lyndon Wilson since Triston Joseph and Kevin Bailey will be in Trinidad.
This newspaper understands that Joseph and Bailey are to compete at the Hampton Games in Trinidad from July 24-27 while Rodrigues indicated yesterday that she is trying to run at Hampton but that seems uncertain at the moment.
“I am taking some [sponsorship] letters out to try to go to Hampton. I want to use that as a warm up to see how I am running. I am not too sure if I will go though. We will have to see how that goes,” Rodrigues told Kaieteur Sport.
The national schools’ record holder said that she is confident that the AAG will get all the necessary funding for the Pan Am Games. Boyce shared a similar sentiment when he said that he is “very optimistic” about the sponsorship.
“On Monday I should be in a better position to tell you exactly where we are at with what we have sent out in terms of funding,” Boyce informed, adding that the association wants the entire seven-man team to compete at the Games.
Asked if the athletes were encamped, the AAG chief Executive state that their respective coaches are preparing them for the meet. “I know that [inclement] weather has affected them but they are trying to do what they can,” he said.
Lack of adequate funding had placed two national athletics teams on the backburner since Boyce became AAG President. The CAC Age Group and Senior teams were left at home following poor corporate responses earlier this year.

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