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Jul 08, 2010 Sports
– Says Coach, Ann Gordon
By Edison Jefford
Following their emphatic success at the just-concluded National Schools’ Basketball Festival at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, long-standing Kwakwani Secondary School Coach, Ann Gordon believes the triumph came as a result of an established nursery.
Gordon was speaking to Kaieteur Sport after her teams won three of the four titles up for grabs in the 2010 edition of the tournament. She said their programme in Kwakwani is heavily based on a nucleus of young players they always have coming through.
Before it was former national junior guard, Shelroy Thomas, who led a host of talented players to titles when the tournament was not divided into age categories, but now individuals such as Dave Plass, Dominique Douglas and Eon Meredith are doing the same.
“It’s like a nursery we have in Kwakwani. We always have players coming up because we start a programme from as early as nine years old. We have 9-13 Leagues that we start with, moving up, and besides basketball is our number one sport,” Gordon said.
The outstanding female Coach that has consistently made a claim for national recognition with a female team indicated that they have decided to go for the nursery because they notice the gap at the higher levels that are left when players graduate.
“We are trying to emphasise basketball from the younger age groups since a lot of players move to Georgetown to seek work and so on when they would have gotten to the senior level. So it’s a way of ensuring our basketball doesn’t die off,” she explained.
Kwakwani won the Under-16, Under-18 and Champion-of-Champion titles at the schools’ event that left only the Open title up for grabs. Linden Foundation won that award, which gave Region 10 a clean sweep of all the titles in junior basketball tournament.
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