Lowe, Edghill competing at Olympic Trials in Chile

Apr 03, 2016 Sports

-Cummings off to training stint in Brazil

National Women’s Table Tennis Champion and junior Olympian, Chelsea Edghill and her

Trenace Lowe

team-mate, Trenace Lowe, who is a former Caribbean and national champion, is participating in Chile this weekend in an Olympic qualifier ahead of the upcoming Rio Games.
The duo is seeking qualification for the Games of the XXXII Rio Olympiad in the Continental qualification table tennis championships for the Latin American Region. The competition will be played in Santiago, Chile.
Players from 16 of the region’s best table tennis nations will be represented in an event that will pit the power houses of regional table tennis together; for the English-speaking Caribbean region, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica will be represented.
The tournament would allow five men and six women to qualify for the Olympic Games from this event. Each Association is entitled to enter up to a maximum of three men and three women players.
Meanwhile, National Table Tennis player, Natalie Cummings departed Guyana for Brazil where she will undergo a six month training stint at the Jaceiri Table Tennis Club (JTTC), Sao Paulo.
According to a press release from the GTTA, Cummings is in Brazil courtesy of a six month intern scholarship opportunity provided by Waldemir Jose Silva Jr., who is the President of the JTTC in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The stint will allow Cummings the opportunity to train and play tournaments as a representative

Chelsea Edghill

of the JTTC, Sao Paulo in provincial and regional tournaments. This is the second opportunity at the club for Cummings, the first being two years ago.
She used the first stint to help her prepare for several international engagements: Pan American Festival, Commonwealth Games, Caribbean Senior Championships and the Central American and Caribbean Games.
Cummings is the holder of a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University of Guyana and has expressed an interest in pursuing endeavors aimed at realising her table tennis potential while she contemplates advance studies and work.
Cummings’ stint, coupled with those of Trenace Lowe and Chelsea Edghill in China should help the national women’s team better their silver medal performance at the 2016 Senior Caribbean Championships scheduled for September in the Dominican Republic
She is currently the number two ranked woman player in Guyana and runner-up to Edghill at the 2016 National table Tennis Championships.