Caribbean U11 Pre Cadet champion Kaysan Ninvalle arrived in Peru yesterday for the World Hopes Training Camp and commenced training under national coach Linden Johnson with the Peru national team.
According to Coach Linden Johnson that the two-member team arrived safely and were well taken care of by Rafael Amendariz, Technical Director of the Peru Table Tennis Association.
Johnson added that Ninvalle was able to get in some training with the national cadet team of Peru, and according to him, “the session went well.”
Ninvalle’s participation at the camp was made possible through donations from the National Sports Commission (NSC) and the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA), a release from the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) stated yesterday.
According to the release, Director of Sport Christopher Jones, stated that his government was committed to developing sports and giving support to young athletic talents across the different sporting disciplines wherever possible with the view of helping them realise their potential and to develop their sporting and academic talents.
Jones, stated the release, also extended best wishes to Ninvalle and Johnson at the presentation which was done in the NSC boardroom, Homestretch Avenue.
The GOA too made a donation at its headquarters 76 High Street with GOA president K. Juman Yassin and treasurer, Garfield Wiltshire, handing over a cheque to assist the duo to make the trip to Lima, Peru.
According to the release, Yassin said that he was happy to support the young racquet wielder since he felt this was the direction he would love to see sports organization synchronizing their programmes with their international federations and putting forward programmes for developing young athletes.
Yassin, the release stated, also touched on the implementation of the National Athlete Development Table Tennis for Schools Project, which is a collaborative programme which is soon to be implemented.
The programme is being piloted by the GOA, the NSC, the GTTA and the Guyana Teachers Union.
GTTA president Godfrey Munroe thanked the Jones and Yassin for responding positively to the GTTA’s request for support.
