As Guyana’s squash team polishes off its preparations to contest the 2019 Caribbean Area Squash Association Junior championship in Trinidad and Tobago, coach Carl Ince has conceded that the current batch is just talented as any Guyana would have produced.
“I would say that this group of players have achieved their technical and tactical skills earlier than the others,” he said.
“I would put it down to them observing and gelling with the players that went before them and that is progress,” Ince told Stabroek Sport recently at the Georgetown Club Squash Court facility.
However, he underscored the need for the current batch to emulate and match the “hunger for success as displayed in the teams gone by” which was the centerpiece of Guyana’s 12-year reign.
His comments are particularity encouraging since Guyana is hunting the 2019 team overall title, a crown they remarkably held for 12 years up until they were dethroned by arch-rivals Barbados at home in 2016.
The team will be led by the sensational Shomari Wiltshire and will include Daniel Islam, Michael Alphonso, Samuel Ince-Carvalhal and Nicholas Verwey in the male category while Abosaide Cadogan, Makeda Harding, Kirsten Gomes and Madison Fernandes will form a formidable female frontline.
The championships will commence this weekend.
Ince, who has been one of the main pillars at the forefront of Guyana’s strong showing at the championships over the years, is also satisfied with preparations heading into the championships.
“The preparations have been satisfactory…. Of course, when it gets close, like now, we always wish we had more time but we have been able to cover all the aspects that should have been covered and we are confident that they can give a very good account of themselves. They are well prepared,” he declared.
