Tucber Park Cricket Club (TPCC) of New Amsterdam is set to host a one-week summer camp.
This is the first official cricket camp to be held in New Amsterdam by the club and it is geared at transferring the basic skills of cricket to youngsters along with other life skills like leadership and the importance of academics.
One of the main aims of this camp is to provide children with an opportunity to be part of a sporting organisation so that the attendees can be meaningfully occupied with extra-curricular activities which can one day result in them representing Guyana and West Indies.
The camp, which will begin on Monday and conclude August 17, will be held at Berbice High School from 09:00hrs to 12:00 noon each day.
Young boys and girls around the area, aged 10 and over are invited.
Coordinating the camp is former national youth player and Berbice senior team batsman Anthony D’Andrade who also recently completed the Cricket West Indies (CWI) Level 2 coaching course last month at the National Stadium.
The head coach will be National under 19 coach Julian Moore, who is a CWI Level 3 qualified coach and is also a member of the coaching staff attached to the National senior team.
Moore will have as his assistant, West Indies female all-rounder Tremayne Smartt who is herself a recently qualified CWI Level 2 coach.
Interested parent/guardian is asked to contact coordinator D’Andrade (655-4638), head coach Moore (615-9239) or assistant coach Smartt (682-2389) to register.
Tucber Park has produced the likes of up and coming star Romario Shepherd, who is on the cusp of a West Indies senior team call up and
Jeremy Gordon, a former first-class seamer who is currently plying his trade in Canada’s T20 league, while national under – 19 players Garfield Benjamin and Leon Swamy would have also benefited from the club’s purposeful structure
