For the primary time in six years, the Caribbean Girls’s Basketball Championship will return to the regional stage—this time with Guyana because the proud host nation.
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The event is scheduled for November 9-17 on the Cliff Anderson Sports activities Corridor in Georgetown, the place the game’s brightest feminine skills will battle for Caribbean supremacy.
The announcement was delivered by the Guyana Basketball Federation (GBF) and has been hailed as a powerful endorsement by FIBA, which has entrusted Guyana with the accountability of bringing again a contest absent since 2018.
A nation prepared for the highlight
GBF President Michael Singh declared that Guyana is ready for the problem, noting the federation’s decided pursuit of internet hosting rights.
“Guyana is able to host the championship,” Singh affirmed, emphasizing that years of groundwork have gone into positioning the nation for this historic alternative.
Ten of the area’s main basketball powers are anticipated to compete, with the highest finishers securing passage to the Girls’s CentroBasket Event, itself a gateway to the celebrated FIBA Girls’s AmeriCup.
Constructing for achievement
Preparations will start instantly. The GBF is working hand in hand with the Authorities of Guyana and the Nationwide Sports activities Fee to make sure a seamless event. Central to those efforts is a deliberate improve of the Cliff Anderson Sports activities Corridor, making certain the venue meets worldwide competitors requirements. A Native Organising Committee (LOC) can even be assembled to handle logistics and event supply.
The occasion carries added resonance for Guyana, whose ladies’s workforce etched their identify into regional historical past in 1996 by capturing the nation’s first Caribbean title. That unforgettable triumph got here on the then CARICOM Basketball Championship in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, when Head Coach Linden “Sancho” Alphonso led his squad previous Jamaica within the last. Star guard Karen Abrams was among the many standouts in that victorious marketing campaign, which stays a degree of nationwide satisfaction.
Wanting forward
With November quick approaching, pleasure is already constructing in Georgetown. The championship not solely supplies Guyana the possibility to showcase its organizational capability but additionally presents its present era of gamers a possibility to attract inspiration from their trailblazing predecessors as they compete in opposition to the Caribbean’s best.
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