RHTY&SC, TCL Annual Cricket Academy and Republic Bank Camp bowls off tomorrow

Jul 09, 2017 Sports, http://www.kaieteurnewsonline....-bowls-off-tomorrow/

The Area ‘H’ Ground in Rose Hall Town would be abuzz with activities when the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, MS, 27th Annual Cricket Academy and the 11th Annual Educational Camp bowls off tomorrow from 9:00am. The Cricket Academy is being sponsored by Trinidad Cement Ltd, while the Educational Camp is sponsored by Republic Bank.
Club Secretary/CEO Hilbert Foster stated that both programmes are major projects in the Club’s calendar of 500 activities for 2017. The cricket academy would be held at the Area ‘H’ Ground from tomorrow to Friday 21st July. It would be supervised by Coach Delbert Hicks, starting at 09:00 hours each day and caters for 100 youths between the ages of 8 to 18 years. Members of the Academy would be involved in batting, bowling and fielding. While special emphasis would be placed on physical fitness.
Lectures on a wide range of topics, including, History of Cricket, Structure of Cricket, Laws of Cricket, Suicide, Drug Abuse, Personal Hygiene, Depression and Importance of Education will also be a part of the activities. The RHTY&SC would provide all the gears needed, while a daily snack would be provided for each academy member. Foster disclosed that the main objectives of the 2017 Cricket Academy would be to assist youths to develop as cricketers, to educate them on their role model status and to prepare them for a career as professional cricketers.
Over the last 27 years, the academy has produced a total of 2019 young cricketers including Assad Fudadin, Esuan Crandon, Royston Crandon, Clinton Pestano, Eon Hooper, Shemaine Campbelle, Erva Giddings, Plaffiana Millington, Dominique Rikhi, Loyydel Lewis, Shawn Pereira, Neil Williams, Shawn Grant, Renwick Batson, Khemaraj Mahadeo and Ashkay Homraj.
The Republic Bank Summer Camp would cater for 60 Grade Six students who would be entering Secondary School in September. The Camp would be conducted by senior educator Rohan Etwaru. Students would be taught Maths, English, History, Social Studies, Spanish and would also be learning the game of cricket.
Lectures would be held on a wide range of topics including Peer Pressure, Discipline in Classroom, Importance of Education and Personal Hygiene. The classes would last until the second week in August.