With the hopes of of a revival of Volleyball within schools and getting the younger generation more involved as the Classic Ball Blasters in collaboration with the Guyana Volleyball Federation hosted the inaugural edition of the Mashramani School Competition at the National Gymnasium on February 20th ,2025
The tournament saw the participation of six schools vying for supremacy and showcasing their abilities to pike the ball – Presidents college, North Georgetown Secondary, St, Roses High school, St. Stanislaus College ,Annandale secondary ,Cyril Potter of Education.
Georgetown Volleyball Academy Coach Alicia Davis while speaking to media Operatives as she divulged that with the success of the nursery program from schools the academy recruited students to help with fundamentals in order to create a competitive schools tournament.
Davis said ‘So the academy is open to everybody under the age. And what we find out from the record, or the data, is that they had two from St.Stanislaus college , two from St Roses, five from Bishops secondary School, so from that pool of kids, I decided that we should be able to have a school tournament after having such a nursery. So I reached out to different teachers, asked them to supply the academy with students, help them with the fundamentals, so that the team could actually have another school tournament after how many years.”
She went on to expound that this tournament will give selectors the opportunity to select players to Represent the ‘Land of Many Waters’ at international competitions.
“Yeah, it showed me that they’re doing volleyball. Yes, volleyball is still alive in Guyana, most people probably think it’s alive in kicking . And with this now we will be able to at least identify athletes to represent us at IGG, Caribbean Games and these things, and have them coming up in different levels in the next two, three years, once this is continued every two months.”
With the government’s support Davis indicated that they would want to host the Tournament every two months which encourages kid involvement and seeing the standard of Volleyball increasing daily.
