The Guyana Table Tennis Association has recruited the services of high-performance coach Alexandre Gomes for the period 22nd August to 4th September. In a release the Association said the training camp is geared for elite level players with great technical ability and sessions will be conducted twice daily during the identified period.
The central objective of the engagement is to further provide and expose national table tennis team members and coaches to high performance training and methodologies, improving the technical tactical and strategic development of players, improving local players and the national team’s performance in competitions, to assist the association with the training, mentoring and preparation.
Training engagement will also allow for discussion with and exploring ways in which the local association can build partnership with Gomes to assist players and coach’s development or his presence in Guyana to help with preparing the team for an extended period for key tournaments, in addition to assisting with preparing key players, Shemar Britton Natalie Cummings and Chelsea Edghill, who have qualified to participate in the PanAm Championships scheduled for October 13th to 30th in El Salvador.
The Association said players from Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Jamaica have expressed an interest participating in the training camp.
Coach Alexandre Gomes is a top-level proven coach who is well respected in the table tennis fraternity globally, and has worked with Quadri Aruna world top 10 Player from Nigeria, several national team members from the USA China Europe Asia lead the National Team of Peru as Head Coach for several years. Gomes is also one of the lead coaches at the 888 table Tennis Club in Burlingame and San Diego which is a United States High performance training centre.
Guyana’s table tennis maestro Shemar Britton has credited and paid homage to his work in helping him to qualify for the Panam games 2023. Coach Alexandre has always expressed an interest in working with players from Guyana and the region, Shemar was instrumental in coach coming to Guyana after concluding a training camp in Barbados
Coach Alexandre Gomes arrives in Guyana on August 21st
