Guyana will be represented at CBC Championship 2013

Though a date and host country has not yet been named by the CBC, Patterson is hoping for it to be in one of the eastern Caribbean states and not those that require British or US Visas since it would make Guyanas road to participation easier.



Visa or not we will be playing this year but its just that if the tournament is played in places like Barbados, Jamaica or Trinidad, it would be much easy and less stress for us to administratively put things together. It was hinted that Jamaica was going to bid, but it will be finalise at the congress said Patterson.



The CBC will be holding its Annual Congress on February 2 in the United States territorial Island of St Thomas and Speaking with Chronicle Sports exclusively yesterday; Patterson said that the GABF will be attending the meeting because its very important for us to know whats happening within basketball and to plan the year for the Federation.



Guyana competed at the last championships, held in the Bahamas in 2011 and finished seventh, playing with only local players.



However, according to Patterson, at this years tournament, the team will see overseas players being part of the contingent, since several of them are already in contact with the Federation.



This time around we are involving the guys from overseas, so now we have to sit and work out a selection process because we want the best possible team representing Guyana. So to all that had been contact with us over the past year, we told them to get their documents in place and we to make sure that they meet the eligibility criteria, but certainly we involving them this year Patterson noted.



Looking ahead, the GABF President said that they are presently planning their Inter-Association Championship which will serve as a selection process to short-list local players.



The CBC tournament is normally held in July, so we have the Inter-Association planned for February, and then we will host DC Jammers. Last year the Associations did play some basketball and this year we have a lot of work to do, but certainly we are looking forward to seeing Guyana play at the CBC Championship. Patterson noted.



Asked if Guyana will be sending a Female team, Patterson said Certainly, because the women are not as hard to put together. We have a good crop of local players who were on the team that won the tournament in Antigua last year and were just going to blend them with some of the overseas girls.
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