TT n-ballers to ‘taste’ new indoor facility

JAMAICA have commissioned a new indoor sports facility in time to host next month’s Cable and Wireless-sponsored 11th World Netball Championships which begins July 11.

And the new facility has been tested by the Jamaican “Sunshine Girls” netballers who were all happy with the wooden court. National players who inspected the facility were very pleased. Trinidad and Tobago netballers, currently preparing for the tournament will get a chance to use the facility during the tournament. “I like in here, this really looks good,” Jamaican defender Kasey Evering is reported as saying. “I feel as if I am in England,” she added. But noticeably lacking at the new facility according to reports is  a medical area, a media area, a hospitality area and changing rooms for match umpires. In addition, there were no air-conditioning units inside the changing rooms of the players. “We are pleased with what we have seen except for a few areas that the organising committee will have to address,” said Marva Bernard, IFNA finance director and treasurer of the Jamaica Netball Association. The new court was constructed by Canadian firm Trumbley and Hampton Inc, and the Urban Development Corporation (UDC) at Independence Park, just west of the National Arena. It is equipped with two newly imported wooden surface courts, with the amphitheatre-style facility having a capacity of approximately 3,600.