Dr DeVerteuil heads squash team to Barbados

TOP squash player Dr Paul Jerome De Verteuil will, once again, lead the Trinidad and Tobago Senior National team at the Caribbean Squash Championships in Barbados.

De Verteuil was ranked fifth in the Caribbean at the end of the 2001 edition and is joined in the bi-annual tournament by top juniors Joanna Scoon and Tessa Martin. Both are fresh from the Caribbean Junior Championships with Martin at 14 years being the youngest ever Women’s Senior team member. The TT team leaves today for Barbados expecting an improvement in the men’s team third placed finish in the last championships. Competition begins tomorrow and continues to August 30 when the finals will be staged.

The full compliment is:
Men: Paul De Verteuil, Colin Ramasra, Ryan Abraham, Marc Pontiflex, Peter Pirtheesingh and John Marc De Montrichard.

Women: Rhea Khan, Ingrid Lloyd, Gen Shim, Nicole Currie, Joanna Scoon and Tessa Martin.

John Holley and Michelle Cornilliac will compete in the Veteran’s Division (Over-40) and Lewis Smith is the only competing Master (Over-50) on the team.

Coaches are Henry Laughlin and Roger Salandy; while Nicholas Mc Grath is the team’s manager.