POSNL honour late Jean Pierre

THIS year’s 64th edition of the Port of Spain Netball League will be staged in honour of the late Jean Pierre on Sunday.

The POSNL will host their annual season opening at the Jean Pierre Sports Complex, named after Jean the Netball Queen following her magnificent performances at the same site in 1979, when Trinidad and Tobago shared the World Netball Championship title with Australia and New Zealand. And since then, the Calypso Girls netballers are still the only team apart from the Aussies and Kiwis to lift the world title. To begin the new season, there will be a march past of teams starting 3.30 pm. And following this there will be an exhibition game between a team including members of the 1979 squad Peggy Castanada, Jennifer Frank, Althea Luces and Sherril Peters against a mixed team of players from Pierre’s era. Pierre succumbed to cancer in December last year, and the ex-Minister of Sports was afforded a state funeral by government.