Sports

Table tennis is expected to take a prominent place in local sports with the handing over of twenty tennis boards along with rackets and balls to the Government of Anguilla. The sporting equipment was made available by the National Bank of Anguilla at a cost of over sixteen thousand Eastern Caribbean dollars. It was shipped to the island free of cost by Tropical Shipping, represented by Sheila Haskins.

As the 2006 male and female wind ball cricket tournament commenced on Sunday 1st October, the young men and women of the Blowing Point community proudly displayed their green and gold uniforms sponsored by Temenos St.Regis Resort & Golf Course. Several members of both cricket teams and senior managers of the sales department gathered at the entrance to the world class Golf Course on Saturday morning to showcase their new sport gear.

The upcoming Anguilla Windball Cricket Tournament, due to commence on Sunday, October 8, will be an exciting pastime for fans around the island.

There is a considerable amount of excitement among participating teams, and the general public, with the start of the Windball Cricket Tournament on Sunday, October 1.

The US Open Tennis Championships is one of the four grand slam tennis events and one of the most exciting spectacles in the sports arena. Held at the newly named Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York, it is the last grand slam event of the year and therefore puts much pressure on the players as this is the last chance to boost their ranking.

The need for a village playing field for the children of the Stoney Ground/Cauls Pond community has again been highlighted by the sponsorship of the third annual fun day by Sunset Homes, an Architectural Design and Construction firm in Anguilla.

Anguillian, Eric Hughes, Chief Executive Officer of Norric Enterprises, is continuing his drive for members of his newly-formed Anguilla Pocket Billiards Association (APBA).

The Anguilla Tennis Academy is proud to announce that one of its long time students and coaches, Keithroy Proctor, recently left for the United States on a tennis scholarship. He arrived in Jackson, Tennessee to attend Lambuth University; one of the nation’s finest small private universities.

Fifteen young Anguillian cricketers left here on Wednesday to play in a series of some six or seven matches in St. Kitts.

The series of boat races started on Sunday, August 6, at Sandy Ground, when the winner was Light & Peace. The other winners were Eagle, second; Bluebird, third; UFO, fourth; and NWO, fifth.

Scotiabank Anguilla Limited, which has a ten-year involvement in the sponsorship of the Champion of Champion Boat Race (climaxing the August holiday week of races), has donated EC$18,616.00 to the Anguilla Boat Racing Committee.

Anguilla’s first ever Junior Golf Camp was successfully completed last week. Over a two-week period 15 children in attendance were taught a range of the fundamentals such as putting, chipping and driving the ball with a full swing.

The Anguilla Tennis Academy, a non-profit, grassroots tennis program, is pleased to announce that Wilson Sporting Goods has agreed to sponsor the 2006 summer tennis camp. This camp is the biggest on the island to date, with over 1,500 children benefiting from the program.

Scotiabank Anguilla Limited has expressed its thanks and appreciation to all the schools on the island which participated in the 4th Annual Kiddy Cricket Competition and says it is looking forward to doing better with the assistance of various associations.

Sandy Ground Beach was the scene of much social activity on Sunday, July 16, attracting a large crowd from throughout the island. The occasion was the 2nd Annual National Bank of Anguilla Peter Perkins Memorial Boat Race and Fun Day Village Games.

The building contract for the football stadium in Anguilla has been sent to FIFA in Switzerland for approval and work on the sports facility at the Webster Park annex is scheduled to commence over the coming weeks.

On Saturday July 15th, Rumza rocked as the Anguilla Amateur Bodybuilding & Fitness Association (AABBA) hosted the 11th Annual Eastern Caribbean Bodybuilding & Fitness Championships. This was the first time Anguilla was granted the honor of hosting this prestigious event in which they successfully met the challenge!

Just one year after its formation, Kicks United Football Club is well on its way to becoming a force to be reckoned with in local sport competitions.

On July 10, the 11th Annual Anguilla Tennis Academy Summer Camp started with over 120 participants eager to play. The program began at 8 am at the James Ronald Webster Park where the creation of the ATA’s summer camp began. In 1996, Mitchelle Lake and Sean Romney began doing a camp for the children of Anguilla while they were enrolled at Gardner-Webb University in the North Carolina.

After fifteen days, ten cities, three football matches and a training session with former FIFA World Player of the Year, Lothar Matthäus; the Anguilla National Football Team returned home having left an indelible mark on the minds and lives of the thousands of Germans they came into contact with during their tour of the 2006 FIFA World Cup™ host country.