T&T's US-based Women's foot­baller Tamar Wat­son is ward­ed at hos­pi­tal af­ter be­ing in­volved in a trag­ic ac­ci­dent that took the life of this coun­try's world light mid­dleweight cham­pi­on Jizelle Sa­landy. Re­ports are that the for­mer Re­al Di­men­sion mid­field play­er had bro­ken both her legs and had sus­tained se­ri­ous hip in­juries

Wat­son, who turned 22 on De­cem­ber 30, played for T&T at the Un­der 20 lev­el and at­tends Short­er Col­lege, Geor­gia. Just yes­ter­day she was in­volved in a meet­ing with Na­tion­al Women's Coach Mar­lon Charles and oth­er US-based play­ers to dis­cuss the Se­nior Team's pro­gram for 2009. "Yes­ter­day she was in the meet­ing with us and ap­peared in good spir­its and ea­ger about the plans for 2009. She played for us at the Un­der 20 lev­el but hasn't been in­volved much with the se­nior team to date be­cause of Col­lege com­mit­ments.

"Ob­vi­ous­ly we feel her chances of rep­re­sent­ing the coun­try are still very good and we are just keep­ing her in our prayers in hope that she re­cov­ers well and can be part of our team again and ful­fill her am­bi­tions of rep­re­sent­ing the coun­try at the se­nior lev­el," Charles told TTFF Me­dia yes­ter­day. "We al­so want to ex­tend our sym­pa­thy to Jizelle's fam­i­ly." In ear­ly No­vem­ber, Wat­son, a for­ward, scored the win­ning goal in over­time for Short­er Col­lege in a 1-0 vic­to­ry over NCAA foe North Al­aba­ma. That was their last reg­u­lar sea­son en­counter. Wat­son, who hails from La Brea is a for­mer Pleas­antville SC stu­dent and is pur­su­ing a ma­jor in busi­ness ad­min­is­tra­tion. She al­so rep­re­sents Re­al Di­men­sion FC. The T&T Foot­ball Fed­er­a­tion and the en­tire foot­ball fra­ter­ni­ty ex­tend con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly, friends and as­so­ciates of Sa­landy.