The Fac­ul­ty of Sport has an­nounced that they are de­light­ed that the CPL has used the St. Au­gus­tine Acad­e­my of Sport fa­cil­i­ties as the sole train­ing ground for all teams in­volved in CPL XI. De­tails fol­low in this press re­lease...

As ex­cite­ment in Trinidad and To­ba­go and around the re­gion builds with the on­go­ing Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL), the St. Au­gus­tine Acad­e­my of Sport of The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (The UWI) Fac­ul­ty of Sport has al­so been abuzz with train­ing ac­tiv­i­ties.  
 
“The Fac­ul­ty of Sport is de­light­ed that the CPL has used the St. Au­gus­tine Acad­e­my of Sport fa­cil­i­ties as the sole train­ing ground for all teams in­volved in CPL XI. This cou­pled with our part­ner­ship in de­liv­er­ing The UWI CPL Sport Mar­ket­ing Course this year points to the strong bond,” said Dr. Ak­shai Mans­ingh, Dean of the Fac­ul­ty of Sport and Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer of the CPL. “Very few in­sti­tu­tions can pro­vide such mul­ti­di­men­sion­al of­fer­ings and we look for­ward to fur­ther ar­eas where we can un­earth our mu­tu­al po­ten­tial,” he added. 
 
On Tues­day 13th Sep­tem­ber, mem­bers of the Ja­maica Tallawahs team and coach­ing staff head­ed by West In­dies leg­ends Shiv­nar­ine Chan­der­paul, Hon­orary Grad­u­ate of The UWI (2018) and Sir Curt­ly Am­brose were on­site. Al­so present were grad­u­ate of The UWI St. Au­gus­tine Cam­pus, Amir Jan­goo who was nom­i­nat­ed for the Vice-Chan­cel­lor’s Sports­man of the Year Award 2020 and UWI Men’s Crick­et Coach Ke­sha­va Ram­phal (An­a­lyst).