For­mer na­tion­al net­ball play­ers In­grid Black­man, Cyn­re­nia Charles, Jen­nifer Nurse and Sher­ril Pe­ters will be part of a grand af­fair to cel­e­brate the 40th an­niver­sary of their joint ti­tle in 1979 World Net­ball Cham­pi­onship. They will be host­ed by the Trin­ba­go Day USA In­cor­po­rat­ed, who will ho­n­our the net­ball icons at it fifth an­nu­al T&T Day on Sun­day in Brook­lyn, New York.

The Brook­lyn Dis­trict At­tor­ney’s Of­fice will be­stow "Ci­ta­tion of Ho­n­our" to mem­bers of the 1979, 1983 (third) and 1987 (sec­ond) T&T Net­ball World Cham­pi­onship teams.

Al­so ex­pect­ed to at­tend are are Brid­get Adams and Jeanne Bai­ley of the 1983 and 1987 teams as well as Muriel Mitchell (1987) and Irene Thomas-Jack­son, who was part of the 1983 tech­ni­cal staff as an um­pire.

They will be recog­nised for their suc­cess­es in the sport of net­ball at the high­est lev­el and be­ing role mod­els for young women and girls in sport. T&T Day will take place at the Old Boys High Ath­let­ic Field from 11 am - 7 pm and will fea­ture a live per­for­mance by so­ca artiste Lyrikal.

The event themed - “Fam­i­ly Fun and Sports Day” is the brain­child of founder and pres­i­dent Leeben Mc­Gre­gor and his hard­work­ing com­mit­tee vice pres­i­dent Dane Paul, Clint Mc­Gre­gor, Kelvin Raphael, Dil­lon Nichols and Michael Mau­rice.

The vi­sion came in­to fruition in Ju­ly 2014. The ini­tia­tive is an av­enue to spread knowl­edge about our sweet T&T his­to­ry and cul­ture. It is al­so an op­por­tu­ni­ty for small Caribbean busi­ness­es from var­i­ous in­dus­tries to be show­cased. This ac­tion-packed day will re­mind any “Trin­bag­on­ian” of a good old-fash­ioned Sports and Fam­i­ly Day. Any­thing “Trin­bag­on­ian” will be avail­able on that day in­clud­ing chow, souse, snow cone, toolum, nut­cake, etc. There is al­so a dis­play of car­ni­val cos­tumes, arts and crafts, topped off by our favourite nov­el­ty events such as lime and spoon, sack race, three-legged race and the in­fa­mous walk and wine.

The com­mu­ni­ty work of the Trin­ba­go Day USA Inc does not end here, it will al­so spon­sor a youth foot­ball team Uni­ty FC that com­petes in the Foot­ball Goal Soc­cer League (FGSL) league in Brook­lyn. The or­gan­i­sa­tion al­so hosts free acad­e­my train­ing ses­sions twice a month from June to Au­gust and fa­cil­i­tate a youth men­tor­ship pro­gramme.