WAL­TER AL­IBEY

Se­nior Mul­ti­me­dia Re­porter

wal­ter.al­ibey@guardian.co.tt

Daymi­an Stew­art has been en­trust­ed with an­oth­er op­por­tu­ni­ty to man­age the af­fairs of vol­ley­ball .

It will be his sec­ond con­sec­u­tive time in of­fice but his third term in to­tal at the helm of the T&T Vol­ley­ball Fed­er­a­tion (TTVF).

But he not­ed that af­ter spend­ing close to 30 years in the sport at the ad­min­is­tra­tive lev­el he wants it to be his last.

"This term must be one of learn­ing and pass­ing on to the youths. I al­ways tell them that they must be able to step up and take over," said the pres­i­dent.

At the TTVF elec­tion which took place at the Ch­agua­nas North Sec­ondary School on Sat­ur­day, Stew­art, a for­mer na­tion­al play­er and ad­min­is­tra­tor, was giv­en the nod un­op­posed.

The show of con­fi­dence in his lead­er­ship ca­pa­bil­i­ties en­abled him to lead a team of 15 mem­bers, sev­er­al of whom had to en­dure bat­tles at the poll while oth­ers were elect­ed un­op­posed.

De­on Hutchin­son was giv­en the go-ahead for the po­si­tion of first vice pres­i­dent with a con­vinc­ing 13-1 vic­to­ry over Bob­by An­drews; Amoy Jef­freys pre­vailed over Ch­eneil Mil­lette for the sec­ond vice pres­i­dent post, while Alyssa Hutchin­son and Re­ne­sha Bridge­wa­ter were both un­op­posed for their re­spec­tive po­si­tions of gen­er­al sec­re­tary and schools rep­re­sen­ta­tive.

Mean­while, To­ba­go Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Nolan Daniel was not chal­lenged for his po­si­tion, as well as the pair of Stephen Enile and Col­in Charles who will hold down the po­si­tions of beach vol­ley­ball rep­re­sen­ta­tives. Norl­isha Al­leyne earned her spot as the vol­ley­ball ex­ec­u­tive by beat­ing Shel­don San­di­ford 11-3 to be the rep­re­sen­ta­tive for the sport's of­fi­cials, and Alysha Bap­tiste got the win un­op­posed to be one of four club rep­re­sen­ta­tive po­si­tions. The oth­ers Jesseul Wil­son and Joshua Per­saud, both un­op­posed.

Hutchin­son (De­on) re­vealed yes­ter­day that Bap­tiste has al­ready been put to be the ex­ec­u­tive's pub­lic re­la­tions of­fi­cer (PRO) who will al­so han­dle the so­cial me­dia com­mu­ni­ca­tions, while Wil­son, who has a back­ground in fi­nance will op­er­ate in the Ac­counts De­part­ment and Per­saud will look af­ter the af­fairs of the ath­letes.

Chaitram Ram­di­al, the oth­er club rep­re­sen­ta­tive, will work along­side Stew­art.

Mean­while, both Ch­eneil Mil­lette and Mer­lin Ramey were cho­sen as two mi­nor­i­ty mem­bers.

Hutchin­son (De­on), a long-serv­ing mem­ber of the sport told Guardian Me­dia Sports his ex­ec­u­tive is plan­ning to de­liv­er on promis­es made to the mem­ber­ship, though they have very lit­tle to no time to do it.

This he said, en­tails hav­ing of­fi­cial screen­ing and even­tu­al train­ing ses­sions for the coun­try's Un­der-23 and U-17 teams for re­gion­al com­pe­ti­tion.

Giv­en the man­date as the High Per­for­mance and Events co­or­di­na­tor, Hutchin­son re­vealed the U-17s are set to con­test the Caribbean U-17 Vol­ley­ball Cham­pi­onships in Ja­maica from Ju­ly 24 - Au­gust 3, while both the U-23 men's and women's teams are to con­test the Caribbean U-23 Vol­ley­ball Cham­pi­onships from Ju­ly 3-7 in the Cay­man Is­lands (Men), and from Ju­ly 9-14 right here in T&T for the women.

He said al­so that the vol­ley­ball fed­er­a­tion is in a rush to have a women's team com­pete at the Pan Amer­i­can Cup in Mex­i­co from Au­gust 1-13, as well as se­nior men's and women's teams for the Caribbean Vol­ley­ball Cham­pi­onships Se­niors for men and women in the Ba­hamas from Au­gust 14-24.

In ad­di­tion, Stew­art and his team will en­sure the start of the Na­tion­al Vol­ley­ball League in Sep­tem­ber. This League will cater for age-group com­pe­ti­tion that in­cludes U-15, U-19, U-21 and U-23s.

Hutchin­son al­so said the Na­tion­al League will see the re­turn of the C Di­vi­sion for ac­tion among play­ers who rarely get the op­por­tu­ni­ty to play, as well as an A Di­vi­sion and a B Di­vi­sion.

TTVF ex­ec­u­tive

Daymi­an Stew­art (Pres­i­dent), De­on Hutchin­son (1st VP), Alyssa Hutchin­son (Sec­re­tary), Joshua Per­saud (Club Rep- in charge of ath­letes), Amoy Jef­frey (2nd VP), Re­ne­sha Bridge­wa­ter (School Rep), Jesseul Wil­son (Club Rep), Alysha Bap­tiste (Club Rep), Nolan Daniel (To­ba­go Rep), Norl­isha Al­leyne (Of­fi­cials Rep), Stephen Enile (Beach Vol­ley­ball Rep), Col­in Charles (Beach Vol­ley Rep), Mer­lin Ramey (Mi­nor­i­ty Mem­ber), Ch­eneil Mil­lette (Mi­nor­i­ty Mem­ber), Chaitram Ram­di­al (Club Rep).