The on­go­ing Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) has caused ex­cite­ment in T&T and around the re­gion and just last week, 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, 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 on-site. 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).

The Fac­ul­ty of Sport reach­es across all the Cam­pus­es of The UWI, through Acad­e­mies of Sport es­tab­lished on the Cave Hill, Mona, Open and St Au­gus­tine cam­pus­es. These Acad­e­mies (pre­vi­ous­ly known as De­part­ments) are re­spon­si­ble for aca­d­e­m­ic ac­tiv­i­ties, sports at all lev­els, as well as out­reach to com­mu­ni­ties through Sports.