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Sunday, February 23, 2025

T&T Hockey Board’s Richardson, Mc Clean for Olympics

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Sports Desk
1387 days ago
20210509
Reyah Richardson, left, and and Ayanna Mc Clean

Reyah Richardson, left, and and Ayanna Mc Clean

For Tokyo 2020 Olympics which will take place from Ju­ly 23, 2021, the Trinidad & To­ba­go Hock­ey Board (TTHB) will have two rep­re­sen­ta­tives at this pres­ti­gious glob­al event in Ayan­na Mc Clean (Um­pire) and Reyah Richard­son (Tech­ni­cal Of­fi­cial).

At pre­vi­ous Olympics Games Events, T&T has been rep­re­sent­ed by Willard Har­ris (Tour­na­ment Of­fi­cial) and Roger St Rose (Um­pire).

When the FIH re­vealed the list of of­fi­cials ap­point­ed for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 (which were orig­i­nal­ly planned for last year, but post­poned due to the coro­n­avirus, Richard­son was named as one of the 14 Tech­ni­cal Of­fi­cials, and on­ly one of three from the Pan Amer­i­can re­gion along with Ar­gen­tine Adri­an Del­la Mat­tia, and USA's Rene Zelkin.

Mc Clean, who of­fi­ci­at­ed at the 2018 Com­mon­wealth Games fi­nal in Gold Coast Aus­tralia and has of­fi­ci­at­ed in the FIH World League this sea­son was one of 14 um­pires se­lect­ed for the women's hock­ey com­pe­ti­tion, and one of four from the Pan Amer­i­can re­gion, and on­ly the sec­ond from this coun­try be­hind Roger St Rose who of­fi­ci­at­ed at the 1996 At­lan­ta Olympics.

The three oth­er um­pires from the Pan Amer­i­can zone se­lect­ed were Ar­gen­tines', Car­oli­na De La Fuente and Irene Pre­sen­qui, and USA's Mag­gie Gid­dens

In ac­cor­dance with the agreed guide­lines and process­es of FIH, all ap­point­ed Of­fi­cials come from the FIH Pro League pan­els as these are the top-rat­ed Of­fi­cials.

While per­for­mance was the pri­ma­ry se­lec­tion cri­te­ria, the Of­fi­cials Com­mit­tee al­so looked, as a sec­ondary con­sid­er­a­tion, at the ge­o­graph­ic spread of the of­fi­cials to en­sure that all con­ti­nents are rep­re­sent­ed.

As a fur­ther de­mon­stra­tion of FIH’s “Equal­ly Amaz­ing” pol­i­cy, the Tech­ni­cal Of­fi­cials will work across both gen­ders’ match­es. Fur­ther­more, while on field Um­pires will be the same gen­der as the match, Video Um­pires may be the oth­er gen­der as has been suc­cess­ful­ly im­ple­ment­ed dur­ing the FIH Pro League this year.


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