T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion (TTCF) pres­i­dent Rowe­na Williams, the daugh­ter of a fa­mous cy­cling fam­i­ly, has vowed to con­tin­ue erad­i­cat­ing a debt that has left the sport in tur­moil.

Williams made this rev­e­la­tion soon af­ter she was re­turned un­op­posed as pres­i­dent at the An­nu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing (AGM) and sub­se­quent Elec­tions last week­end at the Na­tion­al Cy­cling Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va.

Her re-elec­tion to the top spot was her eas­i­est to date, as this time no one had put them­selves up for elec­tion in any of the po­si­tions. Williams said it could be a sign of many things.

"It could mean that peo­ple are con­fi­dent in the peo­ple who are go­ing to lead the or­gan­i­sa­tion, it could al­so mean that a lot of peo­ple are un­able to com­mit to the work re­quired. Peo­ple are not go­ing to put up their names if they are un­able to com­mit," Williams told Guardian Me­dia Sports re­cent­ly.

"I com­mend the mem­ber­ship for say­ing it's ei­ther I want to do this or I don't want to do it. We are hap­py to work for the bet­ter­ment of the or­gan­i­sa­tion and of course, it is our hope that we con­tin­ue to work on bring­ing fi­nan­cial sta­bil­i­ty to the or­gan­i­sa­tion, so that's my main goal and the en­tire team is com­mit­ted to that.

"We con­tin­ue to work for cy­cling and the love of it. Cy­cling has been a pas­sion of mine from birth and I will con­tin­ue to serve as long as I am able to, and as long as I am giv­en the op­por­tu­ni­ty to, so thanks to the mem­ber­ship for show­ing their trust in me for the next four years," Williams said.

In 2021 the fed­er­a­tion was sad­dled with a $1 mil­lion debt, which came at the 2017 Pan Amer­i­can Track Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships at the NCC, how­ev­er, de­spite on­go­ing work to re­duce the debt, Williams and her team still have work to do.

"I am com­mit­ted to com­plet­ing the work that was start­ed over the past four years which was to bring down the debt that we had. We have been able to make some head­way with that so we want to con­tin­ue that and liq­ui­date it en­tire­ly," Williams said.

TTCF ex­ec­u­tive

Pres­i­dent: Rowe­na Williams

Vice pres­i­dent (Fi­nance): Aque­lius Young

Vice pres­i­dent (Rac­ing): Gre­go­ry D'An­drade

Vice pres­i­dent (Dis­ci­pline): Steve Nakhid

Gen­er­al sec­re­tary: Pa­tri­cia Le Blanc

As­sis­tant gen­er­al sec­re­tary: Cher­ry Ann Titte

Trea­sur­er: Claire Orr

Rac­ing sec­re­tary: Delia Top­pin-Lopez

As­sis­tant Rac­ing Sec­re­tary: Sh­eryl Lea­cock

Pub­lic Re­la­tions Of­fi­cer: De­nese Fran­cis