THE JAMAICA Hockey Federation (JHF) launched their 2002 Tony Burrowes Junior Premier League competition at the Sports Development Foundation at the weekend.
The Junior Premier League is a development programme for players and coaches islandwide. The players will go through periods of training which will eventually culminate in competition. Training days will be Mondays to Thursdays (4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.) and also on Saturdays (9:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.).
Meanwhile, the preparation and competition format will be based on a development model that was prepared with the assistance of Master FIH coach Horst Wein, who has conducted two coaching seminars here in the past two years.
This competition will help to prepare players for the national junior team which will participating in the Junior PanAm Games in 2004 and to develop them in a structured manner.
In handing over the sponsorship money, Annette Burrowes, the widow of the late former national player Tony Burrowes, said: "I am very happy to be associated with hockey, especially knowing the love Tony had for the sport in his time.
"He (Tony) will be happy to know that we are doing this for hockey," she said while handing over the cheque for $100,000 to the JHF president Jerome Miles.
