{"id":26145,"date":"2025-02-08T20:27:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T20:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=26145"},"modified":"2025-02-08T20:27:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T20:27:23","slug":"2024-a-successful-year-for-guyanas-hockey-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/2024-a-successful-year-for-guyanas-hockey-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"2024: A Successful Year for Guyana&#8217;s Hockey Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Travis Seymour | January 3, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) has celebrated a remarkable year for the national hockey teams, with success across regional and international competitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> According to long-time GHB President, Phillip Fernandes, the determination, skill, and hard work of the players have enabled them to overcome challenges and excel, despite not having access to artificial playing surfaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fernandes highlighted the team&#8217;s achievements, noting that the year began with strong performances and continued momentum, with the national teams achieving high rankings in regional competitions and making significant strides on the global stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The senior men&#8217;s team showcased their skill and commitment, earning accolades and recognition in major international events. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fernandes also praised the Masters Hockey team, where players, despite their experience, delivered outstanding results against top hockey nations such as France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The national women&#8217;s team capped off the year with a standout performance, further solidifying Guyana\u2019s reputation in international hockey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fernandes emphasized that the team&#8217;s achievements were a result of their hard work and dedication, overachieving in competitions despite challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the GHB President lamented the lack of a dedicated artificial surface for hockey in Guyana, which continues to put the nation&#8217;s teams at a disadvantage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While hockey is typically played on artificial surfaces worldwide, Guyana&#8217;s teams must train on grass fields, which makes the transition to faster surfaces abroad more difficult. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The GHB hopes to address this issue to help the teams compete on equal footing with other nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Travis Seymour | January 3, 2025 The Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) has celebrated a remarkable year for the national hockey teams, with success across regional and international competitions. According&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26146,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26145\/revisions\/26146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}