Intercol Intermediate and Junior netball semis on today
THE PENULTIMATE set of matches in Intercol Intermediate and Junior netball competitions will be played today, with semi-final action taking place at the University of West Indies starting at 10 a.m.
After winning the Intermediate A title for the past seven years, defending champions Mico ‘B’ will be hoping to advance to another final when they take on Exed Community College at 10:30 a.m. Mico were dominant all season, winning all of their matches by wide margins to come out on top of Zone One, while Exed were winners of Zone Four.
In the other semi, slated for 11:30 a.m. Zone Three winners GC Foster C will oppose Sam Sharpe Teachers’ College.
A new champion will be crowned this year in the Intermediate B tournament as defending champions GC Foster College were promoted to Intermediate A. Last year’s junior champions, Moneague Community College, will be hoping for another title when they oppose Mico ‘C’ in this final, which takes place at 1:30 p.m. This will be preceded by a 12:30 p.m. start in the Church’s Teachers’ College vs Caribbean Maritime University contest.
In the lone Junior semi-final today, Montego Bay Community College will go up against Trench Town Polytechnic Centre at 2:30 p.m. The other semifinal match, between Northern Caribbean University and the College of Agriculture, Science and Education, will be played next Tuesday, November 27, at Queen’s High School starting at 3 p.m. EARLIER THIS week, the minister of culture, gender, entertainment and sport, Olivia Grange, announced new appointments to three sport-related government boards – the Sports Development Foundation (SDF), Independence Park Limited (IPL), and the Institute of Sports (INSPORTS).
As with any public board appointments, there are controversies and comments from many in the Jamaican sporting sector. Of course, the impending merger of the three said entities is also causing some ripples as there’s uncertainty as to what this restructuring will look like.
I want to move the conversation a bit further, though, and focus less on the reasons for the appointments or the persons who have been selected. For me, board appointments are serious enough to warrant serious discussion on the role and function of members and the power they hold in developing sports.
There are important questions that must be answered in selecting members for any sports board: What is the overall goal of the board? How can each person contribute to that goal and to the overall objective of developing sports in Jamaica? How do you ensure that there’s the right mix as it relates to age, gender parity, and skill set to move sports forward?
MAIN TENET
Once those answers are had, there is then a focus on the main tenets of good governance. If we are to follow the Australian Sports Commission’s Sports Governance Principles model, we could adopt some key focus points. Firstly, there should always be an understanding of what the board composition should be, as well as roles and responsibilities. You get the