Coach: Not good enough

Article by Justin Marville

YOU’D THINK A championship-winning coach would be happy? Think again.

Springer Memorial’s basketball coach Francis Thompson isn’t pleased at the way the girls’ game is treated. He slammed the National Sports Council [NSC] for supposedly not organising the girls’ tournament with the same efficiency as the boys’ equivalent.

Thompson made the criticism mere moments after his team won a second successive title via Thursday’s 45-43 overtime thriller over hosts The St Michael School.

“I think girls’ basketball needs a bigger push from the Sports Council level as Barbados has sent more girls on scholarship [in basketball] than boys. Actually, I would dare say off the top of my head it may be double or nearly triple the numbers,” said Thompson.

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