Chelsea Edghill is Malteenoes’ first Olympics first Guyana table tennis player to go to the Olympics – Kaieteur News

Kaieteur News – Since it was founded in 1902 by Bajan Tailor Ferdinand Archer, Thomas Road Malteenoes Sports Club, Thomas Lands, eight MSC crickets have played West Indian international cricket, including test players Charles Jones, John Trim, Glendon Gibbs , Clayton Lambert, Colin Stuart and female player Indomattie Gordial.

Chelsea Edghill in action (2)

The club, which is currently working on their two-story pavilion, an all-weather practice facility and has updated its fence, among others, has also produced a test cricket radio commentator and three young captains from the West Indies; Andre Percival, Steven Jacobs and Kwame Cross.
The club now has the first Olympic player of national table tennis player Chelsea Edghill, who is a member of Malteenoes and is currently practicing in the building’s second story, which is dedicated to table tennis.
23-year-old Edghill, Guyana’s highest-ranked female player, made it to the semi-finals of the Argentine Olympic qualifiers and got a wild card to participate in the Tokyo Olympics on August 23-8.
Edghill becomes the first table tennis player to represent Guyana at the Olympics.
Guyana has won one Olympic medal when boxer Mike Parris won a bronze medal 41 years ago at the Moscow Olympics.
MSC President Deborah McNichols, the first female leader of all clubs to play first division cricket in Guyana and the Caribbean, said the club is proud to be a hard-working, dedicated and talented girl.
When you embark on your journey to the Olympics as the first table tennis player to represent this country at this event, remember that you are an ambassador for the family, the community, Malteenoes and Guyana. It is a great honor to be in the Olympics, Mc Nichols stressed.
The four-time-younger athlete of the year and the 2018 national athlete announced that she should go to a training camp in Portugal next week.

Edghill is an ambassador for the Smalta brand.

The camp is the national training center of Portugal. I got there through GTTA and my current coach from Portugal. It’s been there for about six weeks and is being funded by the Guyana Olympic Organization, said the former Caribbean U-23 champion.
Edghill said the six-week camp will benefit him because he will be able to spare with the best players in Europe and added that he is happy with the preparation he should have before the Olympics.
Edghill has become the first table tennis player of all time to represent Guyana at the Olympics not with luck but with hard work both on and off the tennis table, combined with his continued impressive performances in several high-level tournaments. Table tennis.
Guyanas Womens from Edghill, Trenace Lowe, Natalie Cummings, Jody Ann Blake and Priscila Greaves qualifying for the South Korea World Table Tennis Championship, which was canceled due to the covid-19 pandemic, would also have helped her selection for Tokyo.
It means the world to me. Ever since I was young, it has been my dream to go to the Olympics and it is an opportunity I make the most of.
I don’t think I would have succeeded, but I have to thank God. Hard work pays off. I want to be able to compete and I want to leave my mark on my country, which requires a lot of hard work, added Edghill, who aims to be among the top 100 or even better players in the world.
Edghill signed a long-term agreement with Smalta as its latest brand ambassador on June 7, 2021; before the Japanese Olympics.
The agreement will not only apply to the Olympics, but will also run until 2022, as Smalta seeks to foster a significant partnership with the rising star.
A graduate of Lindenwood University said he was very grateful to Smalta for giving him such a tribute.
The talented young woman thanked her parents, Sydney Christophea, coaches including Edi Lewis and Lisa Lewis, friends and GTTA as well as all those who have supported her and are trying to pay them back by playing her best tennis in Tokyo.

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