Nigel Si­mon

T&T se­nior team hock­ey play­ers, Eng­land-based Kwand­wane Browne, Nicole Am­ing and Stacey Siu Butt were named on the Pan Amer­i­can Hock­ey Fed­er­a­tion Elite Teams for 2009. The PAHF Elite Teams are named every two years, with the first ones an­nounced af­ter the 2007 Pan Amer­i­can Games, where Browne was one of three na­tion­al men's team play­ers se­lect­ed on the team. Browne, who was vot­ed as the 2007 Pan Amer­i­can Games "Play­er of the Tour­na­ment", was joined on that Elite Team by na­tion­al team­mates Dwain Quan Chan and Wayne Leg­erton, af­ter the trio helped T&T to a fourth place fin­ish.

How­ev­er, this time around, na­tion­al cap­tain Browne, who was the lead­ing goalscor­er at the eight-team tour­na­ment in Chile with 11 goals which helped T&T to a fifth place fin­ish, was the lone "Ca­lyp­so Stick­man" in the team. The men's Pan Amer­i­can Elite Team 2009 is led by Pan Amer­i­can Cup "Play­er of Tour­na­ment" Rob Short of Cana­da. The Pan Amer­i­can Cup win­ner, Cana­da is rep­re­sent­ed by four oth­er play­ers in cap­tain Ken Pereira, de­fend­ers Scott Tup­per and Paul Wet­laufer and "Goal­keep­er of the Tour­na­ment", David Carter.

Pan Amer­i­can Cup run­ners-up, USA has four picks on the men's team which is rep­re­sent­ed by six coun­tries–Ar­genti­na (three), Cana­da (five), Chile (three), Mex­i­co (two), T&T (1) and USA (four). Am­ing of De­fence Force and Siu Butt of Mag­no­lias were se­lect­ed to the Women's Pan Amer­i­can Elite Team 2009 which is led once again by three-time World Hock­ey Play­er of the Year Lu­ciana Ay­mar of Ar­genti­na. Ay­mar is joined by five more play­ers from Ar­genti­na, win­ner of the Pan Amer­i­can Cup played in Bermu­da, in "Play­er of the Tour­na­ment" Car­la Re­bec­chi, top scor­er Noel Bar­rionue­vo, Car­la Dupuy, Rosario Luchet­ti and goal­keep­er Maria Be­len Suc­ci.

In Bermu­da, T&T was edged by Chile 2-1 in the third placed match.

Tour­na­ment run­ners-up USA is rep­re­sent­ed by five play­ers, Cana­da (one), Chile (three), Mex­i­co (one), T&T (two) and USA (five). Ja­maica and Bermu­da women's team al­so par­tic­i­pat­ed in Bermu­da and placed sev­enth and eight re­spec­tive­ly. The teams were se­lect­ed by hock­ey spe­cial­ists in­volved or present at the 2009 Pan Amer­i­can Cups in Chile and Bermu­da while ad­di­tion­al in­put was sought from per­sons present at the FIH events in which PAHF teams par­tic­i­pat­ed (such as the Women's Cham­pi­ons Tro­phy in Syd­ney and the Ju­nior World Cups).