T&T's Kristin Abreu, in her de­but at the Edge Field Hock­ey Club, helped its Un­der-16 team cop the Di­vi­sion's ti­tle at the Big Ap­ple Tour­na­ment in New York, last week. The Edge, un­der tech­ni­cal di­rec­tor, Kelvin Nan­coo al­so of T&T, con­tin­ued its run of suc­cess when the girls won two of the three ma­jor tro­phies. The U-19 team al­so grabbed gold, while the U-14s fin­ished sec­ond. "Our U-19 team was su­perb and won as cham­pi­ons do," said Nan­coo. "They won the fi­nal by a mar­gin of 4-0. The U-16 were al­so good, win­ning 4-2. How­ev­er, my heart broke for the U-14 who lost 3-2."

Nan­coo, who is con­tin­u­ing the work of his late broth­er Ken­win, was hap­py about the wins as it qual­i­fied the club for the Na­tion­al Club Cham­pi­onship (NCC) in Vir­ginia Beach in Ju­ly. "Now we are go­ing af­ter NCC gold and I ex­pect that we will im­prove on our third place fin­ish in this na­tion­al tour­na­ment last year. We are get­ting set for vic­to­ry in Vir­ginia as every­one drapped in gold and blue seek to en­hanced the rep­u­ta­tion and stand­ing of the club." Nan­coo con­tin­ued, "We lost Ken­win some 15 months ago and we are all try­ing to en­sure his lega­cy con­tin­ues. This re­sult should have him smil­ing from above as it was the best re­sult ever for our club at this tour­na­ment. Two from three is not bad but we re­al­ly pre­pared to win them all. We failed in that as­pect." Kristin, daugh­ter of for­mer na­tion­al hock­ey cap­tain Cristi­na Abreu, is a mem­ber of the T&T na­tion­al un­der-21 train­ing squad. The moth­er and daugh­ter duo are ex­pect­ed to be in ac­tion to­day when their club Ven­tures take on Har­vard Mar­itime Check­ers in the T&TBH's Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion at the Na­tion­al Hock­ey Cen­tre from 6.30 pm.