T&T ju­nior women's hock­ey team re­turned home on the week­end from Cu­ba, hav­ing won all four match­es in prepa­ra­tion for the Pan Amer­i­can Ju­nior Hock­ey Cham­pi­onship sched­uled for Guadala­jara, Mex­i­co from Sep­tem­ber 10 to 23. T&T eked out a 1-0 win over Ciego Avi­las in the open­er, thanks to a 63rd minute goal from Stephanie White­man. This was fol­lowed by two penal­ty stroke wins over Ca­m­aguey, the first 3-1 af­ter a 0-0 dead­lock. The sec­ond was won 4-3 af­ter a 2-2 draw. Hero for T&T was goal­keep­er Ar­reisa Sandy who pulled off three saves in the first shoot-out while her team-mates White­man, Bri­an­na Govia and Aman­da George con­vert­ed.

Amie Olton and her sis­ter, Elise Olton were the lo­cal play­ers not to score. George and Tamia Roach scored the fi­nal two penal­ties for T&T dur­ing the first stage of the penal­ty-flicks and al­so scored the first two in sud­den-death to se­cure the vic­to­ry.

This af­ter T&T missed its first three at­tempts. In its fi­nal match, Brit­tney Hingh (17th) and Aman­da George (20th) got first-half items to lead T&T to a hard fought 2-1 win over Ca­m­aguey to com­plete a per­fect tour. In Mex­i­co, T&T will com­pete in Pool A with Ar­genti­na, Ja­maica, Paraguay and Venezuela while Pool B com­pris­es Bar­ba­dos, Brazil, Mex­i­co and USA, and Group C, Bermu­da, Cana­da, Chile and Uruguay.

Three coun­tries will qual­i­fy for the FIH Sev­enth Women's Ju­nior World Cup. If a PAHF Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion is the host, that coun­try will qual­i­fy au­to­mat­i­cal­ly, to­geth­er with the two high­est placed teams, not in­clud­ing the host. The Un­der-21 men's team did not en­joy any suc­cess as they failed to win any of their three match­es. They were beat­en by Ciego Avi­las 5-2 with Ish­mael Camp­bell and Tariq Mar­cano, the scor­ers. Next, they lost 0- 2 to Ca­m­aguey, while in their fi­nal match, they scored first but suf­fered a 4-2 de­feat to Ca­m­aguey with Mar­cano get­ting both goals. The men will com­pete in Mex­i­co in Pool A with Ar­genti­na, Brazil, Ja­maica and Pana­ma. Pool B com­pris­es Cana­da, Guatemala, Mex­i­co, Puer­to Ri­co and Uruguay while Pool C con­sist of Bar­ba­dos, Chile, USA and Venezuela. Two coun­tries will qual­i­fy for the FIH 10th Men's Ju­nior World Cup while the third place fin­ish­ers will be the first re­serve team.