​T&T’s men’s hock­ey 5s team is now ranked among the top ten in the In­ter­na­tion­al Hock­ey Fed­er­a­tion (FIH) lat­est world rank­ings.

​The "Ca­lyp­so Stick­men" are cur­rent­ly ranked joint-sev­enth in the world along­side Kenya, both with 1,200 points. This achieve­ment makes the Caribbean na­tion the top-ranked team in the Pan Amer­i­can Hock­ey Fed­er­a­tion.

​Poland heads the rank­ings with 1,450 points, fol­lowed by the trio of Oman, In­dia, and Malaysia with 1,400. Egypt sits in fifth with 1,350, just ahead of the Nether­lands (1,325). Oth­er no­table Pan-Amer­i­can rank­ings in­clude the USA at 12th and Ja­maica at 16th.

​At the 2024 FIH Hock­ey5s World Cup in Mus­cat, Oman, the Dar­ren Cowie-coached T&T team fin­ished eighth in the 16-team tour­na­ment. They were nar­row­ly de­feat­ed 7–5 by Kenya in the sev­enth-place play­off.

In their Pool C round-robin match­es, T&T pre­vi­ous­ly de­feat­ed the Kenyans 7-2 af­ter a 5-5 draw with Aus­tralia and an 11-4 de­feat against New Zealand for sev­en points, and in the sev­enth-place play­off match, T&T men went un­der to Malaysia 5-4 in their quar­ter­fi­nal, be­fore an 8-5 loss to Egypt in their fifth-to-eighth-place semi­fi­nal.

The "Ca­lyp­so Stick­men" qual­i­fied for the World Cup af­ter a sec­ond-placed fin­ish be­hind the USA at the Hock­ey5s Pan Amer­i­can Cup in Kingston, Ja­maica, last June by a mar­gin of 3-2 on penal­ties af­ter a 2-2 draw in reg­u­la­tion time.

​In Kingston, Teague Mar­cano was the stand­out per­former, fin­ish­ing as the top scor­er with a tour­na­ment-high 17 goals and earn­ing the "Most Valu­able Play­er" (MVP) award. Akim Tou­s­saint and Mick­ell Pierre added 10 goals each, con­tribut­ing to T&T’s tour­na­ment-high team to­tal of 48 goals.

In oth­er World Cup play­off ac­tion, In­dia edged Egypt 6-4 for the fifth spot, Oman bat­tled past Poland 3-2 for the bronze medals, and the Nether­lands com­plet­ed the women’s and men’s gold medal sweep with a 5-2 whip­ping of Malaysia in the fi­nal.

T&T men al­so have a cred­i­ble in­door rank­ing of 13th in the world and sec­ond in the Pan Amer­i­can re­gion be­hind Ar­genti­na, which is ranked ninth in the world.

In out­door hock­ey, T&T's men's team is ranked 46th in the world, on­ly be­hind Ar­genti­na (5th), Cana­da (19th), Chile (23rd), USA (26th), Mex­i­co (32nd) and Venezuela, while the na­tion­al women's team has a rank­ing of 55th to trail Ar­genti­na (2nd), Chile (11th), USA (12th), Uruguay (17th), Cana­da (26th), Mex­i­co (32nd), Cu­ba (40th), Guatemala (41st), Bar­ba­dos (42nd), Puer­to Ri­co (43rd), Pe­ru (45th), Paraguay (46th) and the 50th-ranked Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic.