Pres­i­dent of the T&T Vol­ley­ball Fed­er­a­tion, Mush­taque Mo­hammed was re-elect­ed to serve as a mem­ber of the North, Cen­tral Amer­i­ca and Caribbean Vol­ley­ball Con­fed­er­a­tion (NORCE­CA) Ex­ec­u­tive Com­mit­tee for a sev­enth straight term.

This was con­firmed when the con­fed­er­a­tion held its 25th con­gress util­is­ing a vir­tu­al plat­form from San­to Domin­go, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic on last week­end.

The con­gress was orig­i­nal­ly card­ed for June but was post­poned due to the coro­n­avirus (COVID-19) pan­dem­ic.

Mo­hammed was al­ready as­sured of his po­si­tion on the NORCE­CA Ex­ec­u­tive board for its four-year term 2920-2024 af­ter he was re­turned as the pres­i­dent of the Caribbean Zon­al Vol­ley­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (CA­ZO­VA) at their last an­nu­al gen­er­al meet­ing (AGM) held in Kingston, Ja­maica, last No­vem­ber, and last week his ap­point­ment was made of­fi­cial at the con­gress while he will al­so con­tin­ue serv­ing in the role of pres­i­dent of De­vel­op­ment Com­mis­sion, Mem­ber of the Sport Or­gan­is­ing Com­mis­sion and Beach Com­mis­sion.

In ad­di­tion to Mo­hammed, an­oth­er long-serv­ing of­fi­cial Daymi­an Stew­art (Sec­re­tary Beach Com­mis­sion), as well as Aaron Pol­lard (Mar­ket­ing Com­mis­sion mem­ber), Ear­lene Pereira (In­ter­nal Au­di­tor of NORCE­CA), Bri­an Charles (Co­or­di­na­tor Ref­er­ees Com­mis­sion CA­ZO­VA), and Shelly Per­ry­man-Pol­lard (Le­gal Com­mis­sion mem­ber), the lat­ter of whom is the lone T&T per­son who stood for elec­tion on the re­spec­tive com­mis­sions, was not a mem­ber of the TTVF ex­ec­u­tive or a board mem­ber were all elect­ed.

For­mer T&T se­nior women's team coach, Cuban-born Fran­cis­co "Panchee" Cruz, cur­rent­ly the Uni­ver­si­ty of T&T Women's Vol­ley­ball High-Per­for­mance Coach was al­so named as Pres­i­dent of the NORCE­CA Tech­ni­cal and Coach­es Com­mis­sion.

Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic's Cristo­bal Marte Hof­fiz of Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, was re-elect­ed by ac­cla­ma­tion as Pres­i­dent of the NORCE­CA for the pe­ri­od 2020-2024, hav­ing oc­cu­pied the po­si­tion since 2001, fol­low­ing the res­ig­na­tion of the late Luis “Lu­lo” Men­doza, and since then he has been re-elect­ed on four oc­ca­sions.

The con­gress had the par­tic­i­pa­tion of the 41 Na­tion­al Fed­er­a­tions and Ter­ri­to­ries, mem­bers of the Ex­ec­u­tive Com­mit­tee, the staff of NORCE­CA be­sides the pres­i­dent and the Ex­ec­u­tive Di­rec­tor of FIVB.