Thirty-two (32) local celebrities including West Indies Cricketer Ramnaresh Sarwan and reigning Sportswoman of the Year Shondell Alfred will be competing on Saturday August 20th at The Knights Basketball Club Second Annual Celebrity Basketball Game.
The event is billed for this Saturday at 19:00hrs at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall and apart from the Celebrity Game, There will be three supporting games featured top local teams. The Celebrity Game cast has been beefed up this year to include a wider pool of celebrities.
The list includes twice the amount of females from last year, athletes from more sports disciplines and even prominent professionals. Proceeds from last year’s event were donated to Joshua’s House and this year The Support Group for Deaf Persons has been earmarked. Scotia Bank and Republic Bank will play the first supporting game followed by Giftland Office Max versus Qualfon and Youth Basketball Guyana’s (YBG) Elite versus Knights.
Below is a complete list of this year’s participants:
Athletes
- Ronson Williams (National Football goal keeper)
- Theodore Henry (National Rugby Coach/player )
- Godfrey Munroe (Former National Table Tennis Champion)
- Ramnaresh Sarwan (West Indies Cricketer)
- Charles Ramson (Cricketer/Attorney-at-Law for Office of President)
- Chris Barnwell (National Cricketer)
- Kiev Chesney (2007 Junior National 800m champion /2010 Sports Reporter of the Year)
- Steven Jacobs (National Cricketer)
- Stephen Vieira (Superbike champion )
- Edison Jefford (Former National Runner/Sports Reporter)
- Leon Johnson (National Cricketer)
- Paul DeNobrega (National Junior Cyclist Champion)
- Leer Nunes (National Cyclist)
- Jody-Ann Blake (National Female Tennis Champion)
- Shondell Alfred (Guyana Female Boxing Champion/Sports Woman of the Year)
- Kezqweyah Yisrael (Sports/Fitness Guru)
Entertainers
- Chow Pow (Actor/Comedian)
- Adrian Dutchin (Musician)
- Jonthan Beepat (Wildfire Ent./Beepats)
- James Bond (Attorney-at-Law)
- Curtis MacKenzie (Curtis Workout/Fitness Guru}
- Gialiani (Musician)
- Lisa Punch (Musician)
- Sheldon Brathwaite (Actor)
- Compton Bobb (Artist/Marketing Manager Giftland OfficeMax)
- Trevor Rose (Designer)
- Joel Browne (Musician)
- Michael Ignatious (Actor)
- Dellon Peters (Graphics Designer Digicel/TV Host)
- Vanila (Musician)
- DJ Akelo (Stereo Sonics DJ)
- DJ Casual (Radio DJ)