By: Spokesman Newsroom
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts (Friday 14th August 2020) — President of the St. Kitts-Nevis Tennis Association and Camp Director Watkins Chiverton says officials and athletes have been following COVID-19 hygiene guidelines to ensure safe interactions during the 2020 summer Tennis Camp held at Warner Park from Monday 10th to Friday 14th August.
“As soon as they come in, they have to sanitize and we use the temperature gun so that they get their temperature checked. We have the hand soaps and then we have a running register where the parents actually sign in the children and sign out so at least in terms of contact tracing, we know who was here. They show up with their face masks and they’re doing their best to get their hands clean and keeping their distance,” he said.
The camp has seen over forty players from a wide cross section of St. Kitts with an almost balanced gender ratio, ranging in age from 7 to 17. Chiverton noted significant player development: “Some of these players that you’re seeing now, we can predict that within the next four, five years, they are going to be competing not just regionally. When we first launched our junior programme in March, by May some of our athletes were able to participate in Antigua and reach as far as the semifinals and quarterfinals.”