‘Sports is not a past time’ – Mc Lean

Former St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Windwards and West Indies cricketer Nixon Mc Lean wants persons who are getting involved in sports not to look at it as a past time.{{more}}

Mc Lean made this point as he addressed a Sports Consultation organized by the South East Development Inc. (SEDI) last Monday evening at the Stubbs Government School.

Called to revilatise sports in the South East community, Mc Lean said: “I never knew that by just bowling a ball that I would have been able to make a million dollars from it.”

“Not to say that I still have that,” he quickly added.

Mc Lean, who also played as a professional KwaZulu-Natal cricketer in South Africa, as well as Hampshire and Somerset in the English County Championships and for Canterbury in New Zealand, said these earnings have helped him in personal development and investment.

Now retired from national and international Cricket, Mc Lean pointed to the modern day sportsmen and women and their financial exploits, made possible by their participation in various sporting disciplines.

Born in the village of Stubbs, one of the villages which make up the South East community, Mc Lean is among a long list of sportsmen and women that that part of the country has produced.

Among them are Mc Lean siblings: Kissinger, Reagan, Golda; Dawnley Joseph, his son Dawnley Grant; outstanding national Football goal keeper Melvin Andrews and Dr. Lennox Adams, a former national athlete and the first President of the National Olympic Committee.

Adams was also on hand to lend his knowledge at last Monday’s consultation.

He thought that the best way to rekindle the spirit of the community is “to get the community to play”.

And, SEDI has already taken up Adams’ proposal, and is running with it.

A Sports Extravaganza is on the cards for around the time this country celebrates it 31st anniversary of political Independence, October 27.

It is envisaged that all sports played in the community will be highlighted during the one day Sports Extravaganza to be held at the Stubbs Playing Field.

SEDI expects participation from all villages within the South East belt, which encompasses Stubbs, Victoria Village, Bonhomme, Brighton, Argyle, Carapan, Calder, and Diamond.

Also making presentations at the consultation were Vincent Benjamin, Citroy Wilkes and Chairman of SEDI, Albert Harry. (RT)