NETBALL IN POINT FORTIN

Date of birth: 6th. April, 1935. Place of birth:  Parry Lands, Guapo; Trinidad. Education:  Guapo Government School. Seamstress. Profession:  Seamstress. Hobbies:  Netball, sewing and cooking. Favourite:  Books on sports and the Holy Bible. Favourite:  food-  Fruits. Position played on court Centre court. ELTIN OGIS.

Due to her love for the game Eltin started playing netball in the early 1950's when Rita Elcock and Lucille Edwards founded a team called Unity Youths' of Guapo.

In 1975 Eltin became Manager of Dynamos

Netball Team and was selected Vice-President of the Point Fortin League from 1975 to 1990.

In 1976 she represented Point Fortin on the National Executive.

In 1990 she was elected President of the Point Fortin League; and in 1991 elected second Vice President of the National Executive of the Trinidad and Tobago Netball Association.

In 1992 she traveled as a delegate with the national team to Antigua for the Caribbean Tourna­ment.

Today, she hopes to see more sponsorship for netball teams and for proper courts to be built in the Point Fortin area.