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Roseau, Dominica. The Dominica Olympic Committee (DOC) is pleased to announce its representation once again on the international sporting stage, with an eleven (11) member delegation comprising of six (6) athletes and five (5) officials, competing in Athletics, Boxing, and Swimming at the 2023 Caribbean and Central American (CAC) Games.<\/p>\n
The Games, held in San Salvador, El Salvador begins with the Opening Ceremony on Friday, June 23, 2023, at which Swimming athlete Jasmine Schofield will execute the role of flag bearer for her country for the first time ever.<\/p>\n
The team, detailed below, is led by Chef De Mission, Mr. Egbert Charles, at his inaugural Games as Chef de Mission.<\/p>\n
Swimming<\/strong><\/p>\n Coach: Athlete: Track and Field<\/strong><\/p>\n Coach: Athlete: Boxing<\/strong><\/p>\n Coach: Athlete: The DOC enters the Games looking to build on the organization’s previous medal tally of three (3), whilst making history with female representation in Swimming by Jasmine Schofield.<\/p>\n The CAC Games are a multi-sport regional championship event, held every quadrennial with countries representing Mr. Billy Doctrove, President of the Dominica Olympic Committee commented “Whilst our team size may be small, we are confident in the quality of athletes selected to represent Dominica and are confident we will be represented on the podium on more than one occasion. We are also happy to see Swimming represented at the CAC Games for the first time since I became President and would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the respective Associations on the work they are putting in to develop the sport at the local level. I take this opportunity to wish all the athletes and officials a successful and enjoyable 2023 CAC Games.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roseau, Dominica. The Dominica Olympic Committee (DOC) is pleased to announce its representation once again on the international sporting stage, with an eleven (11) member delegation comprising of six (6) athletes and five (5) officials, competing in Athletics, Boxing, and…","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":304207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[77,235,9,14,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage","category-homepage-carousel","category-news","category-regional","category-sports"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nFrancillia Schofield<\/p>\n
\nJasmine Schofield<\/p>\n
\nAaron Gadson<\/p>\n
\nThea Lafond (Triple Jump)
\nTristan James (Long Jump)
\nDennick Luke (800m)<\/p>\n
\nJob Joseph<\/p>\n
\nDelroy Charles
\nJoshua Toussaint<\/p>\n
\nfrom Central America, the Caribbean, as well as Bermuda, Mexico, and the South American countries of Colombia, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela. The Games will run for a duration of two (2) weeks, with the closing ceremony held on July 8, 2023.<\/p>\n