Central American & Caribbean Tennis Confederation

Central American & Caribbean Tennis Confederation
SportTennis
JurisdictionCentral America and the Caribbean
Abbreviation(COTECC)
AffiliationInternational Tennis Federation
PresidentPersio Maldonado [1]
Official website
www.cotecc.org.sv

The Confederation of Tennis of Central America and the Caribbean (COTECC) is the dependency of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) in the region whose objective is to implement policies that develop tennis in Central America and the Caribbean. The organization is based in the Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and is made up of 34 countries.

The purpose of COTECC is to encourage, direct, organize, regulate, govern and disseminate the practice of tennis; organize, sponsor and / or run tournaments, championships, training programs and workshops for the National Tennis Federations of the Caribbean and Central America; and maintain affiliation with the ITF on behalf of the geographic area of the Caribbean and Central America.

COTECC is one of the six regional tennis divisions worldwide, together with the South American Tennis Confederation (Cosat), the African Tennis Confederation (CAT), the Asian Tennis Federation (ATF), the Tennis Federation of Oceania (OTF) and the European Tennis Association (TE).

The regional body has two Development Officers whose purpose is to continue raising the level of tennis in the region. One of them is Cecilia Ancalmo, from El Salvador, in charge of Central America and the Spanish-speaking countries of the Caribbean; and John Goede, from Suriname, responsible for the English, French and Dutch Caribbean nations.

History

COTECC was created in 1992 as one of the points discussed in the Annual General Meeting of the ITF held in La Romana, Dominican Republic, in which it was agreed to create a governing body for tennis that would unite the countries of Central America, the Spanish Caribbean and the English Caribbean.

It was that same year, in Mexico, the COTECC statutes were signed and also the Mexican Jesus Topete was selected as the first president of the Confederation for a period of two years.

However, as the former president of the organism Gonzalo Mejía says, there were other organizations that preceded COTECC as tennis governing body in the area, although they never received recognition from the ITF. In 1968, as a result of the beginning of the Open Era, tennis was left out of the Olympics, which automatically meant that it was not an official sport in the Pan American or the Central American and Caribbean Games.

This situation resulted in several countries founding the Pan-American Tennis Confederation in 1971, which had the recognition of the national Olympic committees of all America, which produced the return of tennis to the Central Americans and the Caribbean Santo Domingo 74 and the Pan American Games of Mexico 75.

Mejía adds that for the year 1982, during Central American and Caribbean Games in Havana, Cuba, it formed the basis for creating the COTECC that we currently have: the Central American and Caribbean Confederation of Tennis, with a large part of the countries that make it up today.

President

The COTECC elections for the Steering Committee are held every two years at the Annual General Meeting, in which the member countries choose a president, two vice-presidents, two directors and each of the four heads of the subregions.

The current president is Persio Maldonado, from the Dominican Republic, who was re-elected last June for the period 2018–2020. In 2016, Maldonado assumed the presidency of the institution for the first time.

Maldonado relies on the Salvadoran Enrique Molins, who was leading the regional body between 2000 and 2016, this being the longest period for a president in the history of COTECC.

Prior to Molins and Maldonado were presidents Jesús Topete, from Mexico, (1992-1996), and Gonzalo Mejía, from the Dominican Republic, (1996-2000).

Affiliated members

These are the members of COTECC:[2]

Country Association Headquarters President
 Anguilla Anguilla National Tennis Association The Valley Ernest Valerntine Banks
 Antigua and Barbuda Antigua and Barbuda Tennis Association Saint John Cordell Williams
 Aruba Aruba Lawn Tennis Bond Oranjestad Ronald Tchong
 Bahamas Bahamas Lawn Tennis Association Nassau Perry E Newton
 Barbados Barbados Lawn Tennis Association Bridgetown Raymond Forde
 Belize Belize Tennis Association Belize City Samira Musa Pott
 Bermuda Bermuda Lawn Tennis Association Hamilton Michael Wolfe
 Bonaire Bonaire Lawn Tennis Bond Kralendijk Nigel Paul
 British Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands Lawn Tennis Association Road Town Carol Mitchell
 Cayman Islands Tennis Federation of the Cayman Islands George Town Susan Lindsay
 Costa Rica Federación Costarricense de Tenis San Jose Carlos Bravo
 Cuba Federacion Cubana de Tenis de Campo Havana Alexander Ferrales
 Curaçao Tennis Federation Curaçao Willemstad Albert Martis
 Dominican Republic Federación Dominicana de Tenis Santo Domingo Persio Maldonado
 El Salvador Federación Salvadoreña de Tenis San Salvador Rafael Arévalo
French Guiana French Guiana Tennis Fédération Cayenne Fabrice Prevot
 Grenada Grenada Tennis Association St. George's Curlan Gilchrist
Guadeloupe Guadeloupe Tennis Federation Point-a-Pitre Christian Forbin
 Guatemala Federación Nacional de Tenis de Guatemala Guatemala City Tulio Dávila
 Guyana Guyana Tennis Association Georgetown Samuel Barakat
 Haiti Fédération Haitienne de Tennis Port-au-Prince Joseph Etienne
 Honduras Federación Hondureña de Tenis Tegucigalpa Ivanhoe Cálix
 Jamaica Tennis Jamaica Kingston Aswad Morgan
 Martinique Martinican Tennis Federation Fort de France Germain Soumbo
 Mexico Federación Mexicana de Tenis Mexico City José Antonio Flores
 Nicaragua Federacion Nicaraguense de Tenis Managua Luis Silva
 Panama Federación Panameña de Tenis Panama City Jorge Arrue
 Puerto Rico Asociacion de Tenis de Puerto Rico Santurce Héctor Cabrera
 Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Kitts and Nevis Tennis Association Bassetere Watkins C. Chiverton
 Saint Lucia St Lucia Lawn Tennis Association Castries Stephen Mcnamara
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines St. Vincent & The Grenadines Tennis Association Kingstown Brian Nash
 Suriname Surinaamse Tennis Bond Paramaribo Diego Van der Zwart
 Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago Tennis Association Port of Spain Hayden Mitchell
 United States Virgin Islands Virgin Islands Tennis Association Saint Thomas Kelly Kuipers

References

  1. ^ a b "Board Committee". Confederation de Tenis de Centroamerica Caribe. Archived from the original on March 21, 2012. Retrieved March 21, 2011.
  2. ^ "Members Countries". Confederation de Tenis de Centroamerica Caribe. Archived from the original on March 21, 2012. Retrieved January 28, 2012.