Denartment


 Hurray for the
 COB Lady Caribs and
 Sporting Firsts for
 The College!
 If ambitions for the success of
 sports at COB are based on the
 recent resurgence and success
 of the women's basketball team,
 coached by Vice President of
 Academic Affairs Dr. Linda
 Davis, we can reach very high
 indeed. The Lady Caribs went to
 US Virgin Islands from January
 13th to 17th to compete against
 The Fall semester saw college teams there and took
the appointment of new Athletics command. The COB Lady Caribs
Director, Greg Harshaw, to the beat the University of the Virgin
staff at COB. Radiating zeal, the Islands women's team twice. Mr.
new director has come in with a Harshaw reports an additional
slew of ambitious plans for sports benefit-the games allowed the
development at The College. team to gain experience of play
As part of the push towards under NCAA rules, which are
university status, he proposes that different from the FIBA rules
College sports teams compete used in the New Providence
in the NCAA or in Division 2 league. These games were also
or 3 of the South Florida area of of historic significance-The
NAIA by 2007 8. COB Lady Caribs led the way
 Five core sports have been in making The College of the
identified for development or Bahamas the first Caribbean-
enhancement and promotion:
basketball, volleyball, soccer,
tennis, and track & field. Men's
and women's teams are currently
being selected in these areas.
Plans are also afoot to start men
and women's golf teams. All of the
teams will be competing in the
leagues locally until the proposed
move to NCAA or NAIA.


region college to play in this kind
of competition and have thereby
provided a platform for the future
development of a Caribbean
colleges basketball league.

Launch of Student
Activities at
NBC and
a Tennis Team First
On January 27th and 28th
saw the grand opening of the
Northern Campus Activities
and Recreational Centre,
headquartered at Grand Bahama
Squash Club. Launch activities
included a community interest
meeting to determine needs, a
Fun Run and Walk Race with
a presentation of trophies, a
volleyball tournament and a
social for all launch participants.
The same weekend COB tennis
team members played in the
IBIS Open Tournament in
Miami making the College of
The Bahamas the first Caribbean
member of the Inter Collegiate
Tennis Association. E


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