Central American & Caribbean Tennis Confederation

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Central American & Caribbean Tennis Confederation
Sport Tennis
JurisdictionCentral America and the Caribbean
Abbreviation(COTECC)
Affiliation International 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.

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Purpose

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.[ citation needed ]

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]

CountryAssociationHeadquartersPresident
Flag of Anguilla.svg Anguilla Anguilla National Tennis Association The Valley Ernest Valerntine Banks
Flag of Antigua and Barbuda.svg Antigua and Barbuda Antigua and Barbuda Tennis Association Saint John Cordell Williams
Flag of Aruba.svg  Aruba Aruba Lawn Tennis Bond Oranjestad Ronald Tchong
Flag of the Bahamas.svg  Bahamas Bahamas Lawn Tennis Association Nassau Perry E Newton
Flag of Barbados.svg  Barbados Barbados Lawn Tennis Association Bridgetown Raymond Forde
Flag of Belize.svg Belize Belize Tennis Association Belize City Samira Musa Pott
Flag of Bermuda.svg  Bermuda Bermuda Lawn Tennis Association Hamilton Michael Wolfe
Flag of Bonaire.svg Bonaire Bonaire Lawn Tennis Bond Kralendijk Nigel Paul
Flag of the British Virgin Islands.svg British Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands Lawn Tennis Association Road Town Carol Mitchell
Flag of the Cayman Islands.svg Cayman Islands Tennis Federation of the Cayman Islands George Town Susan Lindsay
Flag of Costa Rica.svg  Costa Rica Federación Costarricense de Tenis San Jose Carlos Bravo
Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba Federacion Cubana de Tenis de Campo Havana Alexander Ferrales
Flag of Curacao.svg  Curaçao Tennis Federation Curaçao Willemstad Albert Martis
Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg  Dominican Republic Federación Dominicana de Tenis Santo Domingo Persio Maldonado
Flag of El Salvador.svg  El Salvador Federación Salvadoreña de Tenis San Salvador Rafael Arévalo
Flag of French Guiana.svg French Guiana French Guiana Tennis Fédération Cayenne Fabrice Prevot
Flag of Grenada.svg  Grenada Grenada Tennis Association St. George's Curlan Gilchrist
Flag of France.svg Guadeloupe Guadeloupe Tennis FederationPoint-a-Pitre Christian Forbin
Flag of Guatemala.svg  Guatemala Federación Nacional de Tenis de Guatemala Guatemala City Tulio Dávila
Flag of Guyana.svg Guyana Guyana Tennis Association Georgetown Samuel Barakat
Flag of Haiti.svg  Haiti Fédération Haitienne de Tennis Port-au-Prince Joseph Etienne
Flag of Honduras (2022-).svg  Honduras Federación Hondureña de Tenis Tegucigalpa Ivanhoe Cálix
Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica Tennis Jamaica Kingston Aswad Morgan
Flag-of-Martinique.svg Martinique Martinican Tennis Federation Fort de France Germain Soumbo
Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico Federación Mexicana de Tenis Mexico City José Antonio Flores
Flag of Nicaragua.svg  Nicaragua Federacion Nicaraguense de Tenis Managua Luis Silva
Flag of Panama.svg  Panama Federación Panameña de Tenis Panama City Jorge Arrue
Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico Asociacion de Tenis de Puerto Rico Santurce Héctor Cabrera
Flag of Saint Kitts and Nevis.svg Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Kitts and Nevis Tennis Association Bassetere Watkins C. Chiverton
Flag of Saint Lucia.svg  Saint Lucia St Lucia Lawn Tennis Association Castries Stephen Mcnamara
Flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.svg  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines St. Vincent & The Grenadines Tennis Association Kingstown Brian Nash
Flag of Suriname.svg  Suriname Surinaamse Tennis Bond Paramaribo Diego Van der Zwart
Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg  Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago Tennis Association Port of Spain Hayden Mitchell
Flag of the United States Virgin Islands.svg  United States Virgin Islands Virgin Islands Tennis Association Saint Thomas Kelly Kuipers

References

  1. "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.