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TEPIC, Nayarit, Mexico, July 16, 2022.- Mavis
Guilarte Fernandez, Cuban volleyball star,
resides in Tepic contributing to the development
of sports in Nayarit, has been supporting and
enjoying the Men’s Pan American Cup NORCECA
Final Six being played at the Amado Nervo
Auditorium.
Mavis, ex member of the legendary team “Morenas
del Caribe”, Olympic Gold Medalist in 1971 and
1975, as well as Pan American Gold of the 1979
Games in Puerto Rico, explains that this is an
opportunity for the youth of Nayarit and Mexican
athletes.
“Bringing such an important international event
of great transcendence motivates young players
who want to practice highly competitive
volleyball,” said Mavis; “I want to thank the
State’s sport authorities of Nayarit to show our
young community the beauty of volleyball” she
added.
With her charisma and sixteen years of
trajectory representing Cuba, that among other
achievements, she was member of the first Latin
American women volleyball team to win a World
Championship in 1978 in the extinct Soviet
Union, came to Nayarit twenty years ago as part
of a joint agreement between Cuba and Mexico.
“In 1992, came in a group of 156 Cuban sport
experts in methodology, medicine and coaching to
contribute to the development of sport in this
beautiful country; with my experience and
knowledge have served to motivate a new
generation of athletes of the State of Nayarit”
she expressed.
Thanks to Mavis Guilarte's great work during
that agreement, she returned to Nayarit to coach
the women’s volleyball team that has been
national champion.
Mavis also explained that volleyball continues
to be a sport with distinctive characteristics,
over time it has evolved into a great
attraction, more competitive and of great
difficulty that makes it unique.
“There are new rules since I played, for
example, every action is a point and it’s
faster, but it continues to be very technical
and tactic” she added.
In her trajectory as a coach, she has been coach
of the Mexican national team and of Nayarit, “I
have lived the evolution of volleyball and now I
can observe that every team has searched for
players to be more specialized, with physical
traits to perform a specific game position,
which contributes for teams to be more
competitive”.
Mavis left a message to volleyball athletes,
“this is a demanding sport, it teaches to play
as a team, for each one to contribute
individually to benefit the team and mostly it’s
a family sport that promotes human beings to
serve their societies”. |
