Jamaica has named a strong three-man boxing team to represent the country at the region’s first Schoolboys and Juniors Caribbean Boxing Tournament scheduled for tomorrow through Saturday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall in Guyana.

Jamaica’s three representatives will be headed by group leader Joshua Forrest-Davidson, Daniel Hylton and Jerome Ennis with AIBA Coach (level 2) Robert Napier as coach/manager, and will leave Jamaica tomorrow for the South American country.

Forrest-Davidson, 18, and a student at Calabar High School, will compete in the welterweight division. Hylton, 17, a student at Donald Quarrie High School, is the most experienced of the boxers, having won a silver medal while participating in the youth section of the Youth, Junior, Novice and Open Class tournament at the Cliff Anderson Hall in Guyana last year. He will compete in the featherweight division. Ennis, 16, also from Donald Quarrie High, will compete as a lightweight.

The boxers were undergoing specialised training drills when the Jamaica Observer visited a workout session on Monday at Stanley Couch Gym, and after their drills Coach Napier said he was pleased with the progress of the training and was expecting nothing less than gold from his boxers.

“We have been training, with a level of intensity that could only work in our favour,” he said.

Asked to single out one representative from which he could expect gold, “All three” was his response.

A number of other Caribbean countries that include Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago and St Lucia with commendable boxing cultures have indicated participation, and with this in mind, the inaugural schoolboys and junior competition promises to be a slugfest among the youngsters as they seek glory for their respective countries.