The newly-elected president of the Central American and Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CONCENCABA), Patrick Haynes, is banking on a collective approach from the affiliated National Federations to advance the sport within the FIBA Sub-Zone region.
Haynes, on February 14, was elected to the position following the CONCENCABA Assembly and Elections in Miami, USA.
Founded in 1926, CONCENCABA is a body of FIBA Americas with mirrored powers and responsibilities for its geographic region.
Currently, the National Member Federations assigned to CONCENCABA by the FIBA Central Board are Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the Virgin Islands.
CONCENCABA recognizes the superior authority of FIBA and FIBA Americas.
Subject to the overriding authority of FIBA and FIBA Americas, CONCENCABA is the only competent authority to promote the practice of basketball and to organize competitions within the Sub-Zone of Central America and the Caribbean.
Meanwhile, Modesto Robeldo of Mexico, president of the Confederación Centroamericana de Baloncesto (COCABA) will serve as Haynes’ first Vice President, while Interim president of the Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC), Leslie Collymore (St Lucia) is the Second Vice President.
Sabrina Mitchell (St Vincent and the Grenadines) is the CONCENCABA Secretary.
The CBC At Large Members are Claire Mitchell (Trinidad and Tobago) and Kenneth Vrojijk (Aruba); the COCABA At Large Members are Jair Peralta (Panama) and Frank Martinez Arias (Costa Rica).