Eve names Cordner, Gosine, Martin and Pollard in 35-member T&T training squad

Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Senior Team head coach Angus Eve named a 35-member training squad today as the Women Soca Warriors prepare for an international friendly against Jamaica later this month.

The Jamaica outing will be the team’s sole warm-up match before next month’s opening Concacaf W Qualifiers, and follows a period of close to two years of inactivity.

Photo: Trinidad and Tobago forward Kennya Cordner (right) in action against the Dominican Republic on 26 November 2021.
(via TTFA Media.)

Trinidad and Tobago are grouped with Barbados, Honduras and El Salvador, with only the winners advancing to next year’s Concacaf W Championship.

Eve’s training squad comprises a combination of familiar faces and rising talent with veterans Kennya “YaYa” Cordner, Rhea Belgrave and the Forbes sisters, Kimika and Karyn, alongside roughly half a dozen schoolgirls from the TTFA High Performance Programme.


Bishop Anstey High School East playmaker Orielle Martin, Pleasantville Secondary attacker Nikita Gosine and the St Joseph’s Convent (Port of Spain) duo of forward Sydney Pollard and utility player Kaitlyn Darwent were all summoned.

Former national youth standouts Afiyah Cornwall, Aaliyah Prince and Kayla Prince got the nod as well along with recent TTFA Players of the Year Victoria Swift and Asha James.

St Joseph’s Convent captain Kaitlyn Darwent whips in a corner kick during SSFL North Championship action against Tranquillity Secondary in St Clair on 21 September 2025.
Photo: Dirk Allahar/ bCreative/ Wired868.

Eve’s training squad:

Goalkeepers: Kimika Forbes, Keri Myers, Malaika Dedier, Tenesha Palmer;

Defenders: Victoria Swift, Rhea Belgrave, Chrissy Mitchell, Nathifa Hackshaw, Jade Bekai, Shaunalee Govia, Tsai-Anne Fernandez, Tamara Smart, Kaitlyn Darwent, Kanika Rodriguez;

Midfielders: Asha James, Orielle Martin, Chelcy Ralph, Cherina Steele, Naomie Guerra, Renee Mike, Karyn Forbes, Mariah Williams, Shurella Mendez, Shenieka Paul;

T&T Red Angels attackers Orielle Martin (right) and Nikita Gosine share mutual appreciation during their Jewels of the Caribbean contest with Dominica at the Larry Gomes Stadium in Malabar on 15 December 2024.
Photo: TTFA Media.

Attackers: Alexcia Ali, Kennya Cordner, Aaliyah Prince, Nikita Gosine, Afiyah Cornwall, Kayla Prince, Tyeisha Griffith, J’Eleisha Alexander, Jovanah Moreno, Sydney Pollard, Rasheda Archer.

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