Coaches from the The Bahamas, St Vincent and the Grenadines, the Cayman Islands, and host nation Jamaica started a three-day teaching course to upskill and enhance the variety of licensed coaches within the area on Friday.
The course, performed below the banner of the World Squash Federation (WSF), covers concept and sensible periods on the Liguanea Membership, New Kingston — the house of the Jamaica Squash Affiliation. It’s being sponsored by the Federation of Pan American Squash. The attendees are contributing to the price of staging the course. Skilled head squash professional Colin White is the facilitator.
White has a WSF and European Squash Federation (ESF) Stage 1, 2 and three licensed coach and tutor for a few years. He has taught and coached the sport of squash in lots of international locations together with the US, Austria, Hungary and Russia.
Jamaica Squash Affiliation President Karen Anderson welcomed the course. She says it was being demanded by individuals within the area, who have been already coaches or wished to turn out to be coaches.
“Individuals had been doing a little casual teaching and wished to standardise and regularise their teaching practices and actually get the correct data as to easy methods to coach, what to educate, what to search for and easy methods to coach correctly and correct methods,” Anderson mentioned.
“And so, there was this clamoring for asking us for a way we might get this teaching course finished and so the Federation of Pan American Squash is sponsoring this occasion,” she continued. “We’ve got 12 individuals registered proper now — three from the Caribbean — One from the Bahamas, one from St Vincent and the Grenadines, and one from Cayman, in order that’s a very nice quantity. We’ve got one junior within the combine as nicely. So we’re actually in search of an ideal course over the [period]. It’s each sensible and concept, and we anticipate that it’s going to come off very nicely and that we’ll have an ideal session going forth for this.”
