Teachers complete swim coaching clinic

AN enthusiastic group of coaches and teachers have successfully completed their coaching clinic last week.
PNG Swimming president Elizabeth Wells said the clinic was a follow on from the green licence course held in 2007. The clinic this year has complimented the course in 2007 with an insight to the Bronze Licence Australian Accreditation course.
She said the coaching clinic provided both theory and practical classes. The clinic classes were held from 9am to 2pm with a pool practical session from 3pm to 5pm.
Visiting Australian coach Bernie Mulroy educated our coaches and teachers in PNG to become more effective swimming coaches.
“A young swimmer’s level of acquisition of skill and his/her improvement of physical fitness is dependent on not just talent, but frequency and duration of exposure to the activity, and the quality of instruction, over the season, not forgetting the coach is a very important person in a swimmers life,” said Mulroy.
The group of coaches and teachers were Doris Mileng, Tony Sari, Joe Meauri, Caroline Terz, Fiona Raftery, Barbara Skelton, Belinda Williams, Bernadette Hunt, Henrietta Ampa’oi, Nikki George, Peter Kunda from Boroko Swim Club, Andrew Jubilee, from Boroko campus and Ismael Nombi, Barbara Sapea of Koroborsea Campus of the Korobosea Boroko East International School, Caroline Cooper and Helen Joseph from Lae Swim Club, Wape Zilling, Marge Yukil, Vali Gora, and Oveti Meaporo, from The Ela Murray International School, and Liz Wells co-ordinator for Papua New Guinea Swimming Inc.
Wells said PNGSI acknowledges with appreciation the shared funding support by FINA, Swimming Australia and ONOC TO Oceania Swimming Association to enable the course to go ahead in Port Moresby.
“Our goal is to provide our swimmers with the best coaching available; we need to educate our coaches providing them with the latest and best information available, the FINA Centenary Oceania Development Program provided an opportunity for all to improve in coaching theory and skills,” said Elizabeth Wells.
“It also provided a learning platform in a fun, casual and extremely informative environment for all to learn with Bernie, said Wells”