Athletics PNG to run broad coaches course

ATHLETICS PNG development officer Dior Lowry is planning to deliver the first Athletics PNG coaching course starting tomorrow at the National Sports Institute, Goroka.
A total of 24 participants are expected to attend the course, including eight females. Entitled fundamentals of coaching, the course will, apart from covering each event group and discipline, also cover topics such as: chronic diseases, OPT model, the nervous system, joints and muscles, endocrine system and carbohydrates, the Cardiovascular System, Human Movement, Flexibility Training and The Coach.
Lowry, who is in PNG under an IAAF-funded project, aimed at developing coaches and athletes, will be assisted in delivering the course by NSI staff Janet Gimots, Samu Sasama and Mike Smith as well as APNG coaches Bernard Manau and Subul Babo.
Visiting coaches Phillip Newton and Brett Green are also being invited to assist in their specialist areas of jumps and throws. Athletics PNG president Tony Green commended Lowry for his work in putting together the 68-page course manual.
He said that there were a lot of people assisting around the country in athletics in various capacities, especially coaching and organising athletic activities in their respective centres who had not had any formal coaching education, so there was a real need for this course. “With so many of these individuals already in Goroka for the training camp this was an ideal opportunity to deliver the course,” Green added. The course will be delivered in eight half-day sections over a period of 10 days. This is to avoid interrupting the ongoing athletes’ training camp and to allow participants time to absorb new things and for informal discussions.