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KINGSTON, Jamaica, May 19, 2015 - As the Jamaica Volleyball
Association (JaVA) continues its efforts to transform volleyball
into a major sport in Jamaica, the Association has moved to
increase its coaching capacity through the staging of JaVA Level
One Coaching Courses.
Capitalizing on the visit of International Volleyball Coach,
Augusto Sabbatini of Brazil, , JaVA will first hold the course
in Montego Bay from 18-22 May 2015, then in Kingston from 26-29
May 2015.
The course in Montego Bay will be conducted in partnership with
Montego Bay Community College and aims to facilitate interested
persons in western Jamaica. The course in Kingston will be held
in conjunction with Mico Teachers College to facilitate others.
Major Warrenton Dixon, JaVA's Development Manager, stated that
coaching development was essential to the achievement of our
long term vision of being an international force in volleyball.
"We have seen substantial improvement in the quality of play in
our average youth players because of the primary-level schools
programme. Notwithstanding, we have not been able to conduct a
course of this nature that builds the theoretical and tactical
competences of our coaches at this level. These courses will
therefore go a long way to strengthen the foundation of our
development programme."
Dixon also thanked the Regional Body, CAZOVA, and the NORCECA
Confederation, for their continued investment in the development
of volleyball.
"Having coach Sabbatini here (for a second time in one year)
cost a lot of money; so we are very appreciative and we want to
maximize this opportunity,” Dixon said. “It would be good though
if we received the required funding support locally so we could
take this kind of initiative more often."
President of JaVA, Rudolph Speid, was also thankful to NORCECA
and CAZOVA for their investment in the development of volleyball
in Jamaica.
"Jamaica is currently ranked as a Category II National
Volleyball Federation, which simply means that the perception of
our level of play and administration is low. As we did with the
recent beach volleyball tournament, JaVA wants to advertise to
the world that we are not here to play second fiddle to any
country. We intend to at least take Jamaica to Category III in
the next 2-3 years. What we have to do is to continue to provide
our players and administrators with the needed funding support
from both local and international sources."z |
