Local coaches for ‘psycho’ lessons

NATIONAL sports coaches will benefit from two seminars in Trinidad and Tobago entitled “Strategic Resource Management for Coaches in Sport Psychology” to be hosted by West Indian Tobacco (WITCO) Sports Foundation.

Dr Margaret Ottley, lecturer at West Chester University, Philadelphia, USA, will conduct  the sessions from May 28 to June 1 at the UWI Sports and Physical Education Centre, St Augustine, and June 4-8 in sister-isle Tobago. Ottley will be familiar with a number of local coaches, having served the post as sports psychologist of the Trinidad and Tobago team for the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England. Provision is being made for 30 coaches, who currently manage athletes competing at regional and international level at  each of the five-day seminars.

The sessions will feature classroom and outdoor activities and will cover topics such as mastery of performance, motivation, attention, concentration and anxiety control. According to foundation chairperson Terry Young Sing, “with the Pan Am Games on the horizon (in the Dominican Republic in August), now is the time for our coaches to become equipped with the know-how for inspiring individual and team excellence.” Interested coaches can contact Alison Awai at 625-1801/3.