The
referees’ certification course is part of the federation’s efforts at
developing the sport at grassroots level and the exercise will have
World Squash Federation-certified referee Lucky Mlilo of Zimbabwe as
resource person.
After successfully staging a two-day coaching course in Ilorin,
Kwara State, the Nigeria Squash Federation is organizing another two-day
National Referees’ Certification Course in Lagos on March 26 and 27 at
the Teslim Balogun Stadium.
The referees’ certification course is part of the federation’s
efforts at developing the sport at grassroots level and the exercise
will have World Squash Federation-certified referee Lucky Mlilo of
Zimbabwe as resource person.
According to the President of NSF, Boye Oyerinde, the training and
retraining of coaches and officiating officials is a key factor, and
pre-requisite towards the development of squash, especially at the
grassroots development.
For Oyerinde, the training of officiating officials would help to
acquaint them with the latest on the sport, while stating that training
of officials would be a continuous exercise, and he emphasized that more
attention is being focused on grassroots development.
He said: “It is very important for our referees to update their
knowledge and we have decided to do this with a world class certified
official who will be on ground for two days to pass the knowledge to our
officiating officials. Just like I stated during the coaching course in
Ilorin, our efforts to improve the fortune of the sport will be an
all-round as we are helping the players and coaches, the officials will
not be left behind because they will also help us as well as partners in
progress.”
Oyerinde added that federation intends to work with schools, and
also taking into account the available squash facilities in the country
to train players that have been categorized into U-13, U-16, U19 and
senior in both male and female categories.
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