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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Aspiring coaches participate in practical sessions

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Sports Desk
939 days ago
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Olympic gold medallist, Emmanuel Callender and 2013 World Hurdles Champion, Jehue Gordon engage in sprints progression training at the practical seesion on Saturday at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Mucurapo, Port-of-Spain.

Olympic gold medallist, Emmanuel Callender and 2013 World Hurdles Champion, Jehue Gordon engage in sprints progression training at the practical seesion on Saturday at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Mucurapo, Port-of-Spain.

Courtesy NAAATT

Olympians, sprint­ers Em­manuel Cal­len­der and Re­yare Thomas, along with 2013 IAAF World Cham­pi­on 400m hur­dler, Je­hue Gor­don, have had dis­tin­guished ath­let­ics ca­reers and are now tran­si­tion­ing in­to coach­ing, hav­ing re­tired from ac­tive com­pe­ti­tion.

They are among 22 as­pir­ing coach­es, who re­cent­ly com­plet­ed the World Ath­let­ics (for­mer­ly IAAF) On­line The­o­ret­i­cal Train­ing for Lev­el 1 Coach­es, and par­tic­i­pat­ed in a prac­ti­cal ses­sion on Sat­ur­day at Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain.

The ses­sion was host­ed by the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tion of T&T (NAAATT) and was the first of four to be con­duct­ed, ex­pos­ing par­tic­i­pants to the more prac­ti­cal el­e­ments of coach­ing.

It al­lowed the as­sess­ment team of IAAF-cer­ti­fied Lec­tur­ers – Ian Carter, Na­dine Hamid and Dex­ter Voisin – to ob­serve the abil­i­ty of the par­tic­i­pants to ap­ply the the­o­ry in a prac­ti­cal set­ting.

Dur­ing Sat­ur­day’s prac­ti­cal ses­sion, the young coach­es were ex­posed to var­i­ous drills and ex­er­cis­es de­signed to de­vel­op and im­prove ath­lete’s per­for­mance. Al­though fa­mil­iar with some of the ex­er­cis­es and drills giv­en their own ath­let­ics ca­reer, the as­pir­ing coach­es were now be­ing re­quired to demon­strate and to in­ter­pret ath­letes’ re­sponse from a coach­ing per­spec­tive.

Cal­len­der was one of them, show­ing his ex­per­tise. He is a mem­ber of the men’s 4x100m re­lay team that re­ceived gold medals, up­grad­ed from sil­ver, for its per­for­mance at the 2008 Bei­jing Olympics at a Re­al­lo­ca­tion Cer­e­mo­ny, ear­li­er this year.

At the end of the four planned ses­sions, as­sess­ment re­ports will be sub­mit­ted to World Ath­let­ics for com­ple­tion cer­tifi­cates to be is­sued which the NAAATT will be look­ing for­ward to wel­com­ing the new coach­es up­on their grad­u­a­tion.


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