Table Tennis players to receive coaching badges
L-R: National players Mutabazi, Koboyi and Wamusu doing a group assignment during the Level 1 coaching course at Kololo SS yesterday. PHOTO BY SANDE BASHAIJA
KAMPALA- Over 10 national players will today graduate as coaches following completion of a five-day course at Kololo Secondary School.
National team star Aminah Kinobe, Aminah Namaganda, Mercy Nabusano and Regina Nakibule are some of the female players that are due to receive their coaching badges.
Some of the male players bracing for the coaching mantle include; Trinity Oudong, Dan Mutabazi, Edward Koboyi, Ivan Wamusu and Solomon Otti.
International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) technical expert, Ahmed Dawlatly, has trained the players at the course funded by the Uganda Olympic Committee (UOC).
Egyptian Dawlatly has, however, warned that all course participants must pass examinations due today before they can be certified as Level 1 coaches.
“I rarely have many failures in my classes so I hope it won’t be any different in Uganda,” Dawlatly, who has conducted similar courses in several other African countries, told Daily Monitor. “I am also calling on whoever passes to put whatever I have taught them here to improve the game in Uganda.”
Uganda Table Tennis Association (UTTA) president, Robert Jjagwe, said the new coaches will be deployed in schools countrywide.
