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Guyana’s Shavin Greene is the ITTF Expert as GTTA host ITTF level One Course
The Guyana Table Tennis Association in collaboration and under the auspices of the International Table Tennis federation will be hosting an ITTF level one coaches certification programme from December 8 to 14.
Shavin Greene
The programme will be conducted by recently certified ITTF level one Course Conductor Guyanese Mr. Shavin Greene.
Greene, who is also an International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) level one coach, General Secretary of the Linden Table Tennis Committee and teacher at the McKenzie High School, secured his credentials as an ITTF level one course coordinator in November of 2017, when he successfully passed the ITTF Course Coordinators course held in Guyana and conducted by ITTF Continental Development Manager Mr. Ramon Ortega Montes.
He is now certified to conduct ITTF level one programmes internationally. Coach Linden Johnson and Dwain Dick are coaches who also took the ITTF course coordinators course under Mr. Ortega Montes and were certified to conduct certification programmes for coaches at the national level under the guidance and approval of the GTTA.
The programme is self-funded by the Guyana Table Tennis Association and supported by the ITTF and forms a key pillar in the GTTA’s development thrust, aimed at positioning the association to establish a coach certification pathway and structure, Developing a nucleus of coaches with the right attributes and attitudes and technical capacities to develop players with the correct technical and tactical orientation. It also is aimed to aid the GTTA’s Decentralization of the sport and institutional strengthening.
The GTTA has targeted teachers from schools under the National Table Tennis for Schools programme and who would have completed the GTTA – ITTF 12 hour programme conducted by Mr. Linden Johnson in addition to club coaches community personnel.
Persons outside of this group interested in participating in the programme can make contact with Mr. Linden Johnson Hon. General Secretary GTTA on telephone numbers 621-7630 or Mr. Shavin Greene ITTF Course Coordinator on telephone number 682-8835.
Participants are expected to complete thirty (30) participatory hours in addition to doing a presentation on a particular subject area covered in order to receive certification; therefore attendance at sessions will be mandatory.
Shavin Greene will be supervised by newly appointed ITTF Pan American Development Manager Mr. Carlos Esnard.
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