Sequel to his desire in growing AthIetics talents in Gombe State, Chairman of Gombe State Athletics Association (GAA) Hon. Ahmed Shuaibu Gara Gombe has planned a 3-day intensive training capacity building WorkShop for 65 Secondary Schools Games Masters in Gombe State.
The workshop which is in preparation for the soon coming inter-Secondary School AthIetics Championships will hole on July 1st-3rd at Gombe State University Hall.
The Training and Capacity building workshop will also prepare aside school Games Masters, the Main Organing Committee and sub-committees to achieve total and effective results during the AthIetics competition.
A press statement signed by the technical director to the MOC Chairman, Simon Ayuba, stated that high caliber resource persons have been engaged to update attendees in handling modern AthIetics events, rules, equipment, terminologies and general guidelines including the media during competitions.
The 3-day training and capacity building workshop is in collaboration with Green White Green (GWG) Center limited with the over-all-motive of catching AthIetics talents while they are young.
The GAA Chairman Hon. Gara Gombe said in a separate interview that the programme was initiated to mitigate and grow AthIetics talents in Gombe and the Northeastern states in general.
“It’s disheartening that the AthIetics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) selected 40 AthIetes to represent the country in Douala, Cameroon and only 2% of AthIetes from the North made the team”.
“This trend must stop because it is not good, talents capable of representing Nigeria in Competitions abroad must be harvested all over Nigeria and we have taken the challenge, the North used to have abundant talents in the past, today, it’s either Delta, Edo, Lagos or Ondo States AthIetes that are dominant in Team Nigeria for the Paris Olympic Games”. Gombe fumed
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