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Volleyball coaching clinic produces 12 coaches

BOTESSA volleyball coaches PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE
BOTESSA volleyball coaches PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE

The Botswana Tertiary Student Sport Association (BOTESSA)’s first ever volleyball coaching clinic has turned out to be a success story as all coaches managed to complete the programme.

In its first edition, BOTESSA produced a cohort of 12 graduates from the coaching clinic. For the first time in its programme, BOTESSA switched focus from football and athletics and dived into the volleyball fraternity by equipping aspiring coaches with the necessary skills and knowledge for their coaching career. The coaching clinic sessions took a period of five days at the Gaborone coaching clinic where all the 12 graduates went through the process put in place at the coaching clinic.

In an interview with Sport Monitor, Shadreck Modiakgotla stated that the move by BOTESSA to have the coaching clinic was solely to curate volleyball coaches in the local institutions to be recognised as coaches.

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