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KINGSTON, Jamaica, June 6, 2015 - Following on the certification
of twelve coaches two weeks ago in Montego Bay, forty-six
additional coaches successfully completed the Jamaica Volleyball
Association (JaVA) Level One Coaching Course held at Mico
University College in Kingston from May 26-29.
Augusto Sabbatini, the International Coach who visited JaVA
courtesy of NORCECA Confederation in collaboration with regional
volleyball authorities CAZOVA, and Jamaica's FIVB International
Level Two Coach Steve Davis, were again the course instructors.
The course was conducted in two daily separate cohorts to
facilitate the candidates.
During the Graduation Ceremony, held at Mico on June 5, Major
Warrenton Dixon, JaVA Development Manager, notified the coaches
that their certification was not an end in itself but a first
step in partnering with the Association to achieve its strategic
goal of transforming Jamaica's volleyball players into
world-class players.
"We are under no illusion that we are going to achieve this
objective overnight but it is important that you accept your
role as partners in the effort and that you believe in the
goal," Dixon explained to the coaches.
Davis, who is also the National Head Coach for the male teams,
highlighted the importance of having a unified coaching
understanding across Jamaica.
"It is important that we welcome ideas about how to transform
our game technically and tactically from the international
volleyball community but in the end if we do not adapt a single
system of play for ourselves we will be counter-productive in
our efforts," Davis counseled. "We have to develop and unite
around one volleyball philosophy; that is one of the primary
objectives of this series of courses."
The JaVA President, Rudolph Speid, informed that coaches of a
multiplicity of activities JaVA has been and will be imminently
doing to develop and raise the profile of volleyball. He stated
that Jamaica is a global brand and that is was essential that
whatever is associated with the country's name must be of a
standard complimentary to the brand.
"We have to accept the challenge to professionalize, popularize
and commercialize volleyball in Jamaica and thereby raise the
profile of volleyball to being a major sport in Jamaica," Speid
exhorted the coaches.
Speid also informed the graduates that JaVA is working on a plan
to certify five hundred (500) JaVA Level I coaches, an effort
that would be spearheaded by Steve Davis. From there, the
Association will be soliciting NORCECA and the FIVB to
facilitate hosting of International Level I and Level II courses
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