ARCHERY Guyana will stage an Olympic Solidarity Coaching Course from January 17, 2024 to Sunday January 21, 2024.

The five-day Olympic Solidarity Coaching Course will be held under the auspices of Olympic Solidarity with Archery Guyana’s Board of Directors commending the Executive Committee of the Guyana Olympic Association for the guidance and making this possible.

World renowned World Archery Coach Trainer, Ms. Ludys Carina Tejada, is a Dominican, who actually started archery as an athlete in 1978-2008, has been selected as the facilitator of this course.

She is the recipient of numerous awards and has medaled in a number of events.

She is now an Archery Coach who is also a member of the World Archery Development Committee from 2010 to date.

Currently, she is a Coach of Santo Domingo Archery school and Pedro Henriquez Ureña University, a position which she held since 2014.

The course will be attended by 20 participants, both male and female, who are all local archery coaches of various levels and work with various schools throughout the various regions.
Ms. Tejada has tailored a programme to include the basics of coaching juniors right up to the team tactics of senior level competition.

President of Archery Guyana, Mrs. Vidushi Persaud-McKinnon, in giving an update on planning of the event, expressed special thanks to President of the Guyana Olympic Committee, Mr. Godfrey Munroe, Mr. Garfield Wiltshire and Executive Committee members for the provision of an Olympic Solidarity grant, Director of Sport Mr. Steve Ninvalle and the National Sports Commission and the Unit of Allied Art, Ministry of Education.

Mrs. Vidushi Persaud-McKinnon stated that among the topics to be covered in the proposed Agenda are Code of Ethics/WADA, Introduction to what is Archery and what is coaching, the Beginners Award Programme, how to build an Archery session, preparatory movements/ stance and nocking among others.

The course will be conducted at the National Resource Centre, Woolford Avenue, Georgetown.

There will be theory and practical sessions twice per day beginning at 8:30 hours to 12:00 hours and then again from 13:00 hours to 16:30 hours.