Fourty eight swimmers and coaches have completed a high level FINA swimming coaches clinic that has been going on for five days at the La Grande Hotel at Makerere West in Kampala.
The FINA facilitated course was conducted by Senior FINA coaching instructor Richard Powers during the five days he imparted stroke techniques with emphasis on four competitive strokes that include freestyle, backstroke, breastroke, butterfly. He also taught physiology of training, individual medley training, coaching aids, mental training and ethnics for swimming coaches.
“It’s always refreshing to attend these swimming clinic’s it also helps we swimmers update on the sport cause their always new things that happen in the sport that we don’t know,” Conrad Gayra, a national swimmer who was attending the clinic said. “It helps us have a clear mind when going for championships and helps us alot in improving our swimming aspect.”
The Uganda Swimming Federation has a total of 49 swimming activities this year and the highlight of their hectic calendar is the CANA Zone III and IV swimming championships that will be hosted by Uganda in April. The championship has attracted a total of 15 nations so far.
Other major events for USF include the Africa Youth Championship in Gabarone, Botswana in May, the 20th Commonwealth games, in Glasgow, Scotland in July just to mention but a few.