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Free Coaching
Eastern Suburbs believes that our athletes benefit from professional coaching.
The benefits are to be found in improved
individual competencies and increased satisfaction. Inevitably, this will
leads to better performances for those athletes who compete at Zone,
Regional and State Championships. Coaching at E.S. Marks athletics field, Anzac Parade, Kensington The Centre
is pleased to be able to offer free coaching by professional
coaches after school on Tuesdays and Thursday afternoons through
the generosity our sponsors. Our Head Coach is Mal Baker, a Level 4 coach
with many years of experience coaching Little Athletes, including the
NSW State Team. The coaching team under his
leadership saw 40pc of all Eastern Suburbs athletes who made it
through to 2008 Regional Carnival, go on to qualify for the State
Carnival. In 2005, for the first time, we had two
of our athletes appointed to the 26 member NSW State team to
the Nationals. Given there are 200 Centres vying for State team
representation, we are proud of our athletes’ and coaches’ achievements. We are offering coaching for
U9s and above in the disciplines of sprints/hurdles, distance running,
throws and jumps. Coaching begins before our first night of
competition, on Tuesday,
September 23, and then Thursday, September 25, at
4pm at ES Marks Field, ANZAC
Parade, and each Tuesday and Thursday thereafter. Coaching on Friday nights is limited to teaching the basics of each event to entire age groups, otherwise the evening stretches out, leading to complaints. Eastern Suburbs Little Athletics is slowly building up a coaching team made up group of ex-ESLAC
athletes. The Club requires that they train themselves to a minium Level 1 certificate, issued by the Australian Track & Field Coaches
Association. The program strategy is intended to teach children that they are rewarded for working towards a qualification and adopting a position of responsibiity and leadership in society.
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