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NSC Employs High Performance Directors For Sports.
Written By sportsweight.blogspot.com on Wednesday, November 20, 2013 | 6:17 AM
The National Sports Commission has taken adequate steps to improve Nigeria’s performance in elite sports and to ensure that the country becomes a sporting powerhouse in the world.
As part of this measure, the Honourable Minister and Chairman of the National Sports Commission, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, on Tuesday presented to the media the newly appointed National High Performance Director, Angie Taylor and a Performance Director for Athletics, Eric Campbell.
It was the first time in the history of Nigerian sports that a national high performance director and a performance director have been engaged to oversee the development of elite sports in the country.
A very excited Sports Minister, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi stated at the event that it was the need to be proactive and see Nigeria achieve podium level success in international competitions that propelled the Commission to employ the foreign experts to oversee the high performance system, which the Commission has put in place.
A high performance system is a science –based support system for elite athletes The only High Performance Centre in West Africa is being built in Abuja, Nigeria and the Minister stated that this would be completed in February 2014.
He explained that the process of engaging the foreign experts, both of whom are from the US, was very rigorous, as they had to scale very tedious recruitment exercise conducted by sports consultants Mackenzie. As National High Performance Director, Taylor is to oversee the development of elite athletes in five sports: Athletics, Boxing, Taekwondo, Weightlifting, and Wrestling. Performance Director for Athletics, Campbell would work with Taylor to develop a programme to ensure that achieves podium success in athletics.
“What we are doing here is history”, stated Abdullahi. “The disappointment of London 2102 was what led to the unanimous decision to start doing things differently. One key lesson was that at this time and age no country could hope to perform and achieve podium success at the global level without a robust high performance system that translates talent into excellence. In Taylor and Campbell, we have got the best possible hand s we can get.”
Both Taylor and Campbell said they were happy to be in Nigeria to help the country achieve its full potentials in sports. “ I am so excited by the opportunity to here today. With my experience I am confident that I can help Nigeria with the goal of achieving greater sporting success,” said Taylor.
Chief Solomon Ogba, President of Athletics Federation of Nigeria, commended the Minister for the appointment of the new technical experts.
“ For years, we are at AFN have called for quality hands with the right experience to help with our sports, I am happy that it is happening today with the appointment of these two technical experts. I commend the honourable Minister for his foresight and wisdom,” Ogba said.
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