Snell Will Learn How To Coach

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31206, 2 November 1966, Page 19

Snell Will Learn How To Coach

(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON. The former world mile record-holder, P. G. Snell, is to attend an athletic coaching school as a pupil.

Snell will be one of about 40 pupils at a coaches’ course being organised by the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association at Trentham. The athletic coaches course will be run in conjunction with courses for swimming, gymnastics and possibly weigiht-lifting. Although Snell will be attending the course as a pupil, he will lose his pupil status temporarily during the course to lecture on middle distance events. It will be the first time that Snell has attended the amateur coaches course. About 300 coaches, pupils and young athletes will participate in the combined coaching school, to run from December 27 to January 6. Gymnastic judges and coaches and swimming coaches will undergo extensive courses. In addition to these activities, 30 young athletes from all parts of New Zealand will attend a coaching clinic, sponsored by the Amateur Athletic Coaches’ Association. The 30 athletes will be named on November 18 by the national selectors (Messrs

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C. Thompson and J. Borland). The coaches’ association first staged the young athletes clinic last year, when it was directed by the chief Russian coach, Mr G. Korobkov. This year’s clinic will be directed by Mr S. Johnson (Auckland).