Earlier start for coach

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33964, 3 October 1975, Page 20

Earlier start for coach

(N.Z. Press Association!

WELLINGTON. New Zealand’s new national tennis coach, Mr Vic Edwards, seems likely to start his five-week coaching stint in Wellington at Labour Day week-end. Mr Edwards, who returned home to Sydney yesterday after lengthy discussion with New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association representatives, said he hoped to bring forward his starting date from early November to Labour Day week-end, which starts on October 25.

The programme will start with a week-end of coaching with the national boys and girls development squads in Wellington. After this he will make two or three-day visits to Whangarei, Auckland, North Shore, . Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Hawke’s Bay, Wanganui, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch and Dunedin. The principal of the largest tennis school in Australia—catering for 400 students a week—he is the national coordinator of a coaching scheme boosted by a grant of $12,500 by the Ministry of Recreation and Sport. He will be coming back to New Zealand in a few weeks time with one of his senior school coaches.

Cycling.—An Australian Oljmpic road cycling representative, R. Young, and a New Zealand Olympic squad will ride in the twenty-fifth amateur road cycling race around Mount Egmont on October 11. Included in the squad are the top riders, Brent Pascoe. Roger Leaf, Jamie Richards, Neil Lyster, Brent Cornish, Trevor Rice, Max Vertongen, and Mike Fablsh.