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SWEPT In Limbo
Published: Tuesday | August 28, 2012 0 Comments
SWEPT Track Club's head coach and founder, Okeile Stewart (left), and athlete Sheldon Mitchell. - Rudolph Brown/Photographer
André Lowe, Senior Staff Reporter
Head coach, founder takes up six-month job in Daegu
Club lacks source of finance
SWEPT Track Club's head coach and founder, Okeile Stewart, has dismissed rumours that the fledgling club is on the verge of being disbanded.
In fact, he has sought to assure that the development of the club's athletes remains in good hands after leaving the island for Asia.
Stewart - a key figure in the creation of the club in 2007 - who now oversees the careers of promising young sprinters Dexter Lee, Sheldon Mitchell and experienced campaigners Ainsley Waugh, Oral Thompson and Emmanuel Callender, left the island on Saturday to take up a six-month coaching opportunity in South Korea.
"The reality is that I have taken up a temporary six-month opportunity to work in Asia and I'll be back in the country in February next year," Stewart confirmed recently.
"I am heading back into Daegu, South Korea and I will be working with the athletes there trying to develop technique and skill and impart to them some of the Jamaican culture in terms of track and field."
Opportunity
A former masseuse, Stewart, who has worked with established coaches such as Stephen Francis, Glen Mills and Fitz Coleman, will be working with young sprinters in Daegu and will also have the opportunity to bring two of his charges along with him.
Read more: http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/2...s/sports1.html
Published: Tuesday | August 28, 2012 0 Comments
SWEPT Track Club's head coach and founder, Okeile Stewart (left), and athlete Sheldon Mitchell. - Rudolph Brown/Photographer
André Lowe, Senior Staff Reporter
Head coach, founder takes up six-month job in Daegu
Club lacks source of finance
SWEPT Track Club's head coach and founder, Okeile Stewart, has dismissed rumours that the fledgling club is on the verge of being disbanded.
In fact, he has sought to assure that the development of the club's athletes remains in good hands after leaving the island for Asia.
Stewart - a key figure in the creation of the club in 2007 - who now oversees the careers of promising young sprinters Dexter Lee, Sheldon Mitchell and experienced campaigners Ainsley Waugh, Oral Thompson and Emmanuel Callender, left the island on Saturday to take up a six-month coaching opportunity in South Korea.
"The reality is that I have taken up a temporary six-month opportunity to work in Asia and I'll be back in the country in February next year," Stewart confirmed recently.
"I am heading back into Daegu, South Korea and I will be working with the athletes there trying to develop technique and skill and impart to them some of the Jamaican culture in terms of track and field."
Opportunity
A former masseuse, Stewart, who has worked with established coaches such as Stephen Francis, Glen Mills and Fitz Coleman, will be working with young sprinters in Daegu and will also have the opportunity to bring two of his charges along with him.
Read more: http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/2...s/sports1.html
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