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Squash Federation organizes referee course in Lagos<\/span><\/p>\n Zainab Tanimu \u2013 Kaduna, NIGERIA<\/span><\/p>\n After successfully staging a two-day coaching course in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, the Nigeria Squash Federation (NSF) is organizing another two-day National Referees\u2019 Certification Course in Lagos on March 26 to 27<\/span> at the Teslim Balogun Stadium.<\/span><\/p>\n The referees\u2019 certification course is part of the federation\u2019s efforts at developing the sport at grassroots level and the exercise will have World Squash Federation (WSF)-certified referee \u2013 Lucky Mlilo of Zimbabwe as resource person.<\/span><\/p>\n According to the President of NSF, Boye Oyerinde, the training and retraining of coaches and officiating officials is a key factor, and pre-requisite towards the development of squash, especially at the grassroots development.<\/span><\/p>\n For Oyerinde, the training of officiating officials would help to acquaint them with the latest on the sport, while stating that training of officials would be a continuous exercise, and he emphasized that more attention is being focused on grassroots development.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt is very important for our referees to update their knowledge and we have decided to do this with a world class certified official who will be on ground for two days to pass the knowledge to our officiating officials. Just like I stated during the coaching course in Ilorin, our efforts to improve the fortune of the sport will be an all-round as we are helping the players and coaches, the officials will not be left behind because they will also help us as well as partners in progress,\u201d Oyerinde said.<\/span><\/p>\n He added that federation intends to work with schools, and also taking into account the available squash facilities in the country to train players that have been categorized into U-13, U-16, U19 and senior in both male and female categories.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Squash Federation organizes referee course in Lagos Zainab Tanimu \u2013 Kaduna, NIGERIA After successfully staging a two-day coaching course in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, the Nigeria Squash Federation (NSF) is organizing another two-day National Referees\u2019 Certification Course in Lagos on March 26 to 27 at the Teslim Balogun Stadium. The referees\u2019 certification course is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n
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