Ousley tops GOA sports administrators’ course

Eulanie Ousley of the Berbice Campus of the University of Guyana, was voted the best graduating student at the ninth annual Sports Administrators Course organized by the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) which was held from November 23-25 for the first time in Berbice.

The runner-up was Karl Vanier of the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) Corentyne District.

Nineteen sports administrators mainly from Berbice were successful and were rewarded with International Olympic Committee (IOC) certificates at the graduation held at the GTU Hall in New Amsterdam.

The successful participants were drawn from the GTU Sports districts of West Berbice, New Amsterdam and Corentyne, the Berbice Cricket Board, the Berbice Football Association, the University of Guyana Berbice campus and GOA affiliates of athletics, basketball, cycling and canoeing.

This is the first time that the GOA moved this course out of Georgetown and it was deemed highly successful by course directors Claude Blackmore and Garfield Wiltshire.

Colleen Liddell, a former graduate of the programme served as the coordinator.

The participants were exposed to lectures on the Olympic Movement; Olympic Solidarity and its programmes; Volunteerism, Drugs testing; Sports and the Law; Values and ethics in Sports Government and the relationship with sports associations; and Budgeting and Money management.

The lecturers included Justice Roxanne George; President of the GOA K. A. Juman-Yassin; GOA general secretary, Ivor O’Brien; National Sports Commission; Chairman; Conrad Plummer, and leading sports officials Hector Edwards; Barrington Brown; Lennox Shuffler and Karen Pilgrim.