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Posted: Sunday 22 February, 2015 at 2:31 PM

SKNAAA concerned with athlete dropouts

By: Loshaun Dixon, SKNVibes.com

    BASSETERRE, St. Kitts - WE have often seen promising track and field athletes in St. Kitts and Nevis quit the sport after they had completed high school, and that situation has caused some concerns in the St. Kitts-Nevis Amateur Athletic Association (SKNAAA) which is seeking a solution to this trend.

     

    Speaking with SKNVibes, Public Relations Officer of the SKNAAA Evris Huggins indicated that that situation has been a concern for some time.

    “To be quite honest, it is a concern of the SKNAAA and we see that trend happening throughout the region.”

    He declared that one of the efforts the SKNAAA has embarked on to address the issue is by empowering the clubs.

    “I think the most important thing from a SKNAAA standpoint is one we try as much as possible to empower our clubs that makes up the SKNAAA. We try to empower them with as much literature as possible and to whatever affiliation the SKNAAA have with any known school in which the athletes have participated in the past. We have tried as best as possible to maintain those contact information.

    “We try to empower and enforce the club systems to utilise these tools to the best of their ability, because from the SKNAAA’s perspective we are not satisfied that there is a smooth transition from the junior programme into the senior or U-23 programme.”

    Huggins indicated that the Association is also seeking to ensure that the athletes could be placed in the right settings to earn scholarships for schools which could assist in the continuity of their ability. 

    “We are trying as best as possible to see how best we can fill those gaps and ensure our athletes are exposed to the right type of settings and achieve certain performances where schools in the United States or anywhere in North America and Europe can be able to scoop them and give them an academic foundation, expose them to a training setting where there are people of their kind to be able to give them the right type of competition.

    “I know from the coaching commission perspective that they are proposing to work closely with the parents of the now CARIFTA Development Squad to get them into the SAT mindset, because more and more we are seeing request from a number of schools which may have seen the way some of our athletes perform at the Challenge Series.”

    He also indicated that they are experimenting with a number of initiatives to try and improve the situation

    “We are trying to do a number of things but, to say we have a solution to the problem, I don’t think we have such a problem as yet.”
     
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