International Coaches College was held for the first time in Europe. Therefore we have choosen Prague, Czech Republic where I can not only prepare it but also keep eye on it from my Development facilitating position and help to plan other clinics for the future.
Originally
we had 48 participants plus 3 instructors - Sharon Drysdale, Linda Wells and
John Tschida. After some changes and last moment cancellations we have ended up
with 40 attendants from 17 countries: Belgium, Croatia,
Czech Republic, Denmark, Great Britain, Germany, Greece,
Gurnsey, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Malta, The Netherlands, Slovenia,
Slovakia, Switzerland and Ukraine. Attendants were very receptive, gave
questions, communicate with instructors well. Instructors were excellent, gave a
lot of good informations, able to answer any questions, in general very much
appreciated by attendants. Original idea was to provide very top and deep
coaching information in attempt to lift up the level in coaching in Europe. Most
of the participants were national team coaches.
This idea was certainly inspired by great knowledge and abilities of all
three clinicians.
Czech
Softball Association as a local organizer did a good job, provided welcome
party, took care of local transportation and hotel arrangements. Slight problems
at the beggining especially with the hotel were corrected and rest went well.
Paricipants
have recieved Certificates, some of them were missing due to changes of names
and some of them were wrong written names. These following coaches need still
their certificates:
Unfortunately,
Sharon Drysdale could not continue to Malaysia due to her illness and had to
return home right after the clinic.
I
strongly recommend to continue this ICC Programme
Pavel
Prachar