Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Two more coaches join as Clinic Coaches

Clinic organizers have today signed up two more coaches for Diego's High Performance Clinic. They are Riley Dean from New Zealand and Jefri Ismail from Singapore.

Jefri Ismail is The National Coach of Singapore in charge of the National Optimist A Squad. More information about Jefri will come shortly.

Riley Dean's sailing CV is as follows:

New Zealand Development team (optimist) Noumea
Head coach Kohimarama Auckland yacht club
New Zealand Worlds Team (optimist) Noumea
New Zealand North Americans Team (optimist) Curacao
Yachting New Zealand Regatta Race coach
New Zealand Optimist coach

Jefri Ismail sailing CV as follows:

Full time coach with Singapore Sailing (2005 - present)
Singapore Optimist Development Coach (2003 - 2005)
Singapore Optimist National Coach (2006 - present)

Coach for Singapore Team at:
2007 ASEAN Championships
2007 ITC Clinic France
2008 Asian Sailing Championships

Manager for Singapore Team at:
2006 South Americans
2007 South Americans
2007 Worlds
2008 North Americans
2008 Worlds

We are very happy to have signed up another two internationally renowned coaches, and we are certain that these two coaches will strengthen our existing coaching team.

We are still working to sign up one more coach for the clinic, bringing the total number of coaches to eight.