The Sunday News
Patrick Mushunje, Sports Reporter
THE Matabeleland North Athletics coach, Tawanda Mutero, has called upon schools to form athletics clubs as a way of addressing the constant poor showing by the province in the National Association of Secondary Heads (Nash) athletics championships.
Speaking after the end of the National Athletics Association of Zimbabwe (Naaz) inter-provincial championships, which were held in Bulawayo early May, Mutero said athletics clubs will help nurture talent.
“I am calling upon schools in Matabeleland North to open up athletics clubs both at primary and secondary level, this development will help raise the athletics standards of the province,” he said.
One of their athletes Nqobizitha Mpofu, who won gold in the senior men long jump, was full of praise of his coach’s view.
“The idea is brilliant because it will help athletes to be competitive throughout the year. These clubs are what we lack as a province, hence I think if we are to form them, our province will start to improve in the national competitions,” he said.
Mutero guided Mat North to fourth position at the Naaz championships, the same position that they took last year and a number of athletes from the province were selected to represent Zimbabwe at the Youth Olympics in Argentina in August.
