Togolese tennis coach drills Botswana youth

Thato Kala | Wednesday December 11, 2013 15:23

 

Lawson jetted into the country this week to drill the players and run a Level One coaching course at St Josephs in Gaborone.

Botswana Table Tennis Association (BTTA) is preparing a team for the second edition of the Africa Games, which will be hosted in Gaborone. The team has four players - two boys and two girls. Botswana is required to field two junior players each in the male and female categories during the games, but the BTTA has asked to put four instead.

BTTA president, Thebe Selema believes the youngsters will benefit immensely from Lawson’s expertise. The Togolese is one of the most active course conductors for the ITTF Development Programme. “We are to field two boys and two girls but we have negotiated for four so we can develop players. We will also have two other players who are not Under-17 training under Kaka Lawson,” he said.

Lawson is a university lecturer in Togo. He was Togo’s chef de mission at the 2012 London Olympic Games.

Meanwhile, Selema said affiliates, who had passed a motion of no confidence against BTTA’s secretary general Brian Sitang, have made a U-turn. Sitang was the subject of much discussion

at the BTTA Annual General Meeting last weekend.

Affiliates resolved to pass a motion of no confidence, but have since changed their mind saying they have no replacement at the moment.

“They did pass a motion of no-confidence but later changed because they had not identified someone,” Selema said. The affiliates are likely to call a Special General Meeting once a replacement is identified.