?The Sports Training and Development Section, which is under the Bahrain Olympic Committee (BOC), started holding the final exams of Level 4 for the National Coaching Programme last Monday.
The exams, which continue until April 29, involves five Bahraini coaches who passed all three levels of this programme and spent almost two years of studies.
The five coaches represent five different sports and they are Mohammed Salman (volleyball), Mohammed Bakhsh (taekwondo), Hisham Abduljalil (football), Salah Hassan (shooting) and Salman Ramadan (basketball).
These coaches presented 12 essays in total which consist of practical application and field visits. They were also assigned to present the annual plan to be discussed and approved by a team of academic supervisors, headed by Conrad Milne, the general supervisor of the programme.
The programme is also being conducted by Sports Training and Development Section head Nabeel Taha, in addition to Dr Hussain Jaffer and Mahmood Yateem.
Articles presented for this level include planning, sports psychology, power and physical preparation, environment and nutrition, sports Leadership, power systems, treatment and resuming activity and field visits.
The National Coaching Programme, which previously won the Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Creative Sports Award as best sports institution in 2011, is regarded one of the finest technical programmes that aims to prepare and develop coaches in the field of sports.