40 handball coaches graduate

course, which ended on Sunday, was conducted by Bernard Muzanenhamo of the ZHF and was attended by 48 male and female PE students at BTTC.
Munashe Banda, who is also a national coach, was the course’s director.
Phineas Zinhiva, the director of sports at BTTC, said the 48 participants sat for an examination at the end of the course and they all passed with Tafadzwa Chando and Alfred Mahesi passing with flying colours.
“All the participants are Physical Education students and taking part in this Level One coaching course, which is for beginners, was part of their syllabus at this college.
“In fact, our syllabus for Physical Education students is that before they graduate, they must offer six satisfactory proficiency in different sporting disciplines so the onus is on the students to choose what to do and this time they chose handball.
“And for the past three days since Friday, they’ve been looking at the coaching side of handball both theory and practical, but the course was pregnant with a lot of practical things.
“We believe this helps the students a lot because we need more of practicing students than people who are theoretical. Basically the instructor Muzanenhamo was very helpful and to that end we believe they (the students) can take handball to great heights,” Zinhiva said.
The three-day Level One coaching course was the first to be held at a tertiary institution in this country. At the completion of the coaching course, all the 48 participants, including one second-year student, received their Level One coaching certificates from the ZHF president Amon Madzvamuse and the former president of the federation, Aggrippa Sora, who was the guest of honour at Sunday’s presentation function at BTTC.
Madzvamuse said they decided to hold this Level One coaching course for beginners as part of their on-going development programme which is aimed at empowering coaches at grassroots level.
“This was a Level One coaching course for beginners and this time we made a deliberate move or attempt to take it to one of the country’s tertiary institutions, the BTTC.
“We did this because handball in this country is mainly played at school level and we would like these students to be actively involved in coaching the sport once they graduate from BTTC.
“In fact, they are all Physical Education students who will be deployed to different schools across Zimbabwe and we would like them to take handball to these schools.
“I think this will go a long way in developing handball at grassroots level because we want to have a strong junior development programme which will involve these schoolteachers,” Madzvamuse said.
Speaking at the same presentation function at BTTC, the college’s principal, Patrick Chinhoro, urged the participants to impart the knowledge that they gained during this course to schoolchildren and the people around their respective communities in Zimbabwe.
“The three-day course you undertook is a worthwhile investment you have done. You could have used that money for something else, but you decided to use it for a worthy cause.
“You are building a firm foundation for your careers in sport and by training in new areas like handball, you are widening the horizon of sport.
“Show the world that games that were meant for the elite can also be played even deep down in areas or places like Chiendambuya,” Chinhoro told the participants.
The BTTC principal also said more courses of this nature should be done “not for Physical Education and sports students only, but also to all going into the (teaching) field”.
“It will make you more marketable ahead of graduates from other institutions.
“So, I would like to urge you all to go and use the special skills you acquired here to help the innocent ones, who knows, we can build national team players from this course,” Chinhoro said.
The guest of honour, Sora, said it was pleasing to note that more players, including schoolteachers, were now getting more involved in the running of handball in this country.
Sora also urged the participants to take coaching handball seriously and asked them to help the ZHF in identifying and nurturing talent at grassroots level.
“If you are not aware, handball is the second fastest sport in the world after ice hockey. It’s a very exciting game so go out there and spread the sport of handball to all the four corners of this country,” Sora told the participants.

List of participants who took part in the ZHF Level One coaching course at BTTC
Lea Mashambanhaka, Placidia Goshomi, Louisa Magocha, Tendai Chimbwanda, Tinashe Machaya, Alice Nyatsanga, Mabasa Shumba, Prince Ndaza, Edmore Kadozora, Milton Tarubinga, Tariro Chiware, Blessing Kazingizi, Patience Chipata, Sophia Takura, Patricia Chayikosa, Memory Rutavi, Enia Muchiriwesi, Gracious Kuzhangaira, Chengetai Samva, Tafadzwa Chando, Spencer Nyamunda, Lungile Mbanjwa, Mercy Mberikwazvo, Mercy Musumhi, Notalisa Mlambo, Agnes Chiroodza, Opportunity Bakasa, Leona Kaseke, Olga Tsomondo, Medelyn Moyo, Enie Terera, Regina Matava, Alfred Mahesi, Tonderai Mazivisa, Michael Magondo, Velaphi Ndhlalambi, Phillimon Atanaziyo, Memory Saunyama, Cashel Mutumburwa, Phillip Hwinjisi, Bernard Shereni, Theresa Matemera, Kudzai Muzondidya, Bianca Zvashura, Zorodzai Charedzera.