Nov. 5, 2010
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VILLANOVA, Pa.--Over the course of three days last week, the coaching staffs of the track & field and women's basketball teams hosted national team coaches from all over the world in an International Coaching Enrichment Certificate Program (ICECP) which is affiliated with the U.S. Olympic Committee and the University of Delaware. The mission of the ICECP is to provide national level coaches from other countries with a practical program orientated towards developing proficiency in all aspects of running a national level program.
Seminars at Villanova were hosted from Monday through Wednesday by men's and women's track & field head coaches Marcus O'Sullivan and Gina Procaccio and their respective staffs, along with women's basketball head coach Harry Perretta and the rest of his coaching staff.
Among the topics covered by the track & field coaches were the important elements and practical application of throwing, sprints and jumps, pole vaulting and distance running. The visiting coaches also had a session dedicated to leadership led by Villanova Director of Athletics Vince Nicastro.
The visiting basketball coaches joined the Wildcats to observe practice and other team training sessions, while also sharing ideas with the Villanova coaches on training and specific technical aspects of implementing a national level basketball program.
The ICECP provides the visiting coaches with a five-week program that not only includes training participants to develop athletes, but will provide the participants with the skills and competencies needed to train coaches in their home country.
One part of the five-week program consists of a participant serving an apprenticeship with either the coaching staff of a United States national team or a high level university coaching staff in his or her respective sports. It was this phase of the program that the Villanova coaches were participating in.
The apprenticeship includes having the visiting coaches attend practice and participate when appropriate, as well as meeting with the coaching staffs of the host school and learning more about sports role in higher education while having the opportunity to experience American culture.
The nature of the apprenticeship is designed so that the participant gets an in-depth sport specific experience that enables the coaches to develop their coaching skills, while also acquiring information that can be shared upon returning to their native country to grow the sport in the country.
The ICECP is funded through the International Olympic Committees Olympic Solidarity Fund and the United States Olympic Committee.
Among the three visiting track & field coaches were Peter Cuffy (Antigua and Barbuda), Boedi Darma (Indonesia) and Faisalabad Nasrullah (Pakistan). Below are short profiles of each coach.
Peter Cuffy
Peter is a national coach for Antigua and Barbuda, specializing in athletics/track & field. He is currently the national athletics head coach for Barbuda and is in the process of developing a grassroots program to attract youth to athletics in the country. Cuffy has served in his position as a national coach since 2001 and in 2004 received his coaching diploma from Semmel Weis University Institute of Coaching and Sport Sciences in Budapest, Hungary. He also received a Level I IAAF Certificate of Coaching from the IAAF Coaches Education System in 2002.
Boedi Darma
Boedi is involved with strength and conditioning for athletes in grassroots programs both in and out of school in Indonesia. He is the national head coach for athletics and specializes in throwing programs. He was previously the national coach for throwing from 1991-93 and was the West Jawa throwing coach in 1985-86. From an education standpoint, Darma has accumulated numerous certificates in a number of programs over the last several years. He obtained four of these degrees with the IAAF Development Centre in Jakarta. Darma received his PhD at Technical University in Darmstadt, Germany.
Faisalabad Nasrullah
Faisalabad is a national team coach from Pakistan who has also been an IAAF lecturer for Level I courses since 2007 and an instructor for national coaches since 2005. He has also been a coach for the national junior team since 2004. Previously, Nasrullah was the national team coach for the South Asian Games from 2000 to 2004. He has accumulated four coaching degrees, most recently receiving the International Lecturer for IAAF Level I courses at IAAF RDC in Jakarta, Indonesia. In 2004 he received a Level IV certificate at the IAAF/IOC and in 2003 earned his Master's degree at Iqra University in Karachi.
