Swimming: SLASU to conduct Level 2 coaching programme

Sri Lanka Aquatic Sports Union (SLASU) has decided to conduct a recognised course for aquatic sports coaches, who would be offered a SLASU recognised Level II coaching certificate for all swimming coaches islandwide. 

To this purview, SLASU is in line to get the approval of the Ministry of Sports seeking the full corporation. 

"There are three or four coaching associations. In order to bring everybody under one qualification we want to hold a Level I course. What we want to do is to make coaches more professional," said the President of SLASU, Nethru Nanayakkara. 

"It is  not compulsory but every coach who needs a SLASU recognised coaching certificate can follow our course," Nanayakkara pointed out. 

In addition SLASU will divide the country's planning areas into four aquatic sports zones when conducting future programmes and events. 

SLASU expects to conduct tournaments to harness the extraordinary talent from the outstation, as the most of the top class swimmers in the country are produced only from Colombo in general.  

Through this system, each zone will consist of two or three provinces and there will be separate regional associations under the country's aquatic sports controlling body, SLASU.

Through this zonal associations, the aquatic sports controlling body will conduct Inter-Zonal Meets apart from the Internal Zone Tournaments in the near future to change the whole shape of aquatic sports across the island.