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Rodion Davelaar wins SILVER

admin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:07:57 +0000

The Netherlands Antilles won their first medal in the CAC Games. Rodion Davelaar won the silver medal in the finals of the 50 meters breast stroke. He broke the Antillean record (29.04) with his new time of 28.82 seconds.

Ready for Youth Olympics

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:49:48 +0000

NAOC will participate with three sports disciplines in the first Youth Olympics (Singapore). These sports are Athletics, Sailing & Swimming.
The two swimmers who already qualified for the Youth Olympics are Perry Lindo and Karlene Theodora. They travelled to the Netherlands on Saturday 17th of July, to partake in a trainingscamp. From Amsterdam they will then travel together with the other athletes to Singapore on the 9th of August.
On the picture our two swimmers showing their Olympic credential together with NAOC Director Remco Tevreden.

NAOC Trainer conducts volleyball camp

admin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:45:47 +0000

For the past few months, Mr. Bridgewater has been visiting the island under the auspices of the NAOC to provide technical support in the development of volleyball.

In this regard, he has been assisting the UVC with the development of the younger athletes.

“Based on the feedback from the athletes, it was decided to invite Mr. Bridgewater to conduct the annual camp,” says Rhoda Arrindell, program coordinator.DSC04912 The 2009 camp was led by Mr. David Ross of the Yes I Can franchise in the US. “This year we figured we could get just as much, or even more, by using one of our own and someone the youngsters are already familiar with.”

The UVC 2010 camp will run from July 26 – 31, followed by a fundraising beach tournament Great Bay Beach on August 1. A total of 25 athletes are expected to participate in the camp.

During this latest visit, Bridgewater also met with the board of the St. Maarten Volleyball Association to assess SIMVA’s technical needs in its quest to revive the sport on-island.

Some of the priority areas that were identified in the meeting were the accreditation of coaches, involvement of younger players, and the start of the annual competition in September.DSC04910

The priority regarding this program is to build a Long-term Athletes Development Program.

This involves the young athletes going through a long term development process, and not just preparation for a tournament or annual competition.

Here the youth will learn the basic FUN-damentals and learn to love the game of volleyball.

Basically the outcome is to assist the accredited coaches in preparing and guiding the younger athletes into becoming role models for the other kids and eventually becoming future respectful members of the community.

The main purpose of a summer camp is to prepare these athletes in the following: team cohesion, team-building, communication skills, leadership, learning to learn, learning the basic movement in volleyball and rules, problem solving, self confidence, goal setting, technical / tactical skills just a few to mention.

Source: www.sxmislandtime.com, written by Rhoda Arrindell

First Golden Medal in ODESUR Games

admin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:31:29 +0000

Anne-Marie Pietsersz won the first Golden Medal for the Netherlands Antilles in the Trap shooting Competition. This took place earlier this week in Medellin (Colombia) during the South American Games (”ODESUR Games”).

There are totally 15 countries participating in this Olympic event.

Worldchampion Burgos will defend his title

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:56:38 +0000

Antillean Athlete Alfred Burgos (Curacao) will participate in the World Indoor Championships for Masters. This event will be held in Kampsloop (Canada) during the period 1-6 March 2010.
NAOC supported Burgos by covering the costs of his airticket. Burgos participated the last years in the different Masters Championships. His results were as following:

Picture: Aubrey Linzey (NAAU), Alfred Burgos & Remco Tevreden (NAOC)

Van Aanholt wins Laser 2009 Orange Bowl Youth Regatta

admin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:46:03 +0000

After four days of sailing 12 races, everyone was a winner at the 2009 Orange Bowl hosted by Coral Reef Yacht Club. The weather had cooperated with lots of sunshine and wind. Co-Chairs Wendy Kamilar and Pat Ficaro set out the many awards and Registrar Carol Ewing filled the huge silver Trophy Bowl with oranges. Everyone was ready for trophies and the Magnus Liljedahl Sportsmanship Award. The 722 sailors cheered as Coral Reef Yacht Club (CRYC) Commodore Mark Kamilar and US sailing Olympians James Barton, Magnus Liljedahl and current US Sailing AlphaGraphic members, Zach Railey and Anna Tunnicliffe.

The Laser class had 192 competitors. In Laser 4.7s, Just Van Aanholt from Curacao was the winner with Germany’s Maximillian Stein in 2nd and Juanky Perdome from Puerto Rico in 3rd. The Laser Radial Class was won by St. Petersburg’s Mateo Vargas with a 5 point lead over Stefano Mazzaferro from Brasil and Michigan’s Mitchell Kiss in 3rd. The top girls in Laser Radial’s were Lauderdale Yacht Club’s Erika Reineke, Arielle deLisser from CRYC and Marissa Lihan of Lauderdale Yacht Club. John Wallace from St. Petersburg Yacht Club won the Laser Full-Rig Class with Lauderdale’s Andrew Fox in 2nd and Canada’s Ricardo Montemajor representing the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club in 3rd.

Source: sail-world.com
Picture: John Payne

NAOC sends Shaheen Elhage to international course

ruella — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:20:21 +0000

Through the Pan American Sports Organization (PASO) in Mexico, NAOC gets the opportunity to select coaches together with our member sport federations, to participate in international courses.

These sport technical courses are of a high international level, and consist out of about 56 hours of education. There are 42 participating countries of the Pan American Region.

Mr. Shaheen Elhage is selected to participate in the international Shooting course, which is taking place in Mexico (22-28 November).

It is the intention of NAOC to upgrade the respective sport with this. The costs of the course are being covered by Olympic Solidarity.

Picture: Shaheen Elhage

NAOC sends Snijders & Martijn to international course

ruella — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:50:55 +0000

Through the Pan American Sports Organization (PASO) in Mexico, NAOC gets the opportunity to select coaches together with our member sport federations, to participate in international courses. These sport technical courses are of a high international level, and consist out of about 56 hours of education. There are 42 participating countries of the Pan American Region.

Mr. Gilbert Snijders is selected to participate in the international Bowling course, which is taking place in Mexico (25-31 October). Additionally Mr. Nazario Martijn is selected to participate in the Swimming course in Mexico, also in the period 25-31 October. It is the intention of NAOC to upgrade the respective sport with this. The costs of the course are being covered by Olympic Solidarity.

Picture: Nazario Martijn and Gilbert Snijders

NAOC and Table tennis federation organize course for coaches

ruella — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:21:44 +0000

A group of 20 technicians representing all five Antillean islands started an intensive course of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). This course will provide them a Level 1 coaching diploma.

This course started on last Monday and will end Friday 23rd of October 2009.

The total of expenses of USD $10,000 are covered by Olympic Solidarity. The course instructor is Mr. Leandro Olvech from Germany.

Participation of the technicians will contribute to expand their knowledge, and that again will elevate the level of Table Tennis on our Islands. The ultimate goal is to produce more athletes to compete on an International level.

NAOC sends Etienne Siliee to international course

ruella — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:56:02 +0000

Through the Pan American Sports Organization (PASO) in Mexico, NAOC gets the opportunity to select coaches together with our member sport federations, to participate in international courses.
These sport technical courses are of a high international level, and consist out of about 56 hours of education. There are 42 participating countries of the Pan American Region.

Mr. Etienne Siliee is selected to participate in the international Men’s Soccer course, which is taking place in Mexico (18-24 October)

It is the intention of NAOC to upgrade the respective sport with this. The costs of the course are being covered by Olympic Solidarity.

Picture: Etienne Siliee and NAOC Director Remco Tevreden