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Wrestling Conducts Sports Psychology Webinar Series on Preparing an Athlete for Competition

Friday, March 5, 2021 - 15:40 By United World Wrestling Press

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CORSIER-SUR-VEVEY, Switzerland (March 5) -- United World Wrestling conducted a series of webinars Feb. 27 on Sports Psychology-Preparing an Athlete for Competition.  

Santoro GERARD (FRA), Dr. Judy GOSS (CAN), Mtra. Magaly ZERON AVILA (MEX) and Dr. Nermin RAFIQ MOHAMED (EGY) were presenters for the webinars. 

The webinars were conducted in four languages: French, Spanish, English, and Arabic.  Over 500 people participated in the four webinars, which was the largest one-day total for webinar attendance. A Russian webinar was originally scheduled but was unable to be conducted due to technical difficulties and will be rescheduled to a later date. 

The participants will be receiving a certificate for attending the webinar, which can be used for continuing education credits.
 

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UWW Educators Attend Special NCDA Cohort at NSSU

Friday, May 1, 2026 - 09:09 By United World Wrestling Press

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TOKYO (April 24) -- United World Wrestling's Development Officer Vicent AKA and Education Manager Zach ERRETT recently completed Cohort 9 for the National Coach Developer Academy [NCDA] at the Nippon Sport Science University in Tokyo, Japan.

The NCDA is programme that runs over seven months and includes two sessions at Nippon Sports Science University working with experts in coaching development. It is designed to help participants learn strategies for how to develop and train coaches [train the trainer].

NSSU conducts the programme, that helps train coach developers for different sports and organizations, in partnership with International Council for Coaching Excellence [ICCE] which was created in 1997.

DevelopmentUWW Educators Vincent AKA, left, and Zach ERRETT.

Both Aka and Errett participated with 13 other participants from around the world and different sports. During the programme, both improved their facilitation skills, learned new strategies for training and developing coaches, and designed and implemented a growth development project.

"The training was very interesting and allowed us to grow as a person and ideas for how to organize our system. We were able to learn something we would directly use and to learn from experts in the field," Aka said.

Errett said that the education he received at the NCDA will help them train coaches and educators better in wrestling.

"We had an opportunity to learn from experts in the field of coach development and learn from colleagues around the world," Errett said. "We can use this information to help better train coaches and educators in the future."

Cohort 10, the next edition of the programme, will be attended by UWW Educator Oyan NAZARIANI.

“I am honored to be selected for the NCDA programme," Nazariani said. "At this stage of my career, my focus is on developing structured and sustainable coach education systems. I am particularly excited to deepen my knowledge as a coach developer, strengthen the programme we plan to implement in Azerbaijan, and apply advanced methodologies both in national coaching courses and in international courses I conduct as a UWW Educator across different countries."