Darryl Woods a CWB First timer and ECB Level 3 coach talks about his first experiences coaching in Africa.
We all turned up on day 3 with Great Expectations as five schools embarked on the Arua primary school playing fields, after supporting the local coaches through several drills including the encouragement with all the very important ABC messages, project leader Lee, whilst almost losing his voice, arranged five stations for competition time.
It was great to watch in the bowling competition almost every player bowling with a straight arm. No one could have guessed which school would win with the talent on show, however after a very close encounter Muni Primary School won the afternoon session was split with 6 of our group going off to a new school with no cricket background and what they thought was going to be about 40-60 children soon turned in to 170, Lee keeping us on our toes again!
How fantastic to get the HIV /aids message across to this amount of new children to CWB. Several local coaches led the sessions today and did brilliantly.
Bring on day 4 Festival pairs cricket on the Field of Dreams!
6 comments
Sarah Woods says:
Apr 17, 2013
Wow, just amazing. Well done everyone. xx
James savory says:
Apr 17, 2013
Any sign of the strimmer man Lee??
CWB says:
Apr 18, 2013
No sign as yet but the pitch is in very good shape so think he must have been around recently.
Mike Reeves says:
Apr 18, 2013
Good to see that you all recovered quickly from a pretty gruelling journey. Lee likes to spring surprises with the amount of children that you are faced with! Keep up the good work.
Justine says:
Apr 18, 2013
Lee and Team – Your efforts are much appreciated by UCA. Good to be partnering with CWB in giving these young boys and girls an opportunity to enjoy the game of cricket plus aquire life skills.
Sal says:
Apr 18, 2013
All sounds like it's going great as usual and you're working well together and loving it. Great pics x