KUCHING: A proposal will be submitted to the National Sports Council to equip the RM35 million Sarawak Aquatic Centre here with adequate coaching and backup facilities.
KUCHING: A proposal will be submitted to the National Sports Council to equip the RM35 million Sarawak Aquatic Centre here with adequate coaching and backup facilities. “Having enough qualified manpower is vital for the success of the Centre, especially when aquatics is a high performance sport,” said Assistant Minister of Social Development and Urbanisation (Sports) Datuk Lee Kim Shin. He added that the proposal was justified by the fact that Sarawak will be the center for swimming and diving nationwide. “Coaches and sport science experts such as nutritionists ,physiotherapists and psychologists are integral to a successful training regimen.” The aquatic centre, built on a 7.3 acres of land in place of the former Youth and Sports Complex along Jalan Tun Ahmad Zaidi Adruce (opposite Saberkas), is expected to be completed by August 2011. The project is fully funded by the federal government in recognition to Sarawak as an ‘aquatics powerhouse’. Housing a training pool and a timing pool with a seating capacity for 188 persons, the centre will also have one administration block complete with lecture halls, a 500-capacity multi-purpose hall or four badminton courts, two hostel blocks with 50 rooms each (100 men and 100 women), cafeteria, a dry gym and a medical and emergency block. Futsal, basketball and volleyball courts will be provided in the compound.For the benefit of Sarawak’s paralympians, the centre will also have features such as ramps and elevators. Meanwhile, Lee hoped that state diving star Bryan Nickson Lomas would be picked for the national 2012 Olympic squad. He said after bagging the silver medal in the 15th Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, the 20-year-old national diver would have a bright chance of competing in the Olympic Games if given further specialized training and international exposure. “We hope he can be in the Olympic squad, even though he is under the National Sports Council (Majlis Sukan Negara). “Our State Sports Council will definitely continue to support him,” Lee added.
“Having enough qualified manpower is vital for the success of the Centre, especially when aquatics is a high performance sport,” said Assistant Minister of Social Development and Urbanisation (Sports) Datuk Lee Kim Shin.
He added that the proposal was justified by the fact that Sarawak will be the center for swimming and diving nationwide.
“Coaches and sport science experts such as nutritionists ,physiotherapists and psychologists are integral to a successful training regimen.”
The aquatic centre, built on a 7.3 acres of land in place of the former Youth and Sports Complex along Jalan Tun Ahmad Zaidi Adruce (opposite Saberkas), is expected to be completed by August 2011.
The project is fully funded by the federal government in recognition to Sarawak as an ‘aquatics powerhouse’.
Housing a training pool and a timing pool with a seating capacity for 188 persons, the centre will also have one administration block complete with lecture halls, a 500-capacity multi-purpose hall or four badminton courts, two hostel blocks with 50 rooms each (100 men and 100 women), cafeteria, a dry gym and a medical and emergency block.
Futsal, basketball and volleyball courts will be provided in the compound.For the benefit of Sarawak’s paralympians, the centre will also have features such as ramps and elevators.
Meanwhile, Lee hoped that state diving star Bryan Nickson Lomas would be picked for the national 2012 Olympic squad.
He said after bagging the silver medal in the 15th Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, the 20-year-old national diver would have a bright chance of competing in the Olympic Games if given further specialized training and international exposure.
“We hope he can be in the Olympic squad, even though he is under the National Sports Council (Majlis Sukan Negara).
“Our State Sports Council will definitely continue to support him,” Lee added.