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Meeting with the Head Coach of the Australian Women’s Volleyball Team

お知らせ |2024年08月09日

 The women’s volleyball team from Australia, where the Summer Olympics of 2032 is scheduled to be hosted, visited our sister school’s Urayasu campus at Meikai University and held a training camp.https://www.meikai.ac.jp/news/post_311.html

 Former head coach of the Asahi University Athletic Association Volleyball Club and member of the Admissions and Public Relations Department, Yoshihiro Inoue, arranged the training camp. President Otomo met with the current head coach of the team, Mr. Russel Borgeaud, in Tokyo.

 The president mentioned that in 2010, Mr. Borgeaud visited Gifu to hold training sessions as the coach of the Australian men’s junior national team and practiced alongside the Asahi University volleyball team. https://mutou-youji.jp/2010/01/18/218/  He expressed his pleasure at meeting with Mr. Borgeaud again after 14 years, and exchanged information about the Australian Institute of Sport, (AIS: https://www.ais.gov.au/) of which Mr. Borgeaud is a member.

 The meeting turned out to be a great kickoff opportunity for our students from the Department of Health and Sports for overseas training in Australia, where the Australian national teams are striving to up their game in preparation for the coming Olympic Games.