The FIVB has invested CHF 369,000 by means of the coach help undertaking in Vanuatu since 2017, with Miller being a part of the nationwide workforce since 2007
- After a formidable enjoying profession spanning 15 years, Miller is eager on writing new historical past as she turns into head coach of Vanuatu’s seashore volleyball workforce
- Miller needs to information Vanuatu again to the FIVB Seashore Volleyball World Championship subsequent yr
- Miller additionally learnt the ropes below a number of coaches by means of the FIVB Volleyball Empowerment Programme
- Miller was Vanuatu’s sole consultant on the ONOC Ladies in Sports activities Workshop for rising leaders in Auckland, New Zealand this month
Miller Pata isn’t any stranger to seashore volleyball. She has been a part of the worldwide Volleyball Household for a few years, representing Vanuatu in continental and world competitions. Her spectacular resume as a participant options two Commonwealth Video games bronze medals (2018, 2022) and as many World Championship (2013, 2015) appearances.
Vanuatu’s seashore volleyball gamers dream to take part within the upcoming World Championships in 2025 (Photograph credit: VVF)
After a formidable enjoying profession spanning 15 years, Miller is eager on writing new historical past as a coach as she takes cost of Vanuatu’s girls’s seashore volleyball workforce.
Simply three months after taking over her new position, Miller is already dreaming huge, hoping to take her squad to the FIVB World Championships subsequent yr, the precise competitors she competed at in 2015.
“I can’t imagine that it’s 10 years already…2015 seems prefer it was simply the opposite day! I wish to help the workforce in order that they will take part in additional competitions, earn rating factors and qualify for the World Championship.
“I’ve performed with most of them so it helps that I do know their high quality and potential. We wish to take it one step at a time, qualify for subsequent yr’s World Championship then goal different main championships,” stated Miller.
Miller Pata (left) conducts a coaching session with Vanuatu’s girls’s seashore volleyball workforce (Photograph credit: VVF)
Miller believes that the top coach job has come on the good time, as she has had years of expertise studying from a number of coaches by means of the FIVB Volleyball Empowerment Programme, as a participant.
FIVB has invested CHF 369,000 by means of the coach help undertaking in Vanuatu since 2017, with Miller being a part of the nationwide workforce since 2007.
“I get pleasure from teaching…It has been a journey and I really feel that I’m prepared for this position. I’ve learnt loads from the coaches, particularly completely different recreation approaches, abilities and coaching strategies. This has made my transition to a coach clean, and I’m trying ahead to attaining nice issues with the workforce” stated a beaming Miller.
Her rising affect off the courtroom noticed her chosen by the Vanuatu Affiliation of Sports activities and Nationwide Olympic Committee (VASANOC), to attend the ONOC Ladies in Sports activities Workshop for rising leaders in Auckland, New Zealand this month.
Miller Pata (proper) conducts a coaching session with Vanuatu’s girls’s seashore volleyball workforce. (Photograph credit: VVF)
Miller was Vanuatu’s sole consultant within the three-day occasion which goals to develop girls leaders in sports activities throughout Oceania.
“It was my first time to attend such an occasion. It was nice assembly with sportspersons from different Pacific international locations and sharing our experiences. We face related challenges as girls and we have now a giant process of accelerating participation of ladies in sports activities” Miller stated.
“We have now few feminine coaches on this area and I hope that my story can encourage gamers that with the proper angle and mindset, they will turn into coaches after retiring,” she added.
Vanuatu Volleyball Federation President Debbie Masauvakalo spoke glowingly of Miller and praised her confidence in Miller’s new profession as a coach.
“It’s good to empower native coaches as a result of they perceive the tradition, know the atmosphere, have a very good native community and join properly with the group. Feminine gamers even have completely different wants due to this fact having a feminine coach main them is advantageous as they will talk freely along with her,” famous Debbie.
“Miller is just not solely a task mannequin but additionally has huge expertise and information of the sport. Through the years, she has constructed a very good community of each gamers and coaches domestically and internationally. It doesn’t occur in a single day…she now has the capability to steer this workforce and we have now little doubt that she will probably be a profitable coach!” the Vanuatu Volleyball Federation President added.
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