talented athletes to achieve their dreams. “Regional structures are going to run athletic events and completion on behalf of the federation, and we are going to intensify the training of administrators, coaches, technical officials to attain the highest level of professionalism,” he said in an interview with Sun Sports this week.

He said that they would work hand in hand to grow athletics and get to the remotest areas, to be able to have competitive athletes at all levels and feed the national teams with a pool of world class athletes and bridge the gap on all other track and field events that they need to improve on. “Athletes, coaches, administrations are the most important part of athletics, and we are all going to work hard to support them, and we will continuously review the athletes’ feeder programs (Re ba bona ha, out of school training camps, school holiday training camps and school of excellence admission),” he added. Bantsi further stated that this time around they are going to regulate the proliferation of road races in Botswana to ensure a smooth- running calendar, in turn protect athletes and create a platform to register and license all involved in the sport of athletics in Botswana. He said that they will continue to look for income generating projects for the association to be self-funding and take athletics to all corners of the country by engaging with different stakeholders, be it local authorities, central government, communities, corporates and

all. Other BAA new board members are Oabona Theetso, the Vice President Administration; Raymond Thapelo Phale, the vice president finance; Kenneth Kikwe, the vice president for sports development while Keamogetse Rancholo

is the chairperson of Southern Region; Tebatso Omphithetse, Chairperson - South Central Region. Mpho Bagwasi retained his seat as the chairperson of central Region and Isaac Mbise is the chairman of North Region.