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| Australia’s Scott Houston is the new Oceania
Development Officer, assuming official duties on Thursday 1st January
2009. He replaces New Zealand’s Andrew Hubbard who has occupied the position since 2006 and has given great service during that time to the Oceania Table Tennis Federation; table tennis in the continent has benefited from his efforts. A degree in International Business recently gained at the University of South Australia; Scott Houston holds a Level Two Australian Coaching Accreditation and has been active in the coaching field during the past four years. In addition he is the current Oceania Men's Doubles and South Australia Men’s Singles Champion Experience He has been coaching as far afield as Austria and Fiji, he has held a High Performance Scholarship with the South Australian Sports Institute (SASI) for the past three years; whilst recently he completed his ITTF/PTT Level One Course Conductor training in Cyprus. Scott Houston has extensive competitive experience having played in Germany, China, and Austria whilst also spending time on three different occasions at the Training Centre in Chengdu, China. Motivated "I am very excited to have the opportunity to be the Oceania Development Officer, and I look forward to having the chance to be able to give back something to the sport that has given me so much" said Houston following his appointment. Delighted President Oceania President, Patrick Gillmann is also very pleased with the appointment. "Having a young and motivated person like Scott is a bonus to Oceania”, said Gillmann. “I have immediately asked him to come to New Caledonia in February to both work with him and to see him work". No doubt Scott Houston will impress the President; for Oceania a new era dawns with the extensive work already completed being continued with vigour and enthusiasm. |
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