Bermuda Rugby Football Union (BRFU) Coach Lawrence Bird attended the first-ever sevens rugby coaching course organized jointly by the IRB and the Pan American Sports Organization (PASO).
The course was fully funded by PASO and the National Olympic Committees and attended by 30 participants.
The countries represented were Canada (Morgan Williams, new men's coach), USA (Sue Parker, current women's coach), Mexico, Bermuda - Borland, Bahamas, Trinidad & Tobago, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Brazil, Cuba, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Dutch Antilles, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Paraguay, Colombia, Saint Vincent, Argentina (new coach, Nicolas Fernandez Lobbe) and Paraguay.
The members in attendance are confident that PASO will work closely with the IRB in the years leading up to RIO 2016 to make sure that the Americas region develop the sevens rugby coaching intellect that will ensure that Sevens rugby in PASO is at a high standard.
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