Lester Osouna

Lester Osouna was the executive Manager of the Sport Performance and Development Unit with the Sport Company of Trinidad and Tobago from 2006-2009. Mr. Osouna is an avid sportsman, physical educator and consultant and has fifty years’ experience in the delivery of physical development, sport and wellness programmes for students from the primary school to university levels. He worked alternatively in the Ministry of Education for fifteen years, the Ministry of Sport for fifteen years and with the Commonwealth Sport Development Programme for five years as the Coordinator for Development through Sport programmes in the Caribbean.

Mr. Osouna’s widespread experience in working with youths and adults throughout the Caribbean and locally has allowed his influence to reach thousands of athletes and fitness enthusiasts in sports clubs, at the community level, government institutions and in the corporate and banking sectors. He served as a Sport and Physical Education Administrator for a number of years.

Educated at the Mausica Teachers College in Trinidad, Universities at Leeds, North England, Victoria B.C. Canada, University of the West Indies and The University of Trinidad and Tobago. His major areas of studies were Coaching Education, Exercise Physiology, Care and Prevention of injuries, Strength and Power Conditioning and Sports for Development. He has worked extensively in teacher and Coach Education programmes at the University of the West Indies, Ministry of Education and more recently with the University of Trinidad and Tobago. With the International Association of Athletic Federations (IAAF) he is a Chief Coach (development coordinator), a Level iv Sprint and Hurdles, Level III Throws coach and did his dissertation in Middle and Long Distance at Leeds University, England.

Working with individuals and groups in the Caribbean in Healthy Lifestyle and Paralympics programmes are interesting areas of work performed over forty years of experience. He has a broad range of experience in the area of massage therapy with national teams and individuals. He attended two Olympics, one Paralympics, two Commonwealth Games, three Pan American Games, NACAC Games and several CARIFTA Games as Head Coach and Massage Therapist to National teams He served as an internal auditor in the NAAA in 1974 and as a 2nd vice President from 1991-94 and as a coach educator since 1989. He is a recent recipient of the FCB Sports Hall of Fame for Coaching.

A wealth of experience in varied sporting disciplines provides for a wide range of services. A recipient of National Award with the National Football team (the Strike Squad where he was the Athletic Trainer). More recently as the Head track and field coach at the university of Trinidad and Tobago he was responsible for our first university track and field representation at the PENN relays in Philadelphia on three occasions performing creditably and the World University Games in Russia, Korea. He coached Darren Alfred our first finalist at the Games achieved in Korea. Serving as physical education teacher and sport officer he worked at the Primary, and Commonwealth Caribbean sport development programme and Caribbean association of National Olympic committees. He is a level two Yoga teacher and one of the early providers of services as an anti-doping officer in the region.

A diploma in Public Relations enhances his knack for working with people, which he has done extensively at clubs, National and International Federations and with national teams in various sports.

Mr. Osouna speaks Spanish fluently, some Yoruba and French Creole and has travelled extensively to the Caribbean, South, Central and North America, Asia, Australia through and Africa through sport and culture. Some national athletes benefiting from his work are Haydn Stephens, Derek Archer, Neil De Silva, Wendell Williams and James Dedier. As a member of the Sports medicine association of Trinidad and Tobago he served from the 1991 Pan American Games to the 2000 Olympics as a massage therapist while assisting the track and field team in the field events on many occasions. His areas of study include a teacher’s diploma from the Mausica teachers college, Advanced Diploma from the Leeds University England, A high Performance Coaching Diploma from the University of Victoria Canada and an International masters in Sports for Development University of Trinidad and Tobago.