The Technical Committee Chairman of the Ghana Universities Sports Association (GUSA), Julius Baba Apindogo, has called for the Ghana Athletics Association to provide more coaches for athletics.

Apindogo recently led a 12-man athlete to the 2023 FISU World University Games in Chengdu, China, where Ghana claimed a gold medal through Rose Yeboah in the high jump category.

Unlike other sporting disciplines, athletics in Ghana has very few officials guiding the athletes in the past few years with the country also looking to get better in the sport.

However, Apindogo, also the head coach of Akenten Appiah-Menka University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development (AAMUSTED), has called for more hands to help develop track and field athletes.

"We need more coaches. We need people who are into [athletics], not the previous way of doing things," he said on his arrival at the Kotoka International Airport on Tuesday, August 8.

"Training now is scientific and therefore we must change. If we change, we can rock shoulders. Something fundamentally is wrong with our coaching system."

Dr Sena Kpeglo, Executive Secretary of Vice Chancellors Ghana (VCG), called on the government to provide the needed support to help the development of athletics in the country.

"Our people are capable. If we had taken more people, we would have had more laurels. Even if we didn't get laurels we would have got exposure so we train them," she added.

"Right now, the resources responsibility lies only on VCG I think that government may consider paying attention to student sports as well. This gold has palpitated us to the highest levels.

"Imagine that we had three or more of this."

The FISU Games is the largest international multi-sport event for student-athletes across the world with more than 2,500 participants from over 50 countries partaking in the 11-day event.