He has worked with several primary schools for their Sports and Games Programme for Active Learning (PAL) before moving on to athletics coaching. One of his earliest assignments was coaching youth athletes at the Athletics Satellite Centre for Sports Development [now known as the SAA Kids Development (KD) Programme]. Despite being engaged by institutions and schools that have a limited number of a
thletes and resources, he was able to work around these limitations to produce results in a short period of time. Under Coach Hafizโs guidance, the schools have won medals in the National Inter-Primary School Track & Field Championships and National Inter School Track & Field Championships. He considers his greatest achievement as guiding Junyuan Secondary School, a school known more for archery and rugby, to their first ever National Schools Finals appearance for the B-Boys 4x100m Relays. To make it more remarkable, none of the relay runners were in the finals for any individual events. Coach Hafiz has also trained primary school athletes who have progressed to the Singapore Sports School, as well as an athlete who has represented Singapore in junior athletic meets and is currently the Championship Record holder for the Singapore U18/U20 Athletics Championships in the 200m. Armed with 3 years of experience in the education sector, Coach Hafiz is also a firm believer of building character through positive coaching.