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Last Updated: Dec 29, 2011 - 2:18:31 AM |
Photo: Kermit Taylor / Bahamas Athletics
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Nassau, Bahamas - He walks about the Thomas A. Robinson Track and Field Stadium as if it was home. His personality and character has made him a fixture of all that is sports in The Bahamas. The name Frank Rahming would not even ring a bell unless you added “Pancho” with it. Recently The Bahamas Primary School Track & Field Championship was named in honor of Frank Pancho Rahming a great Bahamian who made it his life work to develop young men and women in various sports discipline in country, specifically track and field. A man who shuns publicity and revels in obscurity.
"For the past 40 years, Mr. Frank 'Pancho' Rahming has been a beacon of hope in the area of track and field in the Bahamas. He has devoted much of his life to the development and training of young Bahamian athletes, and many who have become top shelf in the nation and around the world.
Pancho seeks no accolades, as a matter of getting him to open up about questions concerning his own career, with quick feet and a glancing smile he quietly disappears.
Frank Rahming has put in the work and any honor given him is well deserved. As the Assistant Director of Sports in The Bahamas, a post he most recently retired from after two decades. Pancho was responsible for the development of many major sports initiative in the country. As a national coach in athletics, he played a significant role in the development of many of our elite track and field competitors and he is a prime mentor and is well respected on the international stage.
Photo: Kermit Taylor / Bahamas Athletics
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Most recently, Rahming also served as the race director for Marathon Bahamas. This is yet another capacity in which he has contributed to nation building through sports.
A member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc, Rahming was a champion long-distance road racer in his competitive days and transitioned to become a premier quarter miler. He represented the Bahamas in the 400m at 1972 Munich Olympic Games.
Frank Rahming is a 2008 Hall of Fame Inductee, who lives and measures his life by faith more than he does the fame. His credibility when spoken of in the context of athletics is impeccable. Mr. Frank ‘Pancho’ Rahming, a charter member of the Bahamas Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., has spent his adult life helping young persons. Mr. Rahming is a Life Member of the Fraternity and has been financial with the organization since his initiation in 1971. He is a certified coach who has spent countless hours early in the mornings and at evenings with young athletes and certainly at no cost to the athletes. His years as a National Coach has earned him respect locally and internationally. He has competed in Olympic Games representing The Bahamas and has attended the last nine Olympic Games, either in the capacity as an Athlete, Coach or Manager, leading still, Mr. Rahming is also active in his church, Mt. Carey Union Baptist Church, where he is the Choir Director. Mr. Rahming is married to Ernestine Rahming and is the father of two.
Photo: Kermit Taylor / Bahamas Athletics
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Photo: Kermit Taylor / Bahamas Athletics
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