William Frederick Blick (born 17 October 1974) is a

Uganda Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the ...

n engineer who has served as a member of the

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(IOC) since 2018.

Education

Blick attended the Greenwich School of Business Management Center in

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in 1994 and received a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from the

University of Hull The University of Hull is a public research university in Kingston upon Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1927 as University College Hull. The main university campus is located in Hull and is home to the Hu ...

in 1998. He also holds an Executive Masters in Sports Organization Management from the

Université Catholique de Louvain UCLouvain (or Université catholique de Louvain , French for Catholic University of Louvain, officially in English the University of Louvain) is Belgium's largest French-speaking university and one of the oldest in Europe (originally establishe ...

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, which he received in 2014.

Career

Blick has been the Director of Speedway Quickfix Engineering since 2005. In 2013, he became board advisor of Gems Cambridge International School Uganda. He has been a lecturer and motivational speaker since 2017, as well as a sports consultant. Blick became a farmer in forestry and agricultural produce in 2018, and in 2019 he has worked in Real Estate (Housing).

Sports career

From 2006 to 2013, Blick was the Chairman of the

Uganda Rugby Union The Uganda Rugby Union is the governing body for rugby union in Uganda. It was established in 1959 and is responsible for organising local competitions and the Uganda national rugby union team, Rugby Cranes national representative team. The URU i ...

. From 2010 to 2014, he was executive board member of the

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. Since 2012, Blick has been President of the

Uganda Olympic Committee The Uganda Olympic Committee (IOC code: UGA) is the National Olympic Committee representing Uganda. It was created in 1950 and officially recognised by the International Olympic Committee in 1956. Presidents of Committee * 1950–1958 – Richar ...

and

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. In 2016, he became part of the Commonwealth Games Federation Executive board. Since 2017, Blick has been President of the

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(ANOCA) Zone 5, Executive board member of the ANOCA, as well as, Vice-chair of the ANOCA Games Coordination Commission.

Awards

Blick was named National Rugby Player of the Year 1992 by the Uganda Sports Press Association. In 2006, he was National Clubman Rally Champion, and in 2019 he received the

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. In 2020, Blick received the

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from the ANOCA.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Blick, William Frederick Living people International Olympic Committee members 21st-century Ugandan engineers Rugby union in Uganda Ugandan rugby union players 1974 births Alumni of the University of Hull Université catholique de Louvain alumni