Troy Douglas is open to renewing his contract as the Bermuda National Athletics Association head coach when it expires after next year’s Olympic Games in Rio.

Douglas returned to Bermuda from Holland, where he had been coaching, in 2012 to take on the head coach’s role on a four-year contract.

He confirmed yesterday that he was interested in discussing a new contract with the BNAA board, while also keeping his options open.

“My contract is for four years and I’m going to evaluate myself after my contract is up,” said the four-times Olympian. “The board is going to evaluate me and I’m going to let them know where I see us going in the future.

“I’m putting things in place in the programme and after me there is going to be somebody else. I’m open to suggestions ‘Troy we need you here, here and here because we’re not finished with that, that and that and that’.

“This is a full-time job for three years putting something in place and that takes a lot out of an individual and I need time to sit back and evaluate.

“If I don’t evaluate myself how am I going to evaluate an athlete? Every year I evaluate myself and set new goals and after four years I want to know if I achieved what I set out to achieve in 2012.”

Donna Watson, the BNAA president who was instrumental in bringing Douglas back to take the post, spoke to Douglas last night and remains optimistic he will continue as head coach.

“We got him so that he could help us move towards Rio and we have to have a meeting once his contract is up,” Watson said.

“We will talk about where we want to go and he will tell us where he wants to go and then go from there. There’s been no discussion of him leaving next year.

“We have tons of athletes going off to university and that is Troy with all his contacts.

“There is Jah-Nhai [Perinchief] and Kyra [Scraders] going to Iowa Central Community College, Keisha Miller, a first-time Carifta athlete, to Brigham Young University on a full scholarship and Kyle Webb a full scholarship to Purdue.

“The only reason it could be a problem is if financially we are in a bind, which could happen because we didn’t get the [Government] grant that we got last year.”