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Hillgrove Colts Cricket Club – 2015/16 Little Dougie's Mate 2010/11 Hillgrove Colts Cricket Club – 2015/16 Jack Carey 207 not out Little Dougie’s Mate 2010/11 2012/13 Hillgrove Committee President – Tony Jones Vice President – Nick Sewell Secretary – Kris Croft Treasurer – Matt Schaefer Junior Co-Ordinator – Ian Reeves Registrar – Brian Parsons 2015/16 – President’s Report Having reached the end of the 2015-16 cricket season, I wish to congratulate all players on a successful season. I also wish to thank all those parents and helpers who enabled our kids to get out and participate in the wonderful game of cricket. Whilst we had no teams winning competitions this year, I don’t believe this is a single measure of success. It may feel nice to take home a trophy, however, I believe it is nicer to be part of a team, develop new skills and possibly form lifetime friendships and memories. With any luck we may also be able to add some premierships next season! Hillgrove Colts Cricket Club continues to provide opportunities for boys and girls of all ages and also supports those players starting to move into senior cricket. I hope that we see some of our new players to the club this year continuing with us over the years and one day also joining our senior teams, just like eight of our Under 16s this year who also played some, or all, of the senior season as well. I am proud of the effort our club puts into nurturing our junior players and I believe this is one major reason our senior teams continue to perform so well in their competitions. From all reports the season ran very smoothly and I must thank those involved in the organisation of the teams for this. Firstly, we must thank Ian Reeves for ‘stepping up’ as junior convenor after having just ‘stepped down’ as club president. Ian continues to be a tireless worker for our junior, and senior players. Secondly, to the coaches I say thank you. It can be a full on job and I hope that some of you may get the odd Saturday morning sleep in over winter! Finally I wish to thank the parents who have supported the teams with scoring, umpiring, helping at training etc. Congratulations to all our players who also made representative teams. Congratulations particularly to Sam Johnson who won the U12 Armidale Representative Player of the Year and Henry Sindel who not only represented Armidale, but also Northern Inland and was then named Vice-Captain of the Northern Razorbacks, who went onto win the NSW State Challenge in Dubbo against the top 100 U14 players in the state. To all our new players, I say welcome and please come back next season (with some mates). To those departing I wish you well and hope that you have enjoyed your time with Hillgrove Juniors. A final thank you goes to our committee. Once again it is this voluntary contribution of time and effort that keeps this wonderful club running so well! Yours in cricket, Soo the Grove. Tony Jones 2015/16 - Hillgrove Junior Report This season Hillgrove entered teams in all age groups and even though none of the teams made the finals I believe it has been a very successful season. I would like to congratulate and thank our coaches for a great season, encouraging every single player to achieve their best and enjoy this great game with their team mates. Thanks also to the parents who have assisted in some way throughout the season, from scoring to umpiring, to just being there to see your child achieve. It is difficult to run a sporting club without the support of sponsorship. We are very grateful to the support of The Armidale City Bowling Club, Grand Hotel, Hillgrove Mines, Local Search and Armidale Pet Shop for their financial assistance throughout the year. Well done to all players that will receive trophies today, and to those who were successful in winning Association awards: Jack Carey – Under 16 Batting Aggregate Judah Flint – Under 12 Bowling Average Hayden Schumacher – Under 12 player of the Lismore Carnival Sam Johnson – Under 12 Rep Player of the Year One of the strengths of our club has always been our junior base. Hillgrove has been up until recently the only club that catered for players from Under 9s through to senior cricket. As a result of this we have always encouraged our juniors to play senior cricket, third grade in particular, once they turn fifteen. This year we had several of our Under 16s players take up this challenge – Lachlan Jones, Joshua Stace, Alex Patten, Aiden Morrissey, Jonathon Parker, Henry Sindel and Jack Carey. For three of these players it was an opportunity for them to play with their fathers. As is usually the case, this only ever lasts for one year, as the younger players usually progress to higher grades, while their dads continue to play out their careers in thirds. Finally, this year I decided to do a bit of research on what others say about being be the coach of a junior team and I came across this article. I think it sums up the role of a coach and why children play sport. SHOULD you ever think about coaching a junior cricket team and concerned family and friends do not organise an intervention, carefully consider the job description. Not stated but assumed is that the under-10s coach will be quasi-captain, umpire, hat rack, curator, grievance counsellor, psychologist, lolly vendor, statistician and conflict resolution manager — with some occasional coaching in the nets, time permitting. When your team is batting, these jobs are performed simultaneously and — you quickly find as a boy soprano chorus of ‘’When am I bowling?’’ rings in your head — impossible to combine with even a mild hangover. Why sacrifice the Saturday morning sleep-in to subject yourself to five months of shoulder-numbing throw- downs and obscure questions from the bright but lateral-minded mid-on about why we are using metal stumps, not wood? Throughout the season I kept a spread sheet to show every kid had bowled the same number of overs, batted in every position and eaten the same number of mini-lamingtons during the innings break. Defence against any parent who complained their kid wasn’t getting a go. But also to satisfy myself I wasn’t falling into the Ugly Coach trap. The result of this brazen egalitarianism? The kids who were already pretty good did well. The kids who weren’t improved. None of them got picked for the Test tour of New Zealand. Which is the vital truth you must embrace before putting down your first boundary cone — an under-10s coach has no more chance of producing the next Ricky Ponting than a primary school music teacher has of producing the next Mozart. Amid the chaos of one weekly 90 minute 14 player training session, the most you can give them is the basics. Teaching nine year-olds to run between the wickets is like teaching squirrels to tap dance. But after a couple of centre wicket sessions during which you make a leather-lunged drill sergeant sound like a flea with laryngitis, they will start to get it. Inevitably, you will learn far more from your players than they learn from you. These lessons are absorbed observing the genuine joy they take in each other’s company and in each other’s achievements. So forget pushing kids into higher grades and rep teams and consider instead the startled smile on the face of the littlest kid who has just taken his first wicket, before disappearing beneath a pile of adoring teammates. Remember children come fully equipped with the most important skill, the ability to take undiluted joy from the game. You can’t give them that but, if you confuse your ambition with theirs, you can take it away. Richard Hinds – Daily Telegraph Until next season. Enjoy the winter! Ian Reeves 2015/16 Hillgrove Coaches The Hillgrove Committee especially wish to thank all the Coaches of Junior teams for their time & dedication to our kids and also a big thanks to those parents who score, umpire and generally help out every weekend. Hillgrove U9’s – Anthony Hawkins Hillgrove U10 – Nathan Porter Hillgrove U12 – Daniel Grimsley Hillgrove U14 – Jonathon Watson Hillgrove U16 – Michael Stace 2015/16 – Under 9’s Back (L-R): Cameron Frost, Simon Grimsley, Chase Hawkins Front (L-R): Jack Waters, Agoi Marial, Emily Simpson, Brendan Bishop Absent: Sabahan Momen Coach: Anthony Hawkins Hillgrove U9 – Report Can I say that it was a great pleasure to be involved with a great bunch of kids and parents. From our first training session at Watson Park to our last game in Guyra everybody was keen and enthusiastic. I came into the coaching role with the attitude it doesn’t matter if we win lose or draw but I soon found out that the side was very keen to participate and succeed (still with the attitude it doesn’t matter if we win lose or draw)which I think is important in the game of cricket. The cricket knowledge and skills of all the kids improved greatly during the season with running and calling between the wickets a highlight, batting averages improved as the season went on with all players working hard in this area. Everybody’s bowling skills improved, bowling is not the easiest skill at this age but with determination all the players had good success. Brendan has great all-round skills, bats and bowls very well (not inherited from his father?) and will go a long way in cricket.
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