January Newsletter

January 2015 Message from Julie Paterson, CEO Hi everyone Inside This Issue

1 Message from CEO Welcome back. I hope you are all feeling well and rested and ready for another big year. The team here at the Northern Zone are all in full swing 2 Community already with a number of community netball projects already underway as 3 Umpire Development well as planning and preparation for the coming months. I am in the middle of the appointment process for the Coach Development Office role (formally 4 Performance Coachforce), and interviews for the Community Netball Manager position will be held in the near future as well. I will keep you advised of the successful 5 Mystics Update placements as soon as I am able to. 6 Upcoming Events In addition with the ANZ Championship season only 4 full weeks away, and our first game only 31 days away(!) our office has been frantic since the day we arrived back. Uniforms have arrived, membership sales are continuing and ticketing strategies are underway. The team leave for the Summer Shoot-out in Sydney on 5 February and prior to that we have a media launch for the season on 4 February - and some exciting news for the team to come out at that. I hope you have all bought season membership - it’s going to be a fantastic year!

Julie Paterson

CEO

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Community Netball

Welcome back. Planning for the 2015 season is well underway. Calendars for umpiring, tournaments and representative fixtures and coaching modules will be circulated to all centres and placed on our web site. Registration forms for tournaments and modules can be forwarded to Sarah Brierly Office Administrator [email protected] to be loaded on our web site.

Netball Community Netball Development Forum

We look forward to the NNZ Community Netball Development Forum in February where NNZ will bring together the netball delivery community. The primary focus will be on the training and support of netball development delivery staff from the NNZ Zones and Centres. The Forum will be a crucial step in raising the number of quality and confident coach developers. The new NNZ Coach Developer programme is based on a new initiative introduced by Sport New Zealand and aligns our coach developer process with a nationally accredited programme. Coach developers will be mentored once back in the community delivering to ensure that they are capable and confident when working with coaches.

Junior Netball

Taster Days and Workshops are getting booked ready to go. All centres will be running the Year 1 & 2 programme, and many centres will be introducing the Year 3 & 4 programme to their community for the first time. The Year 5 & 6 Pilot will be trialled by a couple of centres for NNZ. It is exciting to hear the brand and the sponsorUmpire of the Junior Development Netball programme will be announced together in the near future.

Performance NORTHERN ZONE PERFORMANCE COACH WORKSHOP # 2 The second Northern Zone Performance Coach workshop took place on Saturday, January 17. The first half of this workshop focused on the coaches delivering a 5 minute presentation to the group. Each coach was asked to prepare one slide of photos which depicted their life and their life values and how those values under pinned them as coaches. This is a very powerful exercise to go through and can be challenging because you are opening yourself up and speaking about things that are close and personal. The exercise went really well and it was hugely inspiring to listen to the coaches talking about themselves and their values and nice to get an insight into their lives. The second part of the workshop was facilitated by Sue Emerson and focused on leadership and in particular ‘servant leadership’. The concept of a servant-leader focuses primarily on the growth and well-being of people and the communities to which they belong. While traditional leadership generally involves the accumulation and exercise of power by one at the “top of the pyramid,” servant leadership is different. The servant-leader shares power puts the needs of others first and helps people develop and perform as highly as possible. Rob Gambolati working with The next workshop takes place on Saturday, February 7. the coaches to develop their coaching skills and coaching tools

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Mystics Update

Silver Ferns Team Named for Oceania Netball Series Following a full squad camp in this week, the Silver Ferns selectors have named four Mystics players in their team of 12 to travel to Fiji for next week’s Oceania Netball Series against Fiji and Samoa. will captain the side – in the absence of regular skipper – and she’s joined by her Mystics team mates Maria Tutaia, Camilla Lees and .

The Silver Ferns team is: Laura Langman (tour-captain), Katrina Grant (vice-captain), , Maria Tutaia, , , Shannon Francois, Camilla Lees, Grace Rasmussen, , , Kayla Cullen. (note: was not considered for selection due to injury).

Silver Ferns coach Waimarama Taumaunu says fitness and conditioning has been a key focus for the Silver

Ferns squad at the January camp.

“It was a tough selection but this team comprises those players in the best physical condition to compete in three test matches at this time of the year. The rest of the squad will remain in camp in New Zealand including Silver Ferns captain Casey Kopua whose rehabilitation is progressing very well” she said.

The Silver Ferns team will fly to Suva on Saturday, 17 January and will play in Suva’s National Netball Centre.

All games will be shown live on SKY Sport. Oceania Netball Series Match Schedule Day Date Time Channel Netball: Silver Ferns V Fiji Monday 19/01/2015 19:30:00 SKY Sport 1 Netball: Silver Ferns V Samoa Tuesday 20/01/2015 19:30:00 SKY Sport 1 Netball: Fiji V Samoa Wednesday 21/01/2015 19:30:00 SKY Sport 1 Netball: Silver Ferns V Fiji Thursday 22/01/2015 19:30:00 SKY Sport 1

Whilst in Fiji, Silver Ferns coach’s Waimarama Taumaunu and assistant coach Vicki Wilson will also offer their expertise to local Fijian coaches. The team will arrive back in New Zealand on Friday 23 January.

Northern Mystics 2015

Maria Tutaia Laura Langman Temalisi Fakahokotau Nadia Loveday Kayla Cullen

Sulu Tone-Fitzpatrick Camilla Lees Katherine Coffin Elsa Brown Serena Guthrie

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Upcoming Events

NZTD Weekend February 21-22 at AMI Netball Northern Harbour – information regarding this will be sent to umpire co- oridnators

Umpire Coach/Assessor Workshops 2015 March 9 ANC Update 7-9pm

March 14 Howick Level 1 10-3pm

March 21 Manurewa Introductory 9a.m. – 4pm

March 24 NNH Update 7-9pm

March 27 Whangarei Update 6.30 – 8.30pm

March 28 Kerikeri Level 1 9 .00 – 1.30pm March 28 Kerikeri Obstruction Workshop 2.30-4.30pm