Netball Northern Zone NewsleƩer September 2015 Message from Tia Winikerei, Community Netball Inside this issue Manager 1 Message from CNM 2 Community Netball Tia Winikerei, Community Netball Manager 3 Coach Development Welcome to the first day of October. The last couple of weeks have been absolutely glorious. Fresh spring air, bulbs beginning to flower and the sun 4 Umpire Development more obvious than it has been in months. The smile of summer is on it’s way. 5 Performance September begun with torrenal rain and blustering winds though, as many of 6 Myscs Update us converged on Hamilton for the Upper North Island Secondary Schools 7 Upcoming events (UNISS). Our Zone was well represented with secondary schools from all over the region. We baled it out amongst one another, with the teams from the mighty Waikato and Bay of Plenty and the weather. Well done to all the winners, those who made the tournament teams and congratulaons to everyone for making it a challenging, yet rewarding week. Thank you to all those who aended the Zone Centre Forum in mid September. I was great to be in one place reviewing the past 12 months and looking to what netball in the Northern Zone has for us in 2016. Thank you very much for your feedback. It has been both posive and construcve. The Crowe Howarth Pen with built in USBs have been sent to your Centre and all the presentaons from the forum are on them. REMEMBER to get your proposals in to Jane from Vitasport. Her email is [email protected] . The details of her challenge to you is in her presentaon on page 14, which I have sent with this newsleer. Lion Foundaon finals are looming and Julie is having a great me in the US. She will be back at the end of the month. Nga mihi Tia September NewsleƩer Netball Northern Zone Board Profile Here is a lile profile on our board please as we have some new faces. If you want to contact our board, please contact the person who is represenng your area – David as elected for south, Raewyn as elected for greater Auckland, and Lynee for greater Northland. Dianne McAteer—Board Chair Dianne McAteer was a keen netball player, coach and umpire for over 30 years at the Howick/Pakuranga associaon. Her business career started in markeng with companies such as Cadbury, Sealord, and Wae's, before moving into general management as General Manager, Managing Director and CEO with House of Travel group, Visique Optometrists, and Office Product Depot. Dianne has held governance roles with the Breast Cancer Research Trust, Auckland Property Investors Associaon, and is currently a director for Kitchen Studio and West Auckland Trust Services. Email: [email protected] Tony Marlow—Netball New Zealand Appointed director Tony Marlow has worked for BNZ for over 38 years. During which me he has held a number of senior management posions, including Head of Innovaon & Strategy for Retail Banking, Head of Small Business as well as being a member of the banks Retail Leadership Team for over 10 years. Tony has held a number of sports body governance roles over the past 20 years including being a director of Counes Manukau Rugby Football Union and Chairman of the Board for Clarks Beach Golf Club. Email: [email protected] Murray Lockwood—Appointed director Murray Lockwood has been acvely involved in the sporng community for the past 30 years and has previously been a Board Member of Netball Counes Manukau. He is an Execuve Member of The Auckland Sports Coalion and for the past 7 years has been Chair of Auckland‐Manukau and Northland Board for Gymsports. Murray's career began in markeng with Fletchers and Carter Holt, before moving into General Management. He is currently the CEO of MSC Consulng Group Ltd. Email: [email protected] Diana Puketapu ‐Appointed Director Diana’s directorship roles in sport includes the World Masters Games 2017 which was established to deliver the World Masters Games being held in Auckland in 2017. She was recently appointed to the board of the New Zealand Olympic Commiee. Her commercial governance posions include Auckland Council Investments, a Council Controlled Organisaon. Diana was formerly a Chief Financial Officer for over ten years, both in the commercial sector and in the sporng environment. For six years she was the CFO for Americas Cup Sailing teams, so she understands sport in a business context. As a qualified Chartered Accountant, Diana is the Audit Commiee Chair for many of the boards she works with. Email: [email protected] David Ronaldson—Elected Director David was involved in the Board of Netball Counes Manukau for 7 years, the last 6 years as Board Chair. He has been heavily involved in the governance, promoon and development of netball of the Counes Manukau Region. He has worked on the Netball Delivery Review core consultaon group with Netball NZ and has also assisted with Board training for Netball Cook Islands. Outside of Netball David is the Technical Manager, Steel Making and Casng, NZ Steel. Email: [email protected] Lynee Gubb ‐ Elected Director Lynee has been involved with Netball for 46 years – playing, umpiring then coaching and administraon. She has been coaching at club and Centre level for 32 years. Lynee has been on many club commiees over the years and has served on the Rodney Centre execuve for 30 consecuve years holding almost every office from Grounds to President. In 2013, Lynee received a Netball New Zealand Service Award. Over the last few years Lynee has established relaonships with many of the Centre’s of our Zone ‐ from small to large, north to south as well as Centre’s throughout the country. Email: [email protected] Raewyn Henry—Elected Board Member Raewyn has been involved in netball for over 50 years as a player, coach and administrator at all levels of the game. She has coached school, Premier Club, Auckland U21, Auckland NPC and coached the Welsh Naonal Team through to the Commonwealth games and World Championship. During her me in Wales Raewyn was heavily involved in the restructuring of the sport and was also on the Sports Council for Wales. Raewyn is a Silver Ferns Selector and Chair of the High Performance Commiee for Netball Auckland Waitakere. Email: [email protected] September NewsleƩer ANZ futureFERNS ANZ futureFERNS Netball Fesval Day Our inaugural Zone Fesval Day was kindly hosted by Netball Waitakere this year. The morning was fun and friendly for our young players and their families. It was fabulous having our very own famous local netball star Cat Latu from the SKYCITY Myscs hanging out with the players. The players got to play with Irene Van Dyk at one of the many acvity staons, play the new 4 v 4 or 5 v 5 games and graffi a message to the Silver Ferns on a banner. Many thanks to Cory Nicholls our new Zone rep for the NNZ Youth Advisory Group, who spent his day as Basil the squirrel for Mother Earth. Although it was a sell‐out (all 200 free registraons allocated) prior to the event, unfortunately not all 200 turned up on the day. Parcipants travelled from Dairy Flat to Takanini and all went home with happy memories, autographs from their netball stars and a bag full of goodies. Special menon to our local SKYCITY Myscs sponsors The Hits and VitaSport who supported the day. Thank you to Eleanor Simmons, Tabitha Winter and the wider community from Netball Waitakere who made this day so special for the children. We expect most people aending would be from their neighborhood and trust this event should raise the profile of their netball programmes and also of their wonderful facility. As quoted by one father “I’ve never been inside here before although I have driven past many mes, it is amazing!”. We now have our own Zone ANZ futureFERNS signage for other similar events. Please contact Sarah Brierly our Office Administrator for bookings to use the ANZ futureFERNS banner, 2 x A‐frames and 2 x tear drop flags. Dr. Craig Harrison – Director Athlete Development AUT Millennium We were privileged to have Craig present to us during the ANZ futureFERNS Workshop at the Zone Centre Forum. Craig is well qualified with a PhD 2014 and MPhEd 2006 specializing in Exercise Physiology and Exercise Science with his parcular interest in Youth Athlete Development. He is well respected in his field and has personal experience with Netball as the husband of Anna Harrison. Craig shared his professional research, findings and beliefs with us. He complimented the rule changes NNZ has introduced in the ANZ futureFERNS programme to date. His message included: player centered, fun, enabling self‐improvement, providing a compeve environment to play hard in smaller team sized games and to do to the best within a social context. “An athlete must first be immersed in the fundamentals to have any potenƟal to reach a high level of skill”. He commented that sport at the High Performance level was now all about entertainment and that unfortunately the commercialisaon of our game had brought in the ‘win at all costs’ approach at all levels. Craig encouraged us to believe in what we are doing. Investment in skills and competence which increases confidence in young players will benefit our children, more than a coach centered short term approach with a focus on winning. For more informaon and to receive his weekly blogs please go to www.autmillennium.org.nz 2015 Player parcipaon Survey As the second year of the new programme draws to a close, NNZ is keen to hear from the parents of the parcipants about their views.