Netball Northern Zone Newsletter February 2016 Message from Julie Paterson Inside this issue The 2016 year has got off to a very busy start for the all of us at the Northern 1 Message from CEO Zone. The SKYCITY Mystics season starts on 1 April, and the team have had 2 Community Netball two pre-season games already. The NZ based pre-season event starts on 18 3 Coach Development March at The Trusts Arena, with the formal ANZ Championship season launch 4 Performance being held prior to that. The SKYCITY Mystics season launch is on 10 March as well. 5 Mystics Update In addition to this the BEKO National League launches this month, and the team has been selected and is well underway with training. A formal announcement of the Northern Zone team competing in this league will be made once all members have been approved by Netball NZ. We have also been working hard to support some centres with governance and structural changes as well as spending time working through the regional netball facility strategy. Its also AGM season and we have ensured that a representative from the Zone attends all AGM’s, as well as preparing for our own! While it is a busy time it has been great to see so many positive AGM’s and so many positive and committed people continuing to work hard for their sport. The first SKYCITY Mystics game is on 1 April, so if you haven’t already bought your membership, please do so— and remember Centres get a great rate for corporate hospitality if you wish to host your sponsors or special guests at games. Looking forward to seeing you on the 1st! Julie Paterson, CEO Netball Northern Zone February Newsletter 2016 Community Netball Manager The community team are pleased to welcome Anne Nicholson back. Anne has recently rejoined our team on a part time basis and is charged with leading the delivery of the ANZ futureFERNS 6v6 pilot. NNZ is conducting a nationwide pilot of the 6v6 game and this year eight centres in the Northern Zone will play this modified version of netball. The game is exciting fast and furious so make a point of getting out to see one during the season. The other development to the ANZ futureFERNS programme is the introduction of the Year 5-6 and the Year 7-8 coach modules. These are designed for all coaches working with children between Years 5-8. The booklets are branded as part of the ANZ futureFERNS programmme so will look similar in appearance. The content steps up a up a notch and the Year 7-8 coaching resource has been designed from the My Team and Me Foundation coaching module. Watch the coaching space for opportunities to get involved in these workshops. If you would like to know more about ANZ futureFERNS click here: http://www.mynetball.co.nz/futureferns/ home.html Rules Update - New Rules 2016 The Zone have organized a number of workshops for Umpires, Coaches, Administrators and Player throughout March, to introduce the new rules adopted by the INF Congress in August 2015. These workshops are $10 per person and you can register online and pay your money at the door on the night. Early online registrations will ensure that we get sufficient resources to your venue. Click here to register for these workshops: http:// www.mynetball.co.nz/community-netball/umpires/workshops/umpire-coach-workshop-registration.html Technical Official Development Officer Recently we advertised for a Technical Officials Development Officer, which combines the responsibilities of the Umpire and Bench Officials Development in our Zone. The interview process is underway and we will update you on the result of this as soon as we can. Ngā mihi rā Tia Winikerei Northern Centres AGM, SGM Hui have been the focal topic in all Northern Centres over the past two months. This has seen constitutions being reviewed; and rules and regulations being updated. Some committees have also elected new personnel into their ranks. Congratulations to Lesley Wallace (Mangonui) and Lisa Brophy (BOI), who are both newly elected Presidents ; and also to Wendy Cribb (Kerikeri), Kath Nathan (Northern Wairoa) and Lynette Gubb (Rodney), Mili Sipa (Kaipara), and Tania Cargo (Hibiscus Coast) who were recently re-elected as President, at their respective Centre’s. This month we held a very successful Northern Zone – Northland Talent ID workshop with over 30 Athletes coming to experience fitness testing, and to gain an insight into athlete nutrition and mental skills. Jo Hona and Trina Henare —Far and Mid North Netball Development Officers February Newsletter 2016 Southern In the ANZ futureFERNS space Papakura are rolling into Year 3-4 and Pukekohe, Manurewa, Howick Pakuranga and Otara are all participating in the 6v6 pilot. Papakura have already attracted an increase in registrations and this is a testament to the improved understanding around the philosophy and value ANZ futureFERNS. Great work!! Check out some of the photos below. Howick Pakuranga ran their Junior Performance Academy Camp in early February. We worked with some great coaches, including Napah Enosa, Samantha Teinakore , Sharlene Apaipora , Jasmin Apaipora and Chris Dykes, all led by Megan Adler. The participants ranged from Year 6 - 8 with approximately 48 girls in attendance, all at different levels of ability and experience. It was great to see their skills develop over two days and put them to use on court on the last day. The Big surprise for the players was the guest appearance of SKYCITY Mystics players Serena Guthrie and Fa’amu Ioane! Serena and Fa’amu delivered a great attacking session which really stretched the girls understanding and execution of specific skills. Although they were stars-truck, they managed to stay actively engaged at all times. I look forward to seeing some of you at upcoming AGM’s and NNZ Coaching Modules, Keep up the great work! Tracey Spence—Southern Netball Development Officer February Newsletter 2016 Coach Development Netball New Zealand Coach/Umpire Development Forum Netball New Zealand held their annual three day Coach Development Forum at Netball Waitakere in February. We had 16 developers from our zone and a total of 55 developers attended, from around the country. NNZ organised a number of useful and inspiring workshops and presenters, including: Growth and Fixed Mind Set’s, V.A.R.K Learning Styles, Skill Acquisition– Constraints led approach, Allison Mooney – Pressing the Right Buttons (Which by the way evoked a lot of raucous laughter) and effective feedback. It was a great opportunity for all developers to share ideas and examples of best practice. We also got a peek at the new Netball Rules which created some very interesting discussion, we reviewed the ANZ futureFERNS Year 5 & 6 and Year 7 & 8 programme and we were informed about Health and Safety – an absolute must now! It was a pretty full on few days but I have no doubt most of us left feeling rejuvenated and excited about the year ahead. Great start for the Year It is great to see the number of coaches attending the modules around the zone. So far in 2016 coaches have benefited from ‘Community Coach Award’ weekends at North Harbour and Papakura; Developing modules at Auckland ,Whangarei and Mangonui; and ‘My Team and Me’ at Howick Pakuranga. It’s been a real bonus for those coaches that took their learnings and had an opportunity put them into practice either at the workshop or a few days later. Players being coached by coaches from sessions taken from the development work-shops that they attended February Newsletter 2016 It looks like we all have another crazy busy year ahead of us…would we want it any other way? Below are the coaching modules that are being held at the various netball centres for March 2016. Remember if you wish to attend any of these modules you need to contact the relevant centre to register Date Module/s Netball Centre Coach Dev. 1st Mar - Tues My Team and Me Mangonui Tania Heap 2nd Mar - Wed Player Centred Coaching Kerikeri Tania Heap 2nd Mar - Wed My Team and Me Manurewa Tracey Spence 3rd Mar - Thurs Team Building Northern Wairoa Trina Henare 4th Mar - Fri Game Analysis North Harbour Annie Sadlier Player Centred Coaching 5th Mar - Sat Manurewa Tracey Spence Team Building Player Centred Coaching Otara 6th Mar - Sun Tania Heap Communication & Managing Others 7th Mar – Mon Player Centred Coaching Auckland Liz Page 7th Mar - Mon Centre Pass Waitakere Tania Heap 7th Mar - Mon My Team and Me North Harbour Annie Sadlier 7th Mar - Mon Skills Analysis Manurewa Tracey Spence 9th Mar - Wed Team Building Auckland Emma Haigh 9th Mar - Wed Communication & Managing Others Kerikeri Tania Heap 9th Mar - Wed Communication & Managing Others Manurewa Tracey Spence Howick 10th Mar - Thurs My Team Building Wendy Soper Pakuranga 11th Mar - Fri Game Analysis North Harbour Annie Sadlier 11th Mar - Fri Planning Manurewa Tracey Spence Tournament Planning 13th Mar - Sun Mangonui Tania Heap Selecting 14th Mar - Mon Communication & Managing Others Auckland Tania Heap 14th Mar - Mon My Team and Me Mangere Otahuhu Tracey Spence 16th Mar – Wed Skills Analysis Auckland Tania Heap 16th Mar - Wed Communication & Managing Others Whangarei Trina Henare 17th Mar - Thurs Selecting Papakura Vicki Morgan 17th Mar - Thurs Selecting Northern Wairoa Tania Heap Circle Work 20th Mar - Sun Through Court North Harbour Annie Sadlier 21st Mar - Mon Player Centred Coaching Waitakere Tabitha Winter 21st Mar - Mon Player Centred Coaching Mangere Otahuhu Tracey Spence 21st Mar - Mon Planning Auckland Emma Haigh 21st Mar - Mon Mental Skills North Harbour Annie Sadlier 21st Mar - Mon Game Analysis Waiuku Tania Heap 23rd Mar -Wed My Team and Me Auckland Tania Heap Vicki Morgan & 30th Mar -Wed My Team and Me Papakura Tina Morunga 31st Mar -Thurs Through Court Northern Wairoa Tania Heap February Newsletter 2016 Performance Netball Northern National League Camp – Waiouru Army Base – 12th – 14th Feb Day One: After a long journey from Auckland to Waiouru on Friday night, the team was up bright and early and off to start their first day at Waiouru Army Camp.