Netball Northern Zone Newsletter October 2015 Message from Tia Winikerei Inside this issue The end of the winter season is upon us and the wheels are in motion for 2016 planning. 1 Message from CNM At the end of this month the community team have a two-day planning meeting and 2 Community Netball there’s a full agenda on our plate. We need to evaluate how well our work has aligned with Netball New Zealand’s and the Northern Zone’s strategic plans—for community. 3 Coach Development This will help us determine our priorities for 2016 and guide us in our work with you. 4 Umpire Development It’s a precious time and we’ll look to communicate the results of that soon. 5 Performance Hamish and I recently travelled north and met with the six North and Far North centres. 6 Mystics Update The purpose of our trip was to discuss youth player development and leadership opportunities. We thank you for your time and the depth of information you shared with us. We look forward to being able to implement some of the plans we discussed in the near future. At the end of the month we farewell Jill Clapcott. Jill has been a part of the Skycity Mystics and the Northern Zone Team for the past three years. Many of you will have dealt with Jill in her various roles for our organisation; as Skycity Mystics events manager, and Netball Northern Zone Administration Manager. Jill’s last day is the Thursday 29th of October. We thank Jill for her dedication and hard work and we wish her all the best with her future endeavours. Julie has had a wonderful time on her overseas mentoring scholarship with the US Department of State and ESPNW Global Sports Mentoring Programme. If you would like to see some of what Julie did on her scholarship click on the links below. Julie returns to work on 28 October. http://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/home/global/global-sports-mentoring- program http://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/home/she-network/sports/changing-the- face-of-womens-sports-in-new-zealand http://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/en/home/she-network/sports/wheres-the- funding-an-interview-with-new-zealands-julie-paterson http://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/home/she-network/sports/gsmp-podcast Tia Winikerei - Community Netball Manager October Newsletter 2015 Northern The 2015 winter season has come to an end. From here many volunteers are busy behind the scenes planning for 2016. Recently, Tia Winikerei and Hamish Barton visited representatives from the Northern Centre’s and discussed player development and youth leadership development. Tania Heap and Trina have also made contact, planning dates to deliver Netball New Zealand (NNZ) coaching courses and netball development days. We would like to say a huge thank you to our volunteers who took the time to meet with us. Kaipara Netball Centre held a Netball New Zealand Community Coach Award (CCA) weekend on September 26th & 27th. Six more coaches successfully completed their awards. It was a great weekend of learning new information and sharing experiences. We look forward to seeing these coaches put what they learnt into practice. The annual ASB Secondary School Sports Awards are being held in Whangarei October 29th. Congratulations to all those that were nominated and good luck to our finalists! The following players are finalists for the ‘Secondary School Netball Player for 2015’: Casey Potae – WNC U/17 Player Leihana Shelford-Tito – WNC U/17 Player Lisa Mather – Kerikeri Netball Centre U/17 Player Trina Henare & Jo Hona—Far and Mid North Netball Development Officers Southern It has been a busy time tidying up the 2015 winter season and for some; organising Netball Holiday Programmes and Summer League Tournaments. Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the Pacific Cup Tournament. Players from our Zone gathered together at Auckland Netball Centre to compete against some of the most tenacious Pacific nations representatives we have on offer. There were six grades from U/11 to Seniors, as well as a Mixed grade. Tonga, Cook Islands, Samoa, Niue and Maori were represented. The Tournament provides opportunities for indigenous people to come together to acknowledge and celebrate their ancestral links and culture, as one. Well done to all who competed on the day it was a great atmosphere to be a part of. Tracey Spence—Southern Netball Development Officer Counties Maori U15A Counties Maori U15B Counties Maori U11/U13 October Newsletter 2015 Coach Development Advanced Student Coach Programme Congratulations to Netball North Harbour who have introduced an Advance Student Coach Programme. The criteria for students to be selected for this programme was to complete a NNZ Foundation Coaching Module, coach for a minimum of 2 years, a commitment to coach in 2016 and an interest and enthusiasm to further their coaching knowledge. The programme provides ongoing support by offering a mentor, an opportunity to work with senior coaches (apprentice coach scenario), ongoing coach education with NNZ Community Coach Award and other opportunities to support and help develop student coaches. The Zone is fully supportive of this wonderful programme and would encourage other centres to adopt a format that would support and develop their student coaches. If you are interested do not hesitate to contact me and we can discuss what a programme could look like for your student coaches. Well done to the following coaches from the Hibiscus Coast Netball Centre who have completed the Netball New Zealand Community Coach Award for 2015 (My apologies for not acknowledging you earlier this year) Wattie Galvin Olivia Rea Debbie Langwell Michelle Chandler 104 Netball Northern Zone Coaches completed their Community Coach Award Between February to October 2015 AMI Netball North Harbour 19 Pukekohe Netball Centre 15 AMI Auckland Netball Centre 13 Papakura Netball Centre 10 Mangonui Netball Centre 9 Hibiscus Coast Netball Centre 9 Howick Pakuranga Netball Centre 8 Kerikeri Netball Centre 7 Kaipara Netball Centre 4 Whangarei Netball Centre 4 Northern Wairoa Netball Centre 3 Waiuku Netball Centre 2 Netball Rodney 1 October Newsletter 2015 Coaching Calendar for November 2016 It is a particularly busy November giving the coaching community lots of opportunities to ‘UPSKILL’ before the New Year. Remember if you are interested in taking part in any of the modules below, you must contact the relevant Centre to register. Date Module/s Netball Centre Netball North 2nd November Fit for the Season Harbour 6th November Selecting Waitakere 7th November Shooting Waitakere 9th November Fit for the Season Auckland Netball North 9th November Attack Harbour 10th November Player Centred Coaching Whangarei 11th November Player Centred Coaching Kerikeri 12th November Player Centred Coaching (TBC) Northern Wairoa 15th November Game Analysis & Fit for the Season Rodney 18th November Player Centred Coaching Papakura 19th November Communication and Managing Others Papakura Skills Analysis 21st November Team Building Papakura Planning 22nd November Shooting and Circle Work Auckland 24th November Selecting Whangarei 25th November Selecting Kerikeri 26th November Selecting Northern Wairoa Player Centred Coaching 28th November Auckland Skills Analysis Team Building Communication and Managing Others Auckland 29th November Planning 30th November Selecting Auckland October Newsletter 2015 Umpiring Yvonne Morgan IUA Shear guts and determination is how one could sum up the umpiring career of Yvonne Morgan, from Netball North Harbour, who has decided to retire from elite umpiring. Yvonne’s first national tournaments were in 2001 when she was selected to officiate at the NZAG and NZSS Championships. From that point on, her career continued to escalate with selection to National Squads resulting in appointments to National Championships, Trans Tasman Secondary Schools Champs , National Bank Cup, Pacific Cup Series, First World University Games, South African versus Northern Ireland test series, Australia versus England test series, ANZ Champs, World Youth Champs, Fast Five Series, Commonwealth Games and culminating this year with the Netball World Champs in Sydney. Over the years Yvonne worked tirelessly toward her ultimate goal, to gain her International Umpire Award which she achieved in 2013. She is to be commended for all the hard work, patience and determination she put in over the years to gain this very prestigious award. Yvonne, while perusing her own goal, has also given many hours back to the umpiring communities of North Harbour and Northern Wairoa. She has consistently umpired North Harbour’s premier competition, has been on the NZ Coaching Panel for many years and taken the NZ theory classes. She has and will continue to be a wonderful role model for all our young and up-and- coming umpires progressing through the umpire pathway, with their long term goal of becoming International Umpires. The Netball Northern Zone would like to thank Yvonne for the years she has represented us at the elite level which she has done in a very professional manner. We are also very fortunate and thankful that Yvonne will still be part of our umpiring community assisting with workshops, coaching and umpiring. Yvonne, you should be very proud of what has been a very long, fulfilling umpiring career. Congratulations! NNZ National Championships The Netball Northern Zone was well represented at the recent National Championships with 5 umpires selected to officiate at this event. Tania Fink (ANC), Tanya McCarthy (Waitakere), Cory Nicholls (NNH), Zak Middleton (ANC) and Kalesi Tabete (NNH) all had a very successful week enjoying the challenge of umpiring at this tournament. Congratulations to Tania Fink who umpired the final and Zak Middleton who did 3 v 4. Kalesi, Tanya M, Zak, Cory and Tania F October Newsletter 2015 New Rules – 2016 As from 1st January 2016 the New Rules that were passed at the recent International Netball Federation meeting in Sydney, will be invoked.