Title Subtitle Netball Northern Newsletter January 2014 Happy New Year! After a fantastic holiday its great to be back and counting down to the start 2014 Northern Mystics of the ANZ Championship season. Only five new look, new team, new year weeks until our opening game against the Melbourne Vixens on 2 March 2014, and six weeks until our first home game on 12 March Issue Date against the WBOP Magic. TheTYPE Northern TAGLINE Mystics HERE will be well and truly court IN THIS ISSUE ready with two big pre-season campaigns planned. The first one is in Tasmania, as a guest of Netball Tasmania, against the Melbourne Vixens on 7 March 2014. The second is the official pre-season of the ANZ Championship held in Melbourne from 14 – 16 February 2014, so keep a watch on the Northern Mystics Facebook site for regular updates and scores. Maria Tutaia Julie Corletto Anna Laura Official notification of the Northern Zone AGM Captain Harrison Langman has been issued this week – our original intent had been to hold a Centre forum on the same day, however we feel it is too close to the last forum. We will be holding the forum later in the year, and from 2015 will hold forums twice a year, around our AGM and then again six months later. No doubt we will catch up with a lot of you with centre AGM’s underway and the Netball New Zealand AGM all in the near future as well. Kayla Cullen Jodi Tod- Bailey Mes Cathrine Julie Paterson – CEO Elliott Latu Erikana Elisapeta Nadia Temalisi Pedersen Toeava Loveday Fakahokotau Marketing/Communications Tash Osborne Happy New Year – another year done and dusted. The Northern Mystics Team is named, with a new uniform, new look, new fight! With Debbie Fuller back at the helm, 2014 is shaping up to be our most competitive yet. So, are you on board for 2014? Membership is a high priority. In 2014 we want to bring together the biggest Membership base in the nation - loyal, passionate supporters who will in turn help to grow the sport as a whole. We have created an 8 page pull out brochure which we will be mailing out to our prospects list, as well as sending a courier pack of brochures to every centre for your noticeboards. How Your Centre Can Help and Benefit – “Centre Incentive Offer” the simple concept of – combining resources for a greater outcome. Send in your mailing list to [email protected] and we can insert your HEADING 4 STYLE personalised centre form into our brochures and send out on your behalf. This should greatly improve the number of potential rebates coming back to your centre. Out and About Community Netball Trish Wilcox – Community Netball Manager Tania Heap – NDO Counties Manukau Anne Nicholson – Junior Netball Development Officer Jan Skilton – Umpire Development Officer Community Netball Youth Advisory Group Happy New Year everyone from the The NNZ Youth Advisory Group met in Netball Northern Zone Community Netball December. Kirstie Toms one of our Zone Team. We are looking forward to an YAG representatives completed a report exciting 2014. and here is a extract from her report : Tania Heap our Counties Manukau “Overall this meeting only just scraped the Development Officer is back on board 27 th surface of ideas and issues across the entire January 2014. In the meantime if you have country. However it was clear that a lot of any queries please contact Trish. good is happening everywhere and as a result we are one of the strongest Netball Youth Advisory Group Meeting Both Tania and Trish attended the NNZ Nations in the world. December Meeting Development Camp in December. It was a fantastic learning opportunity and we have We got straight into looking at the brought back to the Zone key learnings Community Netball Plan, which to me and outcomes for this age group player. proved very interesting as I have been involved with coaching the Fun Ferns and Trish is participating in the NNZ Rules Future Ferns programmes in previous years. Review Group which has been set up to I think that changing the rules, reducing review current rules and to discuss and court size and player numbers is a real action proposed rule changes and trials in important step for developing youth netball. 2014. By making these changes as coaches we are The Zone Events, Tournaments and now able to focus less on things like going Coaching Workshops Calendars will be offside and trying to find a way for such available on our website shortly. We have a small people to push a giant ball through a NNZ Development Camp few dates to be confirmed from a couple of high hoop. We are now able to focus more on Tania Heap centres. skills, and being the base of our sport I can only see this improve the level of our netball We are offering to run representative trial and these youngsters become our next Silver workshops in the next couple of months Ferns. which will cover clear and transparent trial processes, how to run a trial bench and I would like to see a more uniform approach selections . Get in touch with Trish if you taken across the country with the would like more information. programme, which seems to be the overall goal of NNZ as well, so that was encouraging to hear. Junior Development Taking these steps to better netball in our Anne our Junior Development Officer is communities will only increase the country’s preparing for the Junior Netball ability as a whole. Programme roll out throughout the Zone. Most centres have scheduled dates for The day was incredibly informative, and I their Information Evenings and look forward to working with this group in workshops. If any centres have not the future.” scheduled these in yet please contact Anne. Northern Website – Junior Netball Check out the new Junior Development Tab now on our website, information will be placed here as it comes available. We will also be posting tips and resources that coaches, teachers and parents of junior players will find useful. High Performance Hamish Barton – High Performance Manager Northern Mystics Talent ID Programme The Northern Mystics were back in action with fitness The Northern Zone Talent Development Programme for testing on January 6th . Luckily the festive seasonFOR had MORE no INFORMATION2014 will be taking place on Sunday February 2nd and Sunday effect on the athletes’ condition, with all the athletes March 23 rd at the AMI Auckland Netball Centre. The Talent having good results, which pleased the coaching staff. Development Programme is an exciting opportunity for athletes, coaches and umpires to learn and experience the The Northern Mystics have had a couple of good hit outs principles of high performance netball. The objective is that since coming back. The NNZ Accelerant Squad at the completion of the programme those involved will assembled in Auckland for the Silver Ferns Camp which have gained an insight into the commitment and skills enabled the Northern Mystics to play against them. required to perform at an elite level. Magic also played the Northern Mystics on January 17th at Epsom Girls Grammar which again was another really Netball New Zealand Emerging Talent Selectors will be good hit out for the squad and the coaching staff. attending the programme days within each Zone as part of their role to identify talent. Each player will be tracked and The Northern Mystics have been fortunate to secure the observed on various occasions and at tournaments Breakers fantastic training facility for their early Tuesday throughout the 2014 netball season. A final selection will be morning skill sessions. This is very kind of the Breakers made in September/October for players to attend the and it is nice for our athletes to be rubbing shoulders with National Development Camp, December 2014. the Breakers and to create some cross code sharing. Netball New Zealand is providing a Coach Development Under 23’s Programme programme as part of this day. This is a fantastic opportunity Mental Skills for coaches to learn and develop their skills. They will be able The U23 programme got back under way, January 16th to support the athletes in the future by implementing the with the continuation of the Mental Skills workshops. skills and knowledge learnt from the coach programme and This particular workshop focused on how the players can help the athletes be identified as a player with the potential get themselves into the Ultimate Performance State to be selected in a national programme sometime in the (UPS). The major focus was on Pre-Game Routines and future. giving the athletes an understanding on the importance of having routines mapped out, and to know exactly what The Umpire Development programme is also an important their pre-game routines are or could be in the future. component of the programme. This is a fantastic opportunity for umpires to learn and develop their skills. As These routines didn’t just focus on the morning of the an athlete the umpires will be taking part in all the fitness game, but what they did during the week and how they testing and the athletes workshops to ensure they have the incorporated their routines into their training knowledge to develop themselves, which will enable them environment. This was a hugely valuable session and the to umpire efficiently and effectively as possible. athletes and coaches got some extremely valuable information from it . At present registrations are coming in, if you would like more information please contact Hamish Barton- High Fitness Testing Performance Manager for the Netball Northern Zone- The U23’s Training Squad had their second fitness testing Email- [email protected] on January 18.