COMMUNITY Community The year 2020 required Community Netball to be adaptable. With the changing environment we faced due to COVID-19, we learnt new ways to collaborate and deliver Netball online. In the toughest of times our Netball community showed true strength and resilience.
Coaching Performance Coaching Development We commenced the year with gusto delivering a second Composite Coaching Qualification (CCQ) to Netball Central Zone in Wellington, quickly followed by Netball South Zone in Dunedin. Being hit by the COVID-19 pandemic created new opportunities to connect with our coaches nationally and internationally. We connected promptly with our performance coaching community, offering online coach education modules during the first lockdown and
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thereafter. While nothing will replace the value of face-to-face coaching development and support programmes, We were able to adapt, and designed innovative ways of delivering that was meaningful, accessible and ultimately allowed coaches to progress in their development. The Performance Coaching Qualification (PCQ) programme experienced an influx of new coaches at entry level following completion of the first pilot of CCQ in Wellington in 2019. We have been able to develop an online coaching logbook and deliver a new module – the Understanding Tactical Behaviours workshop which enables ongoing learning.
Congratulations to the following coaches who were awarded the PCQ Award in 2020; Charissa Barham Netball Central Sonya Noble Netball Waikato Bay of Plenty Paula Smith Netball Northern Rhiana Wheadon Netball Waikato Bay of Plenty The highlight was the virtual online roadshow presented by Dame Noeline Taurua – Sharing the Love of PURE. Two series of three workshops during the ANZ Premiership competition allowed performance coaches to engage in a bespoke experience with Dame Noeline. She shared her knowledge, experience and learnings, generously providing collegial conversations for coaches to
Community Coaching During the COVID-19 initial lockdown, we had to move speedily to create innovative ways to connect and support our coaches. One exciting and collaborative initiative was the launch of the Coaches Kōrero video series on the NNZ Facebook page. This weekly series featured 12 episodes of interviews with key influencers in the coaching space, with the aim to keep coaching front of mind during the lockdown to enable coaches to have an entertaining learning opportunity, accessible within their homes. We received just under 40,000 views across the series. We also developed coaching workshops that were delivered online both in New Zealand and internationally; we have received such great feedback from these, that we will be continuing with this offering in the future. As we moved into the return-to-play stage, we worked with both Sport NZ and other codes on a return-to-play campaign. This campaign featured a promotional video that thanked coaches for their work during the lockdown. We also created a webinar session for coaches to prepare them for post-lockdown play with over 500 registrations; this was a great chance for us to engage with Coaches during an uncertain environment post-lockdown. In addition, NNZ also developed return-to-play resources that were used by Centres and coaches to help deliver Netball to returning players in a safe and enjoyable way.
coaching community to have their say on the direction of coaching and coach development over the next four years. We released the Coaching Diary as well, which aims to give coaches a resource to support their planning and player development and wellbeing throughout the season. We worked with our Zones on the continuing professional development opportunities for our growing number of Coach Developers (CDs) too. This included four regional workshops and a national collaborative Coach Developers course, run in partnership with Sport NZ and Volleyball NZ across the country.
year for online use so accessibility to the workshops could be improved during COVID-19. More than 1,000 coaches completed their coaching workshops online. This is thanks to the group of junior coach developers who upskilled themselves to be able to deliver quality content digitally.
Player participation numbers: 57, 798 Mother Earth have continued to be a supportive partner in this space,
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The Netball community worked hard to get Mother Earth futureFERNS off the ground this year. As a result of COVID-19, this required replanning seasons multiple times, introducing new health and safety practices and ensuring Netball ran every week. Our Netball community are resilient though and managed to get 80 percent of Netball Centres delivering Mother Earth futureFERNS.
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the Zones with hampers, Mother Earth Basil the Squirrel. Mother Earth also provided 10 gear bags of equipment to Mother Earth futureFERNS Netball teams that needed them this year. The Year 7 & 8 Player Development Programme continued into its third year in 2020 with now over half of the Centres delivering the programme across the country.
Over 850 coaches attended Mother Earth futureFERNS workshops this year to upskill and provide the best experience for our players. All the coaching workshops were updated this
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unpack and make sense of newly learnt information and how it may relate to their own environments. It was an extraordinary experience with coaches tuning in from around New Zealand, as well as Kiwi coaches based in Singapore, Hong Kong, Wales, England and Australia.
It is amazing that so many of these initiatives continued to be delivered to ensure players had access to Netball extension opportunities.
Pre and post lockdown, we worked on the development of the Community Coaching Strategy which brought together key people from across the Netball New Zealand Annual Report 2020
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