Silver Ferns

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 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 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.

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.

Pre and post lockdown, we worked on the development of the Community Coaching Strategy which brought together key people from across the 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.

Mother Earth futureFERNS and Year 7 & 8 Player Development Programme

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.

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 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, supporting the Festival Days held in the Zones with hampers, Mother Earth product and their much-loved mascot 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.

It is amazing that so many of these initiatives continued to be delivered to ensure players had access to Netball extension opportunities.

Umpiring

Community Umpiring

The spirit with which the umpire coaching fraternity embraced online learning and the growth of our umpire coach developers were the highlights of community umpiring in 2020.

When we were forced into Alert Level 4 in March, we were able to adapt quickly and deliver our 2020 umpire coaching update through a series of online workshops. In total, 44 online umpire coaching workshops were delivered to 310 umpire coaches by 28 umpire coach developers. The feedback from participants was overwhelmingly positive with over 90 percent wanting an online learning experience in the future.

Seeing our umpires back on court later in the year was rewarding in a challenging year. In all, we had 1,763 qualified active umpires out on court supported by 471 umpire coaches. A total of 26 umpires achieved their Zone Umpire Award with four achieving their New Zealand Umpire Award in 2020.

High Performance Umpiring Highlights

Fourteen umpires were selected to the 2020 NNZ National Umpire Squad this year, to officiate in the ANZ Premiership and Beko Netball Leagues with Marlissa Howard and Michelle Stagg being selected for the first time. Cory Nicholls made his debut at ANZ Premiership level.

The impact of COVID-19 and the cancellation of the Beko Netball League meant that we were only able to appoint nine of our squad in an elite domestic competition. The five umpires not selected to umpire in the ANZ Premiership showed great resilience and a positive attitude in continuing to hone their craft within the community.

NNZ contracts six umpires with their International Umpire Award and one internationally talent-identified umpire.

2020 National Umpire Squad Angela Armstrong-Lush (IUA) Josh Bowring (IUA) Myron Elkington Gracey Farquharson Gareth Fowler (IUA) Ann Hay (IUA) Marlissa Howard Jess Lea Sasha McLeod (ITID) Ken Metekingi (IUA) Zak Middleton Cory Nicholls Kristie Simpson (IUA) Michelle Stagg

NetballSmart

This year has been a challenge for all of Netball and like the other NNZ programmes, NetballSmart has responded to support the Netball community. As the healthy heart of Netball, NetballSmart has continued to develop into a comprehensive holistic injury-prevention programme and has an extensive and new array of resources to support the player, the coach and the umpires to help improve performance and decrease injury risk.

With a new website in place that is mobile friendly, NetballSmart resources are now accessible to all. NetballSmart is making a difference to the injury rate of Netball players. With a reduction in the number of injuries and an impressive return on investment, ACC has committed to supporting the NetballSmart programme for another three years. NetballSmart and NNZ greatly appreciate the ongoing support from ACC.

Thank you to the following NetballSmart Development Officers (NSDOs) for taking NetballSmart to the community, imparting their knowledge and making a difference to the injury rates:

Mel Kemp and Suzie Belcher Netball Northern Jenne Jones-Poole Netball Waikato Bay of Plenty Carla van der Merwe Netball Central Hannah Coutts Netball Mainland Gwenda Harrop Netball South

Thank you to the coaches, players and umpires who have embraced NetballSmart. Collectively they are all making a difference.

And thank you to the Zones who have supported the NSDOs, promoted a collaborative approach to engagement.

NetballSmart is looking forward to another three years of working with and supporting all of Netball.

Youth

In 2020, we moved into the second year of the Youth Engagement and Retention Strategy (YERS). The YERS aims to be agile in its approach, so the pillars have been updated and the direction from the learnings in our first year framed our work. The impact of COVID-19 did halt some activity, but it was great to see the work the Centres and Zones put into providing opportunities for rangatahi to play in an ever-changing, challenging landscape. Our mission has always been to “Connect and empower youth by providing participant- centred opportunities through quality experiences”.

NNZ established the Netball New Zealand Youth Board (NNZYB), a group of young leaders who are passionate about Netball and growing our sport. This group co-designed their purpose and values that underpin the actions and motivations of the Board. One key outcome of this is that Georgia Trent was appointed as the NNZ Board intern as a youth representative. The group have become ‘champions of youth voice’ and have presented at the Sport NZ CEO forum, NNZ Council Workshop and Strategy presentations, and leadership workshops/conferences with Queensland Netball and Netball Victoria.

Sport NZ’s Women & Girls Fast5 Project was implemented this year with 12 Centres involved. This Fast5 project is developed by youth, for youth. Though this was challenging to deliver this year, it was great to have rangatahi co-designing what their participation experience would be and become a vehicle for change in the youth space.

Volunteering

Our volunteer partnership with Cadbury has continued to grow and see more volunteers in Netball valued and supported. This year especially, Netball volunteers were at the heart of ensuring that Netball was able to be played safely across the country. Centres were thrilled with how their volunteer army stepped up and went the extra mile to make sure that participants were able to play the game they love. It was vital that Centres could recognise and thank these people, for all their efforts.

Highlights:

• Centres and Zones said thanks to their volunteers with over 40,000 Cadbury Thanks-Packs distributed nationally.

• The Cadbury Volunteer of the Month acknowledgement initiative ran from

July to September. There were 330 nominations from 52 Centres and three volunteer feature video stories on NNZ channels.

• Five volunteers were awarded in the annual Cadbury Volunteer Awards across the categories of Coach,

Administrator, Official, Youth and

Community Champion. Winners were presented and hosted at the Cadbury

Netball Series when the Silver Ferns played the England Roses on Sunday 1

November in Hamilton.

• Volunteer resources available on NNZ website. • Visibility of volunteers and their stories on NNZ, Zone and Centre communication channels.

• Cadbury Call Out segment on NETFIT

NZ during Alert Levels 4 and 3 national lockdowns.

• Cadbury Volunteer Capability Fund established to develop volunteer management capability within 10

Centres as a pilot project. Each Centre has appointed a Volunteer Lead as part of this initiative.

Cadbury Volunteer Coach of the Year: Jason Pope Hamilton, Netball Waikato Bay of Plenty

Cadbury Volunteer Official of the Year: Amelia Wheeler Wellington, Netball Central

Cadbury Volunteer Administrator of the Year: Jo Morriss Waiuku, Netball Northern

Cadbury Youth Volunteer of the Year: Georgia Trent Dunedin, Netball South

Cadbury Community Volunteer Champion of the Year: Dana Turnbull Eastern Southland, Netball South

PSP

Pacific Sporting Partnership (PSP)

It has been a year of learning and development for our Pacific Sporting Partnership. We have continued our partnerships in Samoa, Fiji, the Cook Islands and Tonga, and started programme delivery in Vanuatu.

The restrictions due to each country’s COVID-19 response has impacted our delivery, but has also provided the opportunity to redevelop our programme to be more resilient and improve its long-term sustainability.

The PSP was established in 2017 as a five-year commitment, with the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT). The aim is to increase physical activity, and promote and encourage healthy lifestyles for young people in the Pacific. We have established partnerships with the Netball associations in each country, working closely with them to support the development of Netball with their young people and have partnerships with government and non-government organisations to promote healthy lifestyles as part of the netGO programme.

Each country is unique in its sport development and health awareness approach. Therefore, we work with the local Netball associations, government ministries, schools and local NGOs to develop locally-relevant plans, utilising common programmes where useful.

We have developed accredited Netball coaching programmes endorsed by the Oceania Netball Federation, including an accredited umpire development programme, a fundamental movement skills programme endorsed by the Fiji Ministry of Education, Heritage and Culture, and this year a youth sport leadership programme, derived from the NNZ Netball Leaders Programme. Our experts from NNZ and the Zones provide training in these programmes to local coach developers and umpire coaches. In 2020 this has included Nicola Jones, Ann Hay, Tammy Mehrtens, Charissa Barham, Ruta Schwalger and Irene van Dyk. We also provided Netball equipment to schools, communities and clubs to support their training and development.

However, PSP is not just about Netball. All our programmes have nutrition and general healthy lifestyle components. In addition, we partner with nutritionfocused organisations. Through our relationship with Hāpai Te Hauora, we have been able to use their Fizz Free Whānau campaign in the Cook Islands (Fizz Free Anau) and Samoa (Fizz Free Fanau), we work with the Pacific Island Food Revolution to deliver healthy cooking lessons, and have utilised the promotions from Pacific Heartbeat (NZ Heart Foundation) and the New Zealand Health Promotion Agency. In Vanuatu, we have established partnerships with the Vanuatu Family Health Association to support delivery of their reproductive health messages to young women and Won Smal Bag, a local NGO with a strong youth wellbeing focus.

The development of the Pacific Island- focused Netball Leaders Programme has been a very exciting step in 2020. This initiative builds youth leadership and empowerment, alongside providing Netball development training to young people, helping to create the next generation of sport leaders. The programme was trialled in Fiji and Vanuatu in 2020. In 2021, we plan to bring this programme to our Pacific Island Netball communities in New Zealand, connecting the participants between New Zealand the Pacific Island nations, as well as extending to the NZ Rugby PSP.

Our programme slogan “Netball for Life” and programme name “netGO” embodies our focus of creating a lifelong love of Netball and promoting healthy lifestyles.

In Numbers

To date in Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, the Cook Islands and Vanuatu:

• 1031 teachers and volunteers accredited as Oceania Foundation coaches

• 37 coach developers trained who can locally deliver the Foundation

Coach course

• 186 teachers and student teachers trained in the Fundamental

Movement Skills programme to support their in-class physical education teaching to Years 1-4 students

• 174 umpires trained

• 647 Netball kits given to schools and clubs

• 6 youth facilitators trained to deliver the Netball Leaders Programme

In 2021 the programme will focus on:

1. Further development of the sustainable coach developer and umpire coach network for long-term Netball development;

2. Deployment of the Netball Leaders youth leadership programme, including extension to the Pacific Island community in New Zealand, and other sports.

3. Enhancement of our relationship with health and nutrition partners, focusing on establishing long-term partnerships.

4. Creation of a sustainable approach to the Fundamental Movement Skills teacher professional development work.

Lastly, we would like to thank those that have donated Netball equipment through our work with schools and clubs in our partner countries – Netball Northern Zone, Netball Wellington, Netball Waitākere, Whitestar Netball Club in Pukekohe, Wānaka Primary Schools, Auckland Netball Centre and others. We are always appreciative of these donations – thank you.

LIFE MEMBERS

Life Members in the order they were conferred:

1932 Irene McInnes+ 1949 Betty Armstrong+ 1949 Myrtle Muir+ 1965 Stella Schnack+ 1966 Sara Foster+ 1967 Rena Mackenzie+ 1967 Catherine Vautier OBE+ 1968 Eileen Lane QBE+ 1969 Evelyn Bell+ 1969 Margaret McAughtrie+ 1975 Ona Coatsworth+ 1975 Edna Yates QSM+ 1977 Jean Lodge MBE+ 1978 Joyce McCann MBE+ 1981 Marjorie Jenden QSM+ 1987 Anne Taylor OBE 1989 Dame Lois Muir OBE DNZM 1991 Judy Russell MNZM 1991 Betty Steffensen QSM 1993 Dawn Jones OBE 1994 Joyce Ellis + 1994 Dal Knuckey QSM + 1997 Monica Leggat MNZM+ 1999 Christine Archer 2002 Fay Freeman ONZM 2003 Sheryl Dawson MNZM 2006 Sheryl Lady Wells CNZM 2010 Robyn Broughton ONZM 2010 Taini Jamison OBE 2011 Marian George QSM 2012 Kereyn Smith MNZM 2017 Leigh Gibbs ONZM 2018 Yvonne Willering ONZM

Service Awards

1967

Ona Coatsworth+ Waikato Joan Durbin+ Auckland Joyce Ellis+ Auckland Eileen Lane+ Netball NZ President Jean Lodge+ Rotorua Jean Rountree+ Auckland

1968

Doreen Brown+ NZNA Pat Cairney+ NZNA Vonnie Flood+ NZNA K Palmer+ NZNA V Rainey Waikato Iris Weston+ NZNA Edna Yates+ Canterbury

1969

Peggy Bithell+ Taranaki Margaret Gibson+ Wellington

197O

Rona McCarthy Hawke’s Bay Hazel Paul+ Wellington Isobel Stuart Auckland

1971

Myra Denniston Western Bay of Plenty N Ford South Canterbury Taini Jamison Rotorua Barbara Marchant Wellington

1972

Ina Graham+ South Waikato Marjorie Jenden+ NZNA Gladys Symes+ Hawke’s Bay

1973

Alice Gemming Western Bay of Plenty Hazel Wickens Te Kawau

1974

Betty Ditford+ Canterbury Lorraine Duffy Hutt Valley O Husband Ashburton Joyce Lee+ Canterbury Margaret Pierson Hutt Valley Helen Yates+ Canterbury

1975

Dixie Cockerton+ Matamata Pat Cullen+ Wellington Alison Elder Canterbury Florence Gough+ Canterbury E Hoglund (née Penman) Ashburton Dorothy Hughes Canterbury Dal Knuckey+ Joyce McCann+ Wellington Alice Nichol+ Canterbury Shirley Peacock North Shore Joyce Prevett Matamata Squib Ramsey Matamata A Taylor Hutt Valley

1976

Val Gavin+ Otago Edna George Otago Doreen Hes+ Southland Lena McTaggart Otago Yvonne Sycamore+ South Waikato Nancy Whittleson Otago C E Williamson Poverty Bay

1977

Yvonne Atkins Hawke’s Bay Violet Byers Otago Myrtle E Lee Hawke’s Bay Ellie Moon Waikato Anne Taylor Waikato

1978

Sonia Deeble King Country Pam McCloy Otago Mary McConnell+ Otago Margaret McDougall South Auckland Lois Muir Otago Judy Russell Auckland Shirley Smith+ Wellington Anne Temple Wellington

1979

Molly Dorne+ Horowhenua Edna Hansen Manawatū Dale Wortman Wellington Betty Plant+ Wellington Nancy Read+ Canterbury Jo Selby Manawatū Oonah Shannahan Canterbury Betty M Steffensen Manawatū

198O

Cherrie Beattie Te Kawau Dorothy Dee Nelson Marian George (née Smith) North Shore

1981

Losene Collins Hawke’s Bay Val Fletcher West Auckland Bev Fryer Poverty Bay Irene Gurr+ Manawatū Dawn Jones Auckland Joyce Prankerd Wellington Shirley Sanderson Matamata Jean Skelsey Whanganui Annabel Sutton Hawke’s Bay A Tippet Southland

1982

Norma Burns North Otago Pat Cleland Wellington Ainsley Jacobs Howick/Pakuranga Diane Madgwick North Shore Nita McLean Western Bay of Plenty I Reeves South Waikato Dorothy Smith Wellington Betty Woodham Marlborough Molly Wright South Waikato

1983

Janice Blissett Temuka and Districts Margaret Herron (née Thompson) Otago Audrey Thurlow Otago

1984

Rangi Delamare Eastern Bay of Plenty Dorothy Fathers Thames Valley Nita Harris Kaikōura N Shannon Eastern Bay of Plenty D Simpson North Canterbury Aroha Turnbull Thames Valley

1985

Edith Findlay Southland

1986

B Harding Hawke’s Bay Norma Peggs West Auckland Bernice Wood Taranaki