WILTSHIRE CRICKET LIMITED
Women and Girls
Development Meeting
Beversbrook Sport Ground
March 2016
Introductions
• Who am I?
• What is my role with Wiltshire Cricket?
• How much time am I allocated to deal
with Women and Girl’s Cricket?
• How does this balance work in reality?
Introductions
• Who are you?
• Which club(s) are you representing?
• Are you already running girls only
coaching?
• If you are, how long have you been
running your programmes?
Wiltshire Cricket’s Young
Player Pathway
• Formalised document created in Autumn 2015
• Based around Wiltshire Cricket’s Outcomes Framework to
“Create a sustainable future for Cricket”
- Creating a fair and safe environment where everyone
receives a positive experience
- Attracting people to participate in Cricket as a sport of
choice
- Maintaining the importance of cricket in the community
• Consideration of how we work with our partners
- WASP, Wiltshire Council, Wiltshire Cricket Leagues
• Considers player retention plans and survey work
Wiltshire Cricket’s Young
Player Pathway
• Consider the Landscape of Youth Cricket
- Strengths and weaknesses of club programmes
- Formal leagues
- Coach education programmes
• Focused on the Landscape of Schools Cricket
- Chance to Shine
- School competitions
- Limited access to children through barriers
- Lack of teacher engagement – Secondary Schools
- Potential informal secondary school teacher training
• Outcomes on Increased participation – clubs and
schools – Opportunities and competition
Agenda
• Performance Programmes
- Women’s Super League
- Update on Wiltshire Winter Programmes
- Update on Wiltshire Summer Match Play Programmes
• Women and Girl’s Hard Ball Opportunities
- Audit on current position
- What is in place?
- Do we need more formal programmes or more informal?
• Women and Girl’s Soft Ball Competitions
- Is hard ball the only option
• Girls specific competition – Hard Ball and Soft Ball
- What is available to clubs and schools?
Women's Cricket
Super League
• History of the Development
- How did Wiltshire get involved?
• What does the Southern Counties Consortium look like in
2016?
- What are the benefits to Wiltshire Cricket?
- How will it help develop our players?
- Will Wiltshire players get to play?
• Longer term plans
• What happens next?
Wiltshire County Cricket –
Winter Programme 2016
• What are we running? How did we select our players?
- Under 11s
- Under 13s
- Under 15s & 17s
- Women’s Senior Training Programmes
• Winter Coach Education
- Certificate in Coaching Children’s Cricket
- Coach Support Worker Courses
- Cricket Activator Courses
Wiltshire County Cricket –
Summer Programme 2016
• Match Play Programmes
- Under 11s
- Under 13s
- Under 15s
- Under 17s
- Women’s 1st XI
• Additional Match Play Opportunities
- Under 11s Extended Programme
- Women’s Super 4s Programme
Club Cricket – Hard
Ball Opportunities
• Current position - Hard Ball Match Play
- Adults
- Girls
• Issues – Venues, player availability, length of games,
number of players on each side
• County / Club Sunday Programme
• Formalised Competition
• Informal Competition
• Audit on current position
Club Cricket – Soft
Ball Opportunities
• Current position
- ECB Programmes
- Wiltshire Cricket Programmes
• Is hardball the only option for your members?
• Soft Ball Festivals
• Individuals / Team Participations
• Sizes of teams, equipment used
• Feedback from the meeting
Schools Cricket –
Match Play Opportunities
• Primary Schools
- ECB Kwik Cricket
- Chance to Shine Participation Festivals
- Chance to Shine Indoor Festivals
• Secondary Schools
- Lady Taverners Indoor Soft Ball Competitions
- Chance to Compete Outdoor Soft Ball Competitions
• No hard ball schools competitions for girls
- however all boys competitions are “mixed”
Women and Girls –
Meeting Outcomes
• Any questions about anything that hasn’t been
covered?
• Any action points to be taken forward from the
meeting?
• How do we want to progress from this point?
• How can Wiltshire Cricket help to make these
progressions?
Any other business?
Any questions?
Ali Goddard – Wiltshire Cricket
[email protected]
07786 361222