Netball Northern Zone Newsletter
October 2015
Inside this issue
1 Message from CNM
2 Community Netball
3 Coach Development
4 Umpire Development
5 Performance
6 Mystics Update
Message from Tia Winikerei
The end of the winter season is upon us and the wheels are in motion for 2016 planning.
At the end of this month the community team have a two-day planning meeting and
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.
This will help us determine our priorities for 2016 and guide us in our work with you.
It’s a precious time and we’ll look to communicate the results of that soon.
Hamish and I recently travelled north and met with the six North and Far North centres.
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-mentoringprogram
http://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/home/she-network/sports/changing-theface-of-womens-sports-in-new-zealand
http://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/en/home/she-network/sports/wheres-thefunding-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 29 th. 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
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
Michelle Chandler
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
2nd November
Fit for the Season
6th November
Selecting
Waitakere
7th November
Shooting
Waitakere
9th November
Fit for the Season
Auckland
9th November
Attack
Netball North
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
21st November
Skills Analysis
Team Building
Planning
Papakura
22nd November
Shooting and Circle Work
Auckland
24th November
Selecting
Whangarei
25th November
Selecting
Kerikeri
26th November
Selecting
Northern Wairoa
28th November
29th November
30th November
Player Centred Coaching
Skills Analysis
Team Building
Communication and Managing Others
Planning
Selecting
Netball Centre
Netball North
Harbour
Auckland
Auckland
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-andcoming 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.
The NZUDG will be presenting 9 workshops throughout the Zone during March next year to explain the new
rules and these will be open to all umpires, coaches, players etc. They will be 2 hour workshops. Further
information with the dates and venues will be sent to the umpire coordinators in each centre. This information
will also be published in the next newsletter.
Jan Skilton—Umpire Development Officer
Performance
Netball NZ NATIONAL CHAMPS in association with the LION FOUNDATION Final Placings and Tournament
Team comparisons:
1st
2014 Final Placings
2015 Final Placings
Christchurch
Wellington
nd
North Harbour
North Harbour
3
rd
Hamilton
Christchurch
4
th
Wellington
Auckland
5
th
Kapi Mana
Waitakere
6
th
Waitakere
Dunedin
7th
Dunedin
Hamilton City
8th
Auckland
Southland
9th
Taranaki
Counties Manukau
10th
Hutt Valley
Taranaki
11th
BOP
Kapi Mana
12th
Counties Manukau
Wanganui
13th
Thames Valley
Manawatu
Eastern Waikato
Hawkes Bay
2
14
th
15
th
Hutt Valley
16
th
Tokoroa
17
th
Thames Valley
October Newsletter 2015
Congratulations to all players named in the Tournament Team and for those teams that have advanced in their
placings this year.
2015 Tournament Team
Malia Paseka
Ameliaranne Wells
Catherine Latu
uliana Na’oupu
Grace Rasmussen
Elias Shadrock
Whitney Souness
Claire Kersten
Joanna Trip
Kate Burley
Phoenix Karaka
Jane Watson
Kayla Cullen
Karin Burger
Useful Resource to Enhance our Knowledge of Athlete Development
I recently found a great website which I am now linked into through Facebook called ‘Changing the Game
Project’. The founder and CEO of ‘Changing the Game Project’ is John O’Sullivan who started the Changing the
Game Project in 2012 after two decades as a soccer player and coach on the youth, high school, college and
professional level. He is the author of the #1 bestselling book Changing the Game: The Parents Guide to
Raising Happy, High Performing Athletes, and Giving Youth Sports Back to our Kids and Is it Wise to
Specialize? John is also a regular contributor for SoccerWire.com, and his writing has been featured in many
publications including The Huffington Post and Soccer America. John is an
internationally known speaker for coaches, parents and youth sports
organisations, and has spoken for TEDx, the National Soccer Coaches
Association of America, IMG Academy, and at numerous other events
throughout the US, Canada and Europe.
The articles that are posted on the Changing the Game Project website and
through Facebook are very good and thought provoking, they come with an
American slant to them and talk about ice hockey and sports that are not
main stream here in NZ but the topics discussed are pertinent to any sport. I
recommend using this website if you are a parent, coach, or even an athlete
as it provides lots of great articles and education around creating the right
environment for our young athletes to develop.
The Changing the Game website is: http://changingthegameproject.com and
you can also find them on Facebook.
Hamish Barton—Performance Manager
October Newsletter 2015
2016 SKYCITY Mystics Season Memberships are now on sale!
This season the SKYCITY Mystics host seven regular season home games – starting with a rare Friday night
match against the Southern Steel on 1st April. Other big home games include the clash with Magic (6 June)
and the NSW Swifts (26 June).
The SKYCITY Mystics made the semi-finals of the ANZ Championships last season, recording wins over every
New Zealand franchise along the way, but now we need to step things up and bring down the top Australian
teams.
Become a member and add your energy to ours – dress in blue, grab your family and friends, and get on board
for 2016.
2016 SKYCITY Mystics squad:

Megan Craig

Kayla Cullen

Temalisi Fakahokotau

Holly Fowler

Serena Guthrie (import player)

Anna Harrison

Fa’amu Ioane

Catherine Latu

Nadia Loveday

Michaela Sokolich-Beatson

Sulu Tone-Fitzpatrick

Maria Tutaia