Zones
Our vision is to provide opportunity for volunteers to take part in Netball throughout the Central Zone. We want everyone in the Central Zone regardless of age, background or level of ability to feel able to engage in our sport
Do you want to:
- Support your kids?
- Give something back to the game?
- Contribute to your local community?
- Enhance your work prospects?
- Help others succeed?
- Develop skills such as leadership, communication and teamwork?
- Do something rewarding while spending time with friends?
- Enable people to be active and gain fitness?
If the answer is YES to any of the above, becoming a Netball Volunteer could be for you!
What do Netball Volunteers do?
Many volunteers coach, manage, umpire, officiate or administrate for a Club, School or Centre. Others are involved in governance or specific projects or helping out with one-off events or tournaments.
How can I find out more?
In the first instance you can contact your local Netball Centre please find the contacts for each Centre here
Alternatively, you can contact the Zone
Stuart Savage (Community Netball Manager) 04 387 6037
Other contacts that you may find useful are Sport New Zealand and your local Regional Sports Trust here are contacts and services for you to access:
Managing volunteers
Alternatively, if you are managing volunteers in a programme or at an event you can find a guide to volunteer management here
2024 NWBOP NATIONAL Umpire Appointments
ANZ Premiership
Tania Fink - Hamilton City Netball Centre
Netball New Zealand Open Champs
Connor Pascoe - Tauranga Netball Centre
McKenzie Northcott - Hamilton City Netball Centre
Tekaweora Enoka-Barton - Hamilton City Netball Centre
Netball New Zealand Secondary School Champs
Keni Kingi - Tauranga Netball Centre
McKenzie Northcott - Hamilton City Netball Centre
Aiden Vanner - Hamilton City Netball Centre
Jessica McIntyre-Tate - Hamilton City Netball Centre
Netball New Zealand U18 National Champs
Aiden Vanner - Hamilton City Netball Centre
Caitlyn Forrest - Hamilton Netball Centre
Jessica McIntyre -Tate - Hamilton Netball Centre
Joanie Coles - Tauranga / Whakatane Netball Centres
Justin Ross - Whakatane Netball Centre
Renee Smith -Tauranga Netball Centre
National Umpire Coach appointments
Ceri Hills - NNZ U18 Champs
Jan Teesdale - ANZ Champs , NNZ Open Champs
Pam Clayton - NNZ Open Champs , NNZ Secondary School Champs
Silver Ferns Squad
2023-2024
- Whitney Souness
- Kelly Jury
- Maddy Gordon
- Tiana Metuarau
- Amelia Walmsley
2022-2023
- Kelly Jury
- Maddy Gordon
- Whitney Souness
2021-2022
- Ameliaranne Ekenasio
- Claire Kersten
- Maddy Gordon
- Kelly Jury
Silver Ferns Development Squad
2023-2024
- Fa'amu Ioane
- Parris Mason
2022-2023
- Kristiana Manu'a
- Tiana Metuarau
2021-2022
- Paris Lokotui
- Whitney Souness
NZ U21
2023 - Squad
- Amelia Walmsley
- Sarah Guiney
- Phoenix Schwalger
- Madison Thomas
- Rachel Price
2022
- Caitlin O'Sullivan
- Parris Mason
New Zealand Secondary School Squad
2023
- Phoenix Schwalger
- Sarah Guiney
- Zara Feaunati
- Sovaia Sabutu
- Zoe Elliott
2022
- Kahlia Awa
- Sarah Guiney
- Madison Thomas
- Phoenix Schwalger
2021
- Kahlia Awa
- Madison Thomas
- Rachel Price
- Temalesi Rayasi
- Torren Isaako
- Zalika (Lili) Clarke
NNZ has developed a series of player profiles to better understand New Zealand’s athlete pool and to identify and address those athlete’s development needs.
NCZ has adapted these player profiles to provide maximum effectiveness in our zone.
- In the Pulse and Beko programmes, our focus will be on producing proficient and advanced athletes who can win their respective domestic competitions;
- In the NZSS identification and development programme, where the lead is shared between NCZ and the centres, our focus will be on producing competent athletes who dominate NZSS selections;
- All our centre age grade representative programmes will move from novice to developing player profile standards and our centre age grade representative teams will achieve top four placings at national events
We will support our centres to assess our athletes using the adapted player profiles. We will achieve this by developing and distributing appropriate resources and inducting centre volunteers and staff in how to use them.
We will also work with centres to provide support for those athletes we identify. We will also work with centres to help them support their identified athletes to enter and progress through the NCZ pathway, with the ultimate goal of being selected into NNZ programmes.
Figure 5 below summarises the NCZ player profile performance standards at each level of performance. The following key (Figure 4) explains the assessment terminology used.
| NOVICE | Rule governed. Needs structures and rules to guide performance. Response to situation is limited and inflexible |
| DEVELOPING | Demonstrates acceptable performance of basic techniques and can start to apply them with support and supervision |
| COMPETENT | Performance is efficient and organised but lacks speed and flexibility to adjust |
| PROFICIENT | Understands situation/skill as whole. Can adapt to situations. Techniques are performed fluidly, accurately and at pace |
| ADVANCED | Highly intuitive and characterised by doing the right thing at the right time |
Key - NCZ Player Profile Performance Standards
NCZ Player Profile Performance Standards
NCZ Player Development Programme
The NCZ player development programme is an identification and development programme that provides fitness testing, feedback, sport science education and some programme support for promising secondary school players during the off season. It is designed to prepare participants for the NNZ National Development Camp and the upcoming secondary school season.
There are 2 components of the NCZ Player Development Programme as stated below:
- NCZ PULSE Age Group Tournament
- NCZ PULSE Advanced Camp
The above programmes are implemented by all Centres in the Zone with NCZ and the Netball New Zealand (NNZ) National Development Camp (NDC) is implemented by Netball New Zealand.
NNZ’s performance pathway is a centrally driven, targeted approach to athlete identification and development wherein individuals are assessed and benchmarked against the NNZ player profile and based on their identified potential, move into one of two streams, the NNZ Silver Ferns Development Programme or a Zone/Centre Development Programme.
In the pathway below NNZ is responsible for the Silver Ferns, the Silver Ferns development squads and the national talent identification programmes. Competition performance measures occur in international competition.
CNZ is responsible for franchise, zone and centre performance programmes. CNZ will implement a zone pathway that feeds the national pathway to Silver Fern representation. Our competition performance measures will occur in domestic competition.
Player Development Pathway
NNZ’s player development pathway is outlined below.
NNZ Performance Pathway
CNZ player development will occur through four programmes with different delivery mechanisms. The Pulse and Beko programmes will be centrally driven by NCZ; the leadership and implementation of the New Zealand Secondary School (NZSS) identification and development programme will be shared between centres and NCZ; and all age grade representative programmes will be centre led with support from NCZ.
The following diagram shows the pathway of a NCZ athlete from identification at under 15 through to Pulse representation.
CNZ Performance Pathway
The National Netball League is fundamental to strengthening Netball New Zealand’s performance pathway, the development of talent, and competitiveness of Netball New Zealand’s elite teams.
Central Manawa National Netball League programme
The NCZ Central Manawa programme is a periodised, performance netball programme that runs from a pre-season start in September to the end of competition in June the following year. This programme is led, developed and implemented by NCZ.
The programme commences with a selection of a wider training squad from NCZ Super Zone club competition and centre nominations of appropriately skilled players to attend a one-day screening session.
The programme will commence with a selection process led by NCZ Head of Selectors, Aroha Marsh with NCZ High Performance Director, Waimarama Taumaunu, Performance Manager, Pelesa Semu and in consultation with Central Pulse Head Coach, Yvette McCausland-Durie and Central Manawa Beko Head Coach, Anna Andrews-Tasola.
At this session NCZ selectors will decide which athletes will participate in the Central Manawa pre-season training programme. All participating athletes will receive a completed NCZ player profile detailing their achievement against NNZ standards.
Successful athletes will form the Central Manawa pre-season wider training squad. These athletes will be provided strength and conditioning programmes and individualised support to help them prepare for Central Manawa trials. Monitoring of the Central Manawa wider training squad will occur at regular intervals during the pre-season from September to January.
At any time during the pre-season and before the final Central Manawa trial players may be added and/or de-selected. Performance, potential and attitude will all be considered when making decisions about selection and de-selection.
Following Central Manawa trials, a training squad of approximately 16 players will be named and these athletes will embark upon a weekly training regime comprising at least 2 netball practices, 2 supervised conditioning sessions, 2 supervised strength sessions and a minimum of 60 minutes of game play per week. Netball practices will take place in Wellington, so athletes must be prepared to travel to and from every practice or re-locate.
Central Manawa players and staff will play a stronger role in Pulse succession planning over the next three years. Player selections will continue to prioritise Pulse potential as a selection criterion and the programme will continue to strive to produce one contracted player per year. Coaching and management staff will be appointed with a view to growing the pool of Pulse ready coaches and managers in the Zone.
We will also explore what playing and other netball opportunities we could offer to Central Manawa players who do not achieve a Pulse contract in any given year. We are mindful that each year we have lost Central Manawa players to other franchises because we have re-signed the majority of our youthful Pulse team and therefore have not had contract openings for the next tier of talented players in our Zone. Such opportunities would include, but not be limited to, increasing the number of training partners, having 12 on the bench at all home games and participation in pre-season competition.
