Coaching

Welcome to our June Newsletter,

A copy of this newsletter and those that follow monthly, are now available to read online, via our new Netball Northern Zone Website (www.netballnorthern.co.nz).
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Community

Trish Wilcox (Community Netball Manager) has been out on the road visiting centres, attending open days (Pukekohe, Manurewa) , Rep Tournaments (ANC, NNH) with a trip up north to Hibiscus Coast, Rodney and Kaipara. It was great to see all three centre Executives out on court playing,umpiring or coaching!

Thank you for your hospitality and look forward to another visit.

• Junior Pilot schemes are now up and running at 5 netball centres and have great participation numbers
  Pukekohe Years 1 and 2 =81 /  Howick Pakuranga Years 1 and 2 = 52/ Howick Pakuranga Years 3 and 4 =113 / Northern Wairoa Years 1 and 2 = 15 / AKL Netball Years 1 and 2 = 143 / Waiuku Netball Years 1 and 2s = 27 and  30 Years 3 and 4 (new to netball so taking part in Year1 and 2 programme)

• Holiday Programmes preparing flyers to promote these indoor holiday programmes at Waiuku and Alfriston"
  
  
• CMSPORT’s Enhancement Programme- This involved 108 students years 4 to 6 from a number of Papatoetoe and Mangere schools attending 4 one hour skills sessions in various codes and Netball was one of the chosen sports.
  
  
• Coaching in Schools Programme – Counties Manukau - Continued delivery of previously booked NCM coaching in schools programme to 3 Primary schools for 420 pupils from years 3 to 6 .
  Working with Tania (NDO) to revise and promote skills based coaching in schools programme aimed at primary and intermediate school. Target timeline for delivery Term 3.
  
  
• Umpires - Netball Northern Zone now has 109 accredited umpire coaches after the final workshop 65 at Centre Level, 26 at Zone level and 18 at NZ Level courses.
  In May 20 candidates from Northern Zone sat their NNZ Zone Theory exam, of which 14 were successful. A fantastic achievement.
  Therese Dixon delivered an umpiring workshop to 23 Year 13 Sir Edmund Hilary College Students who were gaining Unit standards from learning how to umpire Netball.
  
  
• Zone Umpire Development Group has been established and had their first meeting last week.
  They are taking on voluntary roles to assist the centres in their areas with their Umpire development Programmes.
  
  
• Technical Officials - Raewyn Donnell delivered an Introductory Bench Official Workshop at ANC this month.
  Raewyn is looking at a try-out on those who were keen to learn at Premier Club grade on Thursday nights this week.

High Performance 

Hamish Barton (High Performance Manager) June has been a busy month for the U23 programme both teams have been training hard and competed in the ANC U23 tournament which was a great chance for both teams to have a good hit out. We facilitated 2 managers’ workshops at the beginning of the month which were fantastic and were well attended by the various Centre Managers.
Thank you to Lynette Brady (Netball North Harbour), Jill Clapcott (NZSS Manager) and Chris Tennant (Mystics Manager) for giving their time to come and chat to the managers.
Keep up the great work guys and all the best to those Centres around the Zone who are preparing for the NZAG Rep tournaments!

• Athlete Pathway draft is underway
  
  
• U23 Dress Design Complete (see website for pictures) www.netballnorthern.co.nz
  
  
• Planning in progress for Talent ID Day in the Far North – Nov 
  
  
• U23 Training Programme developed through to end of 2014
  
  
• Will utilise the U23 Training Programme as a template for the centres rep training programmes during the off season
  
  
• Both U23 teams competed in the ANC Rep tournament (June 8 & 9) which was very successful
  
  
• Highlight – Ann-Helen Rasmussen from the U23 ‘A’ Team was selected into the LG Mystics squad for the Magic game on June 10
  
  
• Player selection and contracting process started (Mystics)
  
  
• Values and Culture workshop in planning (Mystics)
  
  
• Three year plan being worked on (Julie Paterson, Debbie Fuller, Hamish Barton) (Mystics)

Marketing and Communications 

Tash Osborne (Marketing and Communications Manager) this month we are proud to see our new Netball Northern Zone Website go live this week. www.netballnorthern.co.nz .
We are adding to this daily, and thank you to those who are sending me in Tournament Flyers, or key dates you would like advertised on the site.
The aim is for the website to be the “hub” of all things netball in our zone, so please feel free to send me through your information.
Along with the website, we have a Northern Zone Facebook Page http://www.facebook.com/netballnorthernzone, again would be great if centres could “like” the page, which would enable me to share and promote your centres activities and news.

• Mystics Facebook 8063 fans, up from 7950 last month
  
  
• Mystics online magazine “Mystics Nation” generating $1000 per month from advertising
  
  
• Mystics 2014 Membership planning in process
  
  
• Northern Zone – Website live / Facebook page 357 up from 225 last month
  
  
• Northern Zone 2013/2014 marketing plan drafted

So another busy month, but with some great progress being made in all areas. Our Under 23 Teams have been selected, dresses designed, and trainings underway as they build up to the main competition in July.
It will be great to see how the teams perform this weekend in Tauranga for their first hit-out. It is fantastic to see young talent on display and structures and processes starting to get underway for the long term aim of high performance development being available for such talent. It’s also a busy time now with the LG Mystics 2013 season coming to a close. We are undertaking our usual full review of the team, players, and organisation over the next few weeks. It has most certainly been a challenging and difficult season for all involved, and while our on-court results have been disappointing, we have been able to take some really positive elements out of this season that will help put us in a good place moving in to 2014. We are also in the process of getting out to the centres to present the Zone strategic plan, so hope to see as many of you as possible over the next few weeks. 
Thank you for taking the time to catch up on the Zone news - if you have any feedback or would like more (or less!) information, please let us know!

Kind Regards
Julie Paterson – CEO Netball Northern Zone

A pool of knowledgeable, competent Umpire Coaches and Umpire Assessors is required to enable umpires to develop and achieve high standards of umpiring and accreditation.

Umpire Coach – coaches umpire to develop and improve
Umpire Assessor – assesses umpires to achieve practical awards

The role of the Umpire Coaches and Umpire Assessors are to empower umpires by using effective coaching methods that promote Umpire Centred Learning (UCL) to:

• Assist umpires to develop self-analysis
• Analyse an umpire’s performance and pinpoint strengths and areas to develop
• Communicate in an honest and constructive manner
• Make decisions that are detached and impartial
• Exercise duties in a professional manner and maintain confidentiality.

Key Functions

• Coach umpires to improve umpire’s performance and encourage progression along the accreditation pathway
• Assess umpires according to the assessment requirements set out by NNZ

Becoming an Umpire Coach

For more information on how to become an Umpire Coach and the dates of up-and-coming workshops please contact your local netball centre, you can find the contacts for each centre here.

Alternatively, you can contact our Netball Northern Umpire Lead by sending a message through our Contact Us page

We would like to congratulate the following Northern Zone Umpires who have been named in the 2018 National Umpire Squad and Zone Umpire Watchlist. Have a fantastic year.

National Umpire Squad

Myron Elkington

Zak Middleton

Lisa McPhail – Welcome back Lisa.

Cory Nicholls

Marise Stuart

 Zone Umpire Watchlist

Scott Bailey

Maru Delamere

Shaz Papesch