What is CoachForce??

Netball North, in conjunction with Netball Auckland Waitakere, Greater Auckland Coaching Unit (GACU) and Sport Northland have four new CoachForce Officers based; in the Far North (Mangonui, Kerikeri & Bay of Islands), Mid North (Whangarei & Northern Wairoa), South zone (Rodney, Hibiscus Coast, Kaipara and North Harbour) and Greater Auckland Areas (Auckland and Waitakere).  

Jo Hona serves the Far North area - joanne@netballnorth.co.nz

Jonette Chapman serves the Mid North area - jonette@netballnorth.co.nz

Sandra Hawken serves the South zone - sandra@netballnorth.co.nz

Janelle Nee serves the Auckland/Waitakere Region coachforce@netballaucklandwaitakere.co.nz

Netball North, Netball Auckland/Waitakere, Greater Auckland Coaching Unit and Sport Northland are partners dedicated to work with Coaches in all of these areas.

The key objective for the CoachForce initiative is to ensure that we get more people involved in Coaching, that we retain the ones we have and that we are producing better quality coaches. In the long term this should logically produce better quality athletes and more importantly ensure that ALL participants are exposed to a positive and enjoyable experience in Netball.

Functional Relationships:

• Netball North Netball Centres
• Netball Coaches in the Sport Northland area
• Netball Coaches in the Harbour Sport area
• Netball Coaches in the Auckland/Waitakere areas
• Schools
• Regional Sports Trusts
• Netball NZ
• Other Netball Regions

Key Focus:

• Encouraging netball supporters into coaching
• Providing opportunities to learn and develop
• Assistance with accreditation
• Provide opportunities to network with other coaches
• Provide opportunites for players using the Talent Development Programme

A new and exciting website fo netballers, coaches and anyone interested in netball health and fintess has recently been launched by ACC and is approved by Netball New Zealand.

The website, NetballSmart www.netballsmart.co.nz is an interactive training tool offering tailored training and fitness plans, nutritional and health advice and other exciting features to assist netballers in their journey to success.

NetballSmart is New Zealand’s first fully tailored, free of charge professionally created training program. This is an exciting opportunity to access elite levels of advice and instruction free of charge and commitment.

The Fisher and Paykel funded Coaching Toolkit is now available online FREE.  All Coaching communities will find this resource useful and easy to use.  Go to www. netballcoachingtoolkit.co.nz to get fresh ideas for your next training session
We encourage you to visit the website as soon as you can! 

Other Coaching Info available

Coaching is about sharing your knowledge and experience, making sport fun and giving everyone a go.

You will play an important role in making sure your players learn to enjoy sport and physical activity.

This session is designed to help you get started in coaching.

It provides tips on:

• Your role as a coach in meeting the needs of your players
• Being inclusive and fair
• Communication
• Teaching Games for Understanding
• Running a coaching session
• Planning.

This module will take approximately 30 minutes to complete.

Visit www.mynetball.co.nz (new Netball NZ website) to read more or follow this link www.mynetball.co.nz

2010 upcoming Coaching Courses and registration forms

Check out our Calendar to see the upcoming Coaching Courses.

To register your interest in upcoming Coaching Courses, you can send an email to the following CoachForce Officers who will add you to their database;

For the Far North area courses email; Jo Hona joanne@netballnorth.co.nz

For the Whangarei, Northern Wairoa & Rodney area courses email; jonette@netballnorth.co.nz

For the Hibiscus Coast, Kaipara and North Harbour area courses email; sandra@netballnorth.co.nz

If you would like to pay using on-line banking, please follow these directions [please send in your Registration Form separately].

Direct credit:  Netball North Inc   Account number 12-3119-0097288-000   

Please use your surname and the code following the course [091108c?] as the reference as well as send this completed form to Netball North to confirm your place in the course.

Coaching Links -check out these links for up to date Coaching tips and info

ACC NetballSMART - Netball Fitness Plans

NNZ understanding the player Module 1

Netball NZ's Coaching Information

SPARC Coaching Information

Australian Sports Commission - Coaching

Netball Coaching

Andy Dawson's Netball Resources

Netball coaching software and resources

www.sportplan.com

From the Sideline

So the season is underway and by now you as Coach, should be well underway with training your team. Or are you just beginning to get started?

To help your season run smoothly, here are a few tips.

Appoint someone as Manager
This person will be the one who gets all of thehousekeeping stuff and needs to be organised... all the exciting stuff that the coach can delegate to the manager while the coach can get on with coaching.

Start as you mean to go on, set a team policy or contract
This is a very important tool for managing situations that invariably creep up on teams during the season. Ask the team for input, as it is important that they feel they are contributing. A example is what the team consequences are, if a team member is absent from training twice in a row? Do they get to play on Saturday or do they stand down? These are the type of scenarios that a coach has to be prepared for.

Plan your training sessions and game plans in writing in advance
This helps you from week to week assess what is need for training and what the Saturday game has exposed within the team.
Also, if you are away, the Manager can step in and take over without affecting the team.

Have fun on and off court
As coach, it is up to you to try and inject fun into the trainings. Don't take things too seriously as inevitably, players will get bored. Keep upbeat and involve players in organising fun activities off court.

Encourage your players to look outside the square of playing netball
Most Centres will have coaching courses or umpiring courses. Get your players to attend. This not only helps players expand their knowledge of the game but more importantly, it helps the player-coach relationship by creating a common empathy of knowledge.

The season comes around all too quickly, but before you know it, you are also at the end of it, all too soon. Take the time to thank your players and parents by having a function to mark the end of the season. This is an ideal opportunity to network and start planning for next year.