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Welcome to our July Newsletter,
July is the least favourite time for any CEO of a franchise team in the ANZ Championship! Player contracting is at its most frenzied and while players are trying to wind down from a busy season, we are desperately trying to engage and secure the best team that we can for 2014. I am pleased that even after a challenging season this year a great number of the Northern Mystics players have been really committed to returning and wearing the Blue Dress with us again next year. More announcements will be on their way soon. It is also a busy time with sponsorship and the team is flat out preparing for membership sales to go live and for corporate hospitality packages to be finalised to put out in the market as well. We have refreshed the Mystics dress design slightly for next year and will be updating the design on Facebook and the web site.
We were all pleased with how the U23 teams performed this year and a complete review process of the programme is underway now. Hamish has been busy meeting with netball centres to gain an understanding of the development programmes that are underway and most of you will have caught up with Trish at your netball centre recently so it is a busy time for everyone.
The date for the Centre Forum has now been set on Saturday 14 September from 10 am – 3 pm, and we will be advising you of the programme, and venue as soon as possible. I look forward to seeing as many representatives from centres as possible. In the meantime Dianne and I and the board are continuing to meet with centres to present the Zone netball strategy.
I hope you are all enjoying a busy netball season
Julie Paterson – CEO Netball Northern Zone
COMMUNITY:
Trish Wilcox (Community Netball Manager) has spent time in Whangarei at the NZASA tournament, assisting with trial processes and identification of players whilst selecting an NZASA tournament team. She has also met up with Centres that have taken up with the CLUB/Centre WOF that RST’s are offering’s.
It has been wonderful catching up with key centre volunteer coaches, umpires managers and centre personnel at the various representative tournaments. . Well done to everyone on their achievements at the recent age group tournaments, with particular congratulations to the Auckland U19 1 Winners and Auckland U15 1 winners. It was fantastic to see our Zone so well represented at each age group.
It has been a pleasure supporting Howick Pakuranga in their preparations as the host Centre for UNISS this year, a big thank you to Lynette Brady for again taking on the daunting task of the UNISS draw, a role she has done superbly for many years. Lynette is also the chairperson of the UNISS Management Committee.
Remember “Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow” - Happy Netballing Everyone
- Junior Pilot schemes have been running well, with many pilots now finished and been evaluated with all feedback sent to NNZ. Pukekohe are now taking on a Year 3 and 4 small pilot of 3 to 4 weeks to introduce them to the new format next term
- Holiday Programmes at Waiuku saw 30 children take part, with a further 40 children attending Alfriston programme.
- Coaching in Schools Programme – Counties Manukau. Have revised the skills based coaching in schools programme, aimed at primary and intermediate level, it has also been renamed Netball Northern Zone Active Schools Programme. Tania has been busy doing a mail out to targeted schools in Pukekohe/Waiuku , also following up with phone calls and booking visits. Target timeline for delivery Term 3.
- Attended Sport Northland Forum on Side-line Behaviour and Kiwi Sport delivery in Whangarei.
- Distributed and now collating all New World National Volunteer Nominations for the Zone and sending on top 4 nominations to NNZ.
Umpires - Netball Northern Zone in July 2013 had the following accredited:-
- Test Bank theory -517
- Centre Award-60
- Zone Theory -14
- Zone Award – 11
- NZ Theory – 6
- NZ Award- 2
- NZ Zone Theory – we have 52 candidates from 16 /17 Centres – Excellent
- Hibiscus Coast Visit – assessed Centre, Zone and Endorsed Zone awards.
- Trish and Jan to meet with ANC Umpire Group to discuss their development programme for 2014. Also to discuss the development of the younger umpires.
Technical Officials
- Have organised with the Zone T.O group to run official benches at Samoa U21 camp to give more T.O’s an opportunity to practise their skills at this level of competition.
HIGH PERFORMANCE: Hamish Barton (High Performance Manager) The month of July has been all about representative tournaments and there have been some fantastic results in the respective NNZAG tournaments from around the country.
National U23’s was held in Wellington at the amazing ASB Stadium from July 15 to July 18. Netball Northern Zone A team finished 4th and the Netball Northern Zone B team finished 6th in the inaugural U23 tournament. Both teams played extremely well in a very competitive tournament and I’d like to congratulate all the players on a superb effort not only at the tournament but in the lead up to the competition. I would also like to say a huge thank you to the coaches Helene Wilson (A Team Head Coach), Jenny-May Coffin (A Team Assistant Coach), Natalie Milicich (B Team Head Coach), Vicki Morgan (B Team Assistant Coach) and the Team Managers Jill Clapcott (A Team Manager) and Debra Hamilton (B Team Manager) for their amazing work and dedication to the U23 programmes, they did a fantastic job!
National U19’s was also played in Wellington at the same time as the U23 Tournament and in the same venue. Congratulations to Auckland Netball Centre Team 1 who had a fantastic tournament taking out the NAG U19 tournament against Wellington in a very close final. Further congratulations needs to go to Shekynah Clarke (Auckland), Meretini Fuimaono (Auckland), and Tarrantina Tuliloa (Auckland), Stephanie Collins (Papakura), Fa'amu Ross (AMI North Harbour) for making the U19 Tournament Selection.
National U17’s was held in Hastings at the Hastings Netball Centre from July 22 to July 25. Auckland Netball Centre Team 1 had a great U17’s tournament finishing in second place to Christchurch and the Auckland Netball Centre Team 2 finished in third place overall after a hard fought 3rd & 4th playoff against Wanganui. Congratulations must go to Holly Fowler (Auckland), Chiara Semple (Auckland) and Maia Wilson (Auckland), Popua Aleamotua (North Harbour 1), Grace Kukutai (Waitakere), Mechaela Sokolich-Beatson (North Harbour 1) for making the Tournament Selection.
A huge thank you must go to everybody who was involved with all teams who competed at the National Age Tournaments! It takes a huge amount time, organising and resourcing to get these teams to tournament but I am sure it was all worth it and everyone had a fantastic experience!
- Successful U23 tournament for both teams, no we didn’t win but it was success in terms of exposing players and coaches to that level and seeing how they adapted and performed. A lot of positive learning’s for the players, management. Reviews will now begin for both players, coaches and management.
- Mystics 2013 review process with players, management and support staff is now complete and information has been collated and included in board papers
- Signings for 2014 Mystics Season are underway
- Training Venues and support team for the Mystics are all being considered.
- Mystics Assistant Coach Position advertised and closed on July 26.
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS: Tash Osborne (Marketing and Communications Manager) great Facebook and website results in terms of fan numbers for both Netball Northern and the Northern Mystics. 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.
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. We have a lot of new pictures from Tournaments, Holiday Programmes.
- Mystics Facebook numbers at 8319 up from 8063
- Twitter - 2589 Followers
- Instagram (new) 12 Followers
- Northern Zone Facebook numbers at 437 up from 381
- Website – 4204 visitors (15th June – 15th July)
- Northern Mystics 2014 Season Membership due to go on sale in Aug
- New look Northern Mystics Website to go live in Aug.
- Time line set for all marketing initiatives, radio advertising, and promotions.
New World Volunteer Nominations
Just a reminder, these are due in by Aug the 10th to
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STRONG SHOWING FROM NETBALL CENTRAL TEAMS
New Zealand Age Group Championships were held in Wellington from the 15th - 18th July at ASB Sports Centre. The competition was the first National showing for teams under the new Zone Structure and also the debut of the Under 23 grade. Netball Central Zone teams performed well in both the Under 19 and Under 23 grades with Wellington Under 19 coming agonisingly close to taking out the title - going down to Auckland 1 33-32 in the final.
Congratulations to the following players from Netball Central Zone that were named in Tournament Selections:
UNDER 19 TOURNAMENT SELECTION
Danielle Gray - Manawatu
Monalisa Groom - Wellington
Tricia Setefano - Wellington
Keaghan Seymour - Manawatu
Whitney Souness - Wellington
UNDER 23 TOURNAMENT SELECTION
Stacey McFeeters - Central
Netball Central Under 23 Results
Timaru - Round 1 Tournament (6th - 7th July)
Central 52 v South 73
Central 58 v Mainland 59
NZAGC - Wellington 15th - 18th July
Central 49 v Waikato BOP Gold 69
Central 56 v Waikato BOP Silver 46
Central 54 v Northern 1 56
Central 53 v Northern 2 52
5th/6th Play off
Central 52 v Northern 2 50
Full results are available at mynetball.co.nz
