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Netball New Zealand U19 Champs
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Fast5 Netball World Series
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2014 Trials

Selectors including Kia magic Coach Julie Fitzgerald and WBOP U23 Coach mary Jane Araroa will select a squad to defend the 2013 Under 23 Championship title.

Open Trials

Wednesday 2 April - ASB Arena Tauranga (5:30pm-8pm)Sunday 6 April - Cambridge High School (1pm - 4pm)

Eligibility

Players that are 19-22 years old as at 1 January 2014

Squad Training

Monday - Aquinas College (6pm -8pm)
Wednesday - St Peter's Cambridge (6pm-8pm)

NZU23 Age Group Championship

Sunday 6 July - Friday 11 July 2014, Edgar Centre, Dunedin

Netball New Zealand National Under-23 Championships 2014

Objectives:

• To provide a competitive playing opportunity leading to a higher level of preparation for players, coaches and officials leading to the ANZ Championship and international level.
• Leading to greater improvement and consistency in performance at ANZ Championship level.
• Establish and embed High Performance Principles;
  - Training
  - Preparation
  - Performance
  - Pressure
• Provide a Competitive environment / structure
• Clearly differentiate the High Performance Pathway vs. Participation Pathway

Format

2014 –

• Four days – Monday to Thursday
• Round Robin – 4/5 games
  - Two games may be played on one day with minimum 4.15 recovery between end of one game and the start of the next match.
  - End of Round robin teams are ranked 1 to 5 or 6
• Final play-offs
  - 1 v 2
  - 3 v 4] or variation of 4 v 5 – winner v 3
  - 5 v 6]
• Total of 5 to 6 games

Entries

• One per Zone
  - Northern/WBOP/Central/Mainland/South
• NNZ to investigate an invitation team from e.g. Australia/Oceania to attend
• Total of 5 or 6 teams

Guidelines

Team Selection –

• Age group for selection for the U23 teams is:
  - over 19 and Under 23
  - Each team may have two age exemptions;  Up to two players may be either/or Under 19 or Over 23 (as at the 1^st January in the year of the competition)
• Note: Each Zone is responsible for determining the use of the exemptions for their team. However, the guiding principle is to use these for players that meet the criteria of developing elite.
• Exemptions must be advised to NNZ in advance and noted on the official team list.

ANZC players –

• Players contracted to an ANZC team are to play for the Zone U23 team that aligns with the ANZC team to which they are contracted
  - However it should be noted that – ANZC players are not contracted to play U23 and may elect not to play in this competition or;
  - If they are U19 they may elect to return to their Primary Centre and play in the U19 team –regardless of whether it is aligned to their ANZC team.
• All ANZC players under 23 and over 19 are eligible for selection –
  - Except if a player is a member of the Silver Ferns Squad for 2013/14

Selection Criteria and Processes

• Zones may determine their own trial/selection/development squad processes for the selection of their teams.
• NNZ HP Selectors are available and willing to support Zones in this process.

Naming of the Zone U23 Team

• NNZ will require the naming of the Team (that is up to 12 players) by Wednesday 25^th June 2014.

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