Creating a positive parent culture: A guide for schools and clubs
Are the parents at your sports club or school assets and allies or are they antagonists? In this guide, we outline four areas for sports clubs and schools to consider...
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Developing Competence: What Coaches Need to Know about Athlete Learning
Why are some coaches better than others at helping individuals to improve? In part, it comes down to how coaches think about developing competence in their athletes. In this article,...
Beyond Traditional Sport: The Benefits of Informal Sports for Young Women
The physical and social benefits of participating in organized, competitive sports are well known. Not only can a young person develop physical skills and competencies, but also important social skills...
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Replacing Year 7 & 8 representative programmes with skill development opportunities for more participants – lessons from the roll out of Netball New Zealand’s Player Development Programme
In this case study, we hear from Netball New Zealand, Netball Central and Netball Wellington Centre about the implementation of the Player Development Programme and its impact on participants. The...
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The Golf for Life insights project: How Golf NZ is helping clubs to better understand their participants
Understanding why and how people value golf at different life stages is critical in order for the game to continue to embrace the future and plan effectively to meet the...
Setting coaches up for success – A guide for Sport Leaders & Administrators
We know that coaches are pivotal to young people having great sport experiences. Great coaches create quality sport environments for young people. But what goes into making a great coach?...
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Innovative strategies to maximise youth skill development: Lessons from NZ Cricket, Auckland Cricket and AUT
In the following webinar we hear from NZ Cricket and AUT on lessons learned from applying bio-banding to skill-development camps. In 2018, NZ Cricket began to have a hunch that the vast majority...
Good Sports: Making Sense of Youth Sports
As you delve deeper into understanding the issues and challenges in youth sport today, it becomes clear – it’s complex. So how best to make sense of this complexity? Well,...
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Understanding & Developing the Person: An Interview with Cameron Knowles
This video is shared by Player Development Project Cameron Knowles has been part of the Portland Timbers organisation for well over a decade. Following a 7 year professional playing career...