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How much is too much when it comes to youth sport?

How much is too much when it comes to youth sport?
Creating a positive parent culture

Creating a positive parent culture
Running good trials and selections

Running good trials and selections
Balanced Female Health

Balanced Female Health

Athlete stories

Balance is Better in Action
2 Min

The journey of Paul Coll (underpinned by lots of hard work)

What value does playing a variety of sport have in youth development? Kiwi squash player, Paul Coll shares some insight into his playing journey. Update: In August 2021, Paul Coll...
Balance is Better in Action
4 Min

Letters from Rangatahi: Olympic muses and musings (and some thoughts for adults)

In this open letter, we hear from Ciccone Hakaraia-Turner, Netball New Zealand Youth Board representative and Year 13 Wharekura student at Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Hoani Waititi Marae. Ciccone shares with the reader her reflections on the Tokyo Olympics, on various...
Balance is Better in Action
6 Min

Silver Ferns captain Ameliaranne Ekenasio on keeping the balance

Silver Fern netball captain Ameliaranne Ekenasio reckons she wouldn’t be playing netball right now if she had specialised early. Growing up in Bundaberg on Australia’s Queensland coast the specialist shooter...
Balance is Better in Action
4 Min

Focus on athletes not agendas – Former Black Cap, Andrew Ellis

Former Black Cap and Canterbury footballer Andrew Ellis grew up on the sidelines of sports fields.  Having a Dad who was heavily involved in the sports media industry meant much of Andrew’s...
Balance is Better in Action
6 Min

Black Ferns rugby captain Les Elder talks about changing behaviours

As player development manager for the Bay of Plenty Rugby Union Les Elder has seen first-hand the impact the focus on winning has on young people.  “Before I started working in sport...
Balance is Better in Action
6 Min

The power of sport in life – White Sox Captain, Lara Andrews

One bad day changed White Sox captain Lara Andrews’ life forever.  At the time the then 19-year-old was going through “teenage stuff” while working as a data entry operator.  “I’d had such a bad...
Balance is Better in Action
8 Min

‘I thought I was crazy’: cyclist’s painful endo battle

This story was originally published in LockerRoom at Newsroom.co.nz and is republished with permission. At least one in 10 New Zealand women suffer every month from endometriosis. NZ cycling champion Kirstie Klingenberg...
Balance is Better in Action
7 Min

The constant loss that wiped out Kayla Imrie

This story was originally published in LockerRoom at Newsroom.co.nz and is republished with permission. Olympic paddler Kayla Imrie has struggled for a decade with the debilitating condition menorrhagia and now wants to help...
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