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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...

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TSSSA’s Modified Sports Week – responding to the voice of Taranaki rangatahi

In this case study, we hear from Taranaki Secondary School Sport Association (TSSSA), about the design, development, implementation, and iteration of Modified Sports Week. The Modified Sports Week, which began in...

Balance is Better in Action

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Girls Smash with Otago Cricket

Girls Smash is a modified, girls-only cricket programme for years 3 -6 (going to year 8 in some areas) developed by Otago Cricket in 2016. 40 minute session, once a...

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Bring Balance is Better to life theme for June Sport Development Hui

A diverse audience of 180 arrived at Pulman Arena, to korero, connect and learn at the Sport Development Hui earlier this June. With this hui’s focus on Bringing Balance is...

Balance is Better in Action

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Canterbury Commits to Season of Change

Read here to see an updated story on the sports that have been collaborating in Canterbury to align season timings for the benefit of their participants Facilitated by Sport Canterbury,...

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Balance is Better in Action

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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...

Balance is Better in Action

2 Min

Get ready to make the winter season a great one

New Zealand is a country fuelled by volunteers who help keep kiwi kids active. Whether you’re a coach, official or administrator, you have a role to play in keeping young...

Balance is Better in Action

5 Min

Sports stand together to make the 2021 winter season special

After a 2020 winter season heavily disrupted by COVID-19, Sport NZ and five of the country’s largest participation sports are calling on coaches, parents and others at grassroots level to...

Balance is Better in Action

7 Min

NZ a hotbed of research into female athletes

This story was originally published in LockerRoom at Newsroom.co.nz and is republished with permission. In the second part of LockerRoom’s series looking at the development of our sportswomen, Ashley Stanley...