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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...

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7 Min

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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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...

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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...

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4 Min

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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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...