Coaches
Why specialising later can reduce the risk of injury and burnout
Good practice at youth development level can enable both life-long participation in sport and future high-performance outcomes. The High Performance Athlete Development...
Balance is Better Philosophy
Balance is Better Philosophy
The Case for Delaying the IDing of Talent
Talent Identification is an important part of youth sport. But how, and when, we begin the Talent ID process can have a...
Coaches
A Guide to Running Good Trials and Selection Processes
We know that trials and selection processes in youth sport can be a hot topic for many sports administrators, coaches, parents and...
Watch
Sport Leaders & Administrators
Webinar replay: Trials and selection processes in youth sport – What does good look like?
Youth sport trials and selection processes have long been a hot button topic (often due to the ‘fires’ they can create in...
Watch
Balance is Better in Action
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...
Watch
Balance is Better in Action
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...