Player Development & Performance
Using Sport to Help Forge Resilience
This article is shared by Player Development Project How can sport help build resilience in people? Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology...
Development & Performance
If you’ve got coaching experience or are working in player development or performance environments, you’ll find content here on creating positive cultures, psychology, skill development and advice on how to create a great experience for players across codes.
Development & Performance
How Happiness Enhances Performance
This article is shared by Player Development Project Can happiness impact performance? Former Professional golfer and President of New Edge Performance, John...
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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...
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Breaking the Machine
This article is shared by Player Development Project The machine that is premature professionalism in youth sport is a growing problem. Environments...
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Rebecca Dubber on Improving Youth Sport
Rebecca Dubber is a New Zealand Paralympic bronze medalist, who is passionate about getting more young people involved in sport and breaking...
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Case Studies
Case Study: Netball New Zealand
Every weekend over the winter season thousands of Kiwi kids gather on netball courts around the country. From the outside, the sport...
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Relative Age Effect
This article is shared by Player Development Project Steve Lawrence is a consultant to Cruyff Football and Ajax in the Netherlands. With a...
Sport Leadership
Learning Begins When Teaching Stops
This article is shared by Player Development Project How does a teacher or coach transition to a learner-centric view where you can...
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The Process
This article is shared by Player Development Project What is success in youth development? UEFA A licensed academy coach & PDP Technical...
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Keep up with play: the case for taking youth sport less seriously
Sport NZ and five of the largest participation sports in New Zealand – Rugby, Cricket, Football, Netball and Hockey – have launched...
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Are we pushing young people to live up to our expectations, instead of their own?
In this series of Balance is Better articles, Sport NZ explores the myths surrounding youth sport and the shift in thinking needed...
Case Studies
Are we only supporting the kids in the top team?
In this series of Balance is Better articles, Sport NZ explores the myths surrounding youth sport and the shift in thinking needed...