The role of parents in
developing players.

Parents

3 Min

Parenting teen girls inside a world of expectation

Sport NZ spoke with teenage girls and their friends across Aotearoa to explore common themes around how they relate to physical activity. These factors combine to discourage girls from sport...

Parents

3 Min

Parents – helping young people navigate sport cancellation disappointment (again)! 

For the second year in a row, winter sport has been disrupted by the Covid-19 alert level changes. There is no doubt that young people will be feeling disappointed with...

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...

Parents

6 Min

Five questions sport parents should ask themselves at the start of every season

With the start of another sports season just around the corner, it’s a great time for parents to equip themselves with the skills and knowledge that will provide their child...

Parents

5 Min

Keeping your child’s sport clean: Tips for parents and whānau

In this article, we hear from Drug Free Sport New Zealand about what parents and whānau can do to ensure their children’s sport is kept clean. When your child is...

Parents

3 Min

Coping with the ‘cut’: What parents can do to help?

This article has been republished with permission from Sport Parent EU  Deselection — or being cut — from a sports team can be a crushing experience for young athletes. After being cut, athletes often experience...

Coaches

8 Min

Physio talk: what parents and coaches need to know about early specialisation and overtraining?

In this article, we hear from Hannah Anderson, a senior physio practicing in Auckland. As a physio, Hannah is placed right at the bottom of the cliff, helping to mend young...

Coaches

6 Min

What a Great All Black Can Teach Us About Fun

“Make sport fun!”. It seems strikingly obvious. Yet, when you peel back the layers on that word ‘fun’, it gets a little more nuanced. In this article, Athlete Development Project Founder Dr...

Coaches

13 Min

How much is too much when it comes to youth sport? - A guide to understanding specialisation, playing multiple sports, and training load

Recently, lots of guidance and advice has been aimed at coaches, parents, and sport leaders & administrators about how much sport young people should do, and whether young people should participate in one sport or many.   This guide has been...