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How much is too much when it comes to youth sport?

Creating a positive parent culture

Running good trials and selections

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Balance is Better in Action

How Harbour Basketball embedded a style of play to support better playing and coaching outcomes

Total football, tika-taka, rush defense, motion offense, counterpuncher. What do all of these terms have in common? They are styles of play...

Hamish Rogers 10 Min Read

Coaches

The Risks of Early Specialisation in Youth Sports

In this article, we examine the ever-growing evidence of increasing injury to children in youth sport. Are high-performance behaviors creeping in too...

Sport NZ 6 Min Read

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...

Sport NZ 11 Min Read

Balance is Better in Action

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...

Ciccone Hakaraia-Turner 4 Min Read

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Balance is Better in Action

How to Raise a Champion

In this article, Mike Peacock discusses the importance of developing the person and shares some video from a recent Sport Canterbury event....

Mike Peacock 39 Min Watch

Coaches

Creating an Environment for Youth to Flourish

In this article, Sport Development Consultant, Charissa Barham shares some valuable ideas on creating positive sporting environments and understanding our purpose as...

Charissa Barham 7 Min Read

Balance is Better in Action

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...

NZ Cricket 7 Min Read

Balance is Better in Action

Letters from Rangatahi: Olympic muses and musings (and some thoughts for adults)

Ciccone Hakaraia-Turner 4 Min Read

Parents

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...

Kacey Neely 3 Min Read

Coaches

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...

Hannah Anderson 8 Min Read

Coaches

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...

Craig Harrison 6 Min Read

Balance is Better in Action

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...

Sport NZ 6 Min Read

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How much is too much when it comes to youth sport?

Creating a positive parent culture

Running good trials and selections

Balanced Female Health

Search results for balance is better champion

How Harbour Basketball embedded a style of play to support better playing and coaching outcomes

The Risks of Early Specialisation in Youth Sports

A Guide to Running Good Trials and Selection Processes

Letters from Rangatahi: Olympic muses and musings (and some thoughts for adults)

How to Raise a Champion

Creating an Environment for Youth to Flourish

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