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Julie Paterson – CEO

The countdown till Christmas is on, and

a much needed break for many of us.

I would like to thank all those who

attended our very first Netball Northern

Centre Forum on Saturday the 2nd of

Nov. We had a great turnout, and across

the board representation from the

centres.

Judging from the feedback we have had,

you found the forum to be informative

and a great way to further open up

communication within the zone.

All the slides from the forum

presentations can be found on the

Netball Northern Website if you need to

refer back to them, or please feel free to

contact Tash if you require any of the

resources talked about during the

forum..

We are excited at the recent launch of

both our 2014 Northern Mystics

Membership options, which are selling

well, and the 2014 Corporate Hospitality

Packages which are also on sale at the

moment.

Kind Regards

Julie Paterson

Netball Northern NewsletterNovember 2013

Season Membership on SaleDespite the 2013 season, the Northern

Mystics are blessed with some of the

most loyal and passionate fans!

With some key signings and the return of

Debbie Fuller at the reigns, fans have

rallied behind their team – and Season

Membership renewals and new

memberships are selling well.

We have also introduced a new

membership – Premium Gold for those

wishing to have allocated seating, parking

and a few extra benefits.

Corporate Hospitality on sale

now – Centre Special Pricing2013 saw record numbers for our Home

Game Corporate Hospitality, and we are

expecting 2014 to be even bigger.

Whether it be a Season or a per game

package, hosting your clients at a

Northern Mystics match, will be an event

they will remember.

Please note that as Netball Northern

Zone Centres, you will receive a

discounted rate, for all information/

pricing and bookings contact

:Jill.Clapcott@netballnorthern.co.nz.

Historically games against the

Waikato/BOP Magic sell out first, so be in

quick to secure your table.

Another great boost in netball excitement due to the outstanding

performance of the Fast5 Ferns – taking out the title for another

year at the Fast5 World Championship. It was also great to see so

many from all over the zone volunteering in the workforce, and

by looks of it, having a great time!

So following on, our Mystics Membership is now on sale, and

selling well, along with corporate tables being pre booked.

Any help with advertising out Membership through centre

Facebook pages or websites would be greatly appreciated, the

bigger the better.

New pages have been added to the Northern Zone website, one

being Employment Opportunities – so this is available not only

for Northern Zone positions, but if centres are looking for

coaches, or any additional staff please feel free to send through

to me , and we can load up for you.

This also goes for any upcoming tournaments, holiday

programmes , pictures, competitions, anything you need help

advertising out.

Please also note that I am happy to help with any Facebook

questions, or set ups , so just flick me an email anytime.

HEADING 4 STYLE

Marketing/Communications

Tash Osborne

Digital Media Northern Zone.

� Facebook numbers at 528 from 512 previous

month

� Facebook page has highest numbers out of all 5 zones

� Website visitors 4102 (15th Oct – 15th Nov)

Digital Media Northern Mystics

� Facebook numbers at 8468 from 8423

previous month

� Twitter numbers at 2904 from 2828 previous month

� Instagram numbers at 208 from 157 previous month

� Highest Facebook/Twitter numbers for all 5 NZ

Franchises

Talent ID DaysThe Zone Community Netball Team

joined High Performance Manager

Hamish Barton, and Under 23’s Coach Kiri

Wills in the Bay of Islands/Whangarei to

deliver Talent ID days. Players, Coaches

and Umpires experienced practical and

mental skills sessions, fitness testing and

game time. A hugely enjoyable and

worthwhile weekend for all involved.

Far NorthTania Heap has been working in the Far

North schools, delivering Junior Skills

sessions, as well as Coaching sessions for

teachers in primary schools . This has

been met with fantastic feedback and is

now concluding with an interschool

cluster festival day. This will be held at

the Bay of Islands Netball Centre on the

5th December 2013. Anne and Tania will

be facilitating this day showcasing the

modified version of Year 1 ,2,3,4 games.

NNZ Youth Advisory GroupCongratulations to Nicole Jensen

nominated by Papakura Netball Centre

and Kristie Toms nominated by

Howick/Pakuranga Netball Centre. Both

have been selected to represent the

Northern Zone on the NNZ Youth

Advisory Group .

This group is set up to inform and consult

with NNZ on a number of aspects of

Netball and how they affect young

people.

We are very proud of our two

representatives and wish them both well

in these roles.

NNZ Community Development

ForumThis was a great opportunity to meet and

network with colleague’s from all over NZ,

with such a unified feeling of learning,

sharing and experiencing the NEW Junior

Programme which included skill sessions

through the eyes of children.

NNZ Youth Advisory Group Congratulations to Nicole Jensen (left) nominated by

Papakura Netball Centre and Kristie Toms (right)

nominated by Howick Pakuranga Netball Centre both

have been selected to represent the Northern Zone on the

NNZ Youth Advisory Group

Waitakere Netball – Junior Pilot Scheme6 week Junior pilot scheme at Netball Waitakere, Year

1,2,3,4.

Out and About

Community NetballTrish Wilcox – Community Netball Manager

Tania Heap – NDO Counties/Manukau

Anne Nicholson – Junior Netball Development Officer

Community Netball Development ForumThe Northern Zone staff and Centre representatives.

(Left to right) Annie Sadler (NNH), Michelle Wallace

(NNH), Trish Wilcox, Jan Skilton, Tania Heap (all Northern

Zone), Wendy Soper (HPNC), Emma Haigh (ANC), Moana

Brown (NW). Anne Nicholson (Northern Zone), Robin

Manihera (NNZ Coach Force), Natalie Pati (NW)

Junior Pilot SchemeWe would like to thank Waitakere Netball

Centre for taking on a 6 week Junior Pilot

Scheme for year 1 and 2, and year 3 and 4.

Great work Moana Brown, Jess Coltman

and Natalie Pati for all your hard work to

make this pilot such a success.

Anne Nicholson has been observing the

weekly sessions and seeing the skills being

absorbed by the players and put into

action during the modified games. The

reinforcement of skills from one week to

the next is a credit to the game leaders.

Their support of the players through the

games and voicing positive feedback via

key words has been outstanding.

Practising skills, lots of catching and

passing and shooting in the Junior Pilot

games is receiving positive comments

from the majority of the parents on the

side line and the smiles from the children

showing total enjoyment.

Umpire Appointments 2014Congratulations to the following umpires who

have been selected into National squads.

ANZ Squad

Fay Meiklejohn , Yvonne Morgan

National A Squad

Lisa Paterson

Emerging Talent Squad

Matthew Davis, Lisa Stallard ,Tanya McCarthy

National Development Camp

Anna Cresswell, Cory Nicholls ,Shontel

Hunter

Netball Northern Zone Performance Squad

Matthew Davis, Lisa Stallard ,Tanya McCarthy,

Zak Middleton, Glendon Carter, Christina

Matthews, Rebecca Jeans

NZUDG

Raewyn Ronaldson, Elaine Curtis, Debbie

Shoebridge ,Jan Skilton

U23 Fitness Testing

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Centre Rep Coach SelectionsThis month I have been part of the ANC rep coach interviews. This was a really

positive experience getting to know the coaches and getting a better understanding

of the coaches in ANC wanting to coach at the various rep levels.

Under 23 ProgrammeWe have named the U23 squad of 24 players, a very exciting mix of athletes. The

selection panel comprised of Kiri Wills- Head Coach, Paula Smith- Assistant Coach,

Judy Weston- HP Manager NNH & NNZ Emerging Talent Selector, TeAroha Keenan-

MAGS Coach, Robin Manihera- Counties Manukau LF Cluster Team Head Coach &

Hamish Barton- Netball Northern Zone, High Performance Manager.

The first Mental Skills workshop took place on November 28 at ANC. All of the Mental

Skills workshops will be facilitated by Daniel Stamp, who is a sports psychology

lecturer from Unitec and runs his own company called Ultimate Performance. Daniel

also works with a number of HP rugby academies and has been working closely with

Kylie Wilson who is also a sports psychologist who works with the Silver Ferns,

NZU21’s and NZSS and is fulltime with HPSNZ. The session focused on self-

awareness and reflective practice.

The first of 3 Fitness tests for the U23’s took place on Saturday, November 30 with the

players being put through their paces by the U23 Strength & Conditioning Trainer

Chloe McKenzie. The results from this first fitness test and the Body Movement

Screening will be used to compile the Individual Performance Plans for the athletes.

The U23 Management Team will be using an online Athlete Management Programme

called Total Coaching to manage each of the U23 athletes. Basically the programme

enables the management team to create training plans, monitor the athletes

performance including analysing their nutrition, sleep habits, goal setting etc, drag &

drop videos, generate reports, and communicate with the team or individual athletes.

The beauty of the Total Coaching Programme is that everything is stored in one area;

there is no paper trail or emailing of documents, printing difficulties, so basically no

excuses!

For more information regarding Total Coaching go to-

http://new.totalcoaching.com/sport/

Upper Northern Talent Development ProgrammeOne of the key focuses for the Northern Zone Performance Programme is to ensure

that athletes, coaches and umpires are exposed to equal opportunity in terms of their

development and also opportunities to be identified as potential talent for the future.

On Saturday November 23 and Sunday November 24, two days of Talent

Development took place in the far North. The first was held at Bay of Islands College

gymnasium in Kawakawa and the second was held at the ASB Leisure Centre in

Whangarei. There were 26 athletes, 8 coaches and 8 umpires involved in the first day

in Kawakawa and 36 athletes, 10 umpires and 11 coaches involved in the second day in

Whangarei.

High PerformanceHamish Barton – High Performance Manager

Mystics First Training

U23 Mental Skills Session

Athletes were put through their paces with fitness testing, skill development sessions, basics of mental skills and game play at the end of the day.

For 99% of the 26 athletes and 8 umpires in Kawakawa they were taking part in their first ever Yo-Yo intermittent recovery test, which was fantastic

because it meant we were straight away exposing these athletes to something new.

The 2 best Yo-Yo scores from both days were from Grace Morrison from Kerikeri NC who made level 17 and Olivia Lobb from Whangarei NC making

17.1 in Whangarei. Robin Manihera- Coachforce Manager for NNZ was working with the coaches during the day discussing various aspects of the

day. The coaches were given a coach workbooks that they were required to work through during the day while observing and making notes.

Jan Skilton- Northern Zone Umpire Development Officer worked with the umpires developing their fundamental umpire skills and working on

aspects that will make them more effective on court e.g. positioning and vision.

Skill development session were facilitated by-

Lead Coach- Kiri Wills- Passing- variety /options /passing into space & shooting

Lead Coach- Trish Wilcox- Footwork – turning fully , pivoting & defence

Lead Coach- Tania Heap- Attack – method(s) of getting free & mid-court

All in all both days were a huge success and a lot of thanks needs to go to the Centres in the far North for helping with the organisation of both days

and for organising the people from their centres to attend the day, in particular Dot Dromgool from Kerikeri NC, Dallas Williams from Bay of Islands

NC, and Jean Hansen from Whangarei NC and everyone else who helped out from all the centres during the what was a successful weekend.

Also a big thanks to the Netball Northern Zone personnel, Trish Wilcox, Tania Heap, Jan Skilton, Anne Nicholson, and Kiri Wills U23 Head Coach and

NNZ Coachforce Manager – Robin Manihera for the work you put into making these two days such a success!