Coach Education and Development

The 2021/22 season has seen a new structure in the delivery of coach development at Cricket NSW.

To enhance coach development, education and accreditation, Jay Lenton has been appointed as the Coach Development Specialist. This role will oversee the expansion and implementation of coach development initiatives such as updated social media platforms, online masterclasses, podcasts and a new online mode of delivering ten hours of theory of the Representative Coach Accreditation course. Cricket NSW Coach and Talent Specialists have continued utilising online coach education and development sessions where appropriate, while overseeing a return to face to face programs. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all Cricket NSW Coach and Talent Specialists, Community Cricket staff and casual staff who have organised, facilitated, promoted and led coach education and development sessions this past season. Without their hard work and dedication, Cricket NSW would not have been able to reach as many coaches as we did.

COACHING ACCREDITATION COURSES

Community Coach

There was a total of 27 Community Coaching Courses with 275 new accredited Community Coaches (Level 1) in the last season. These courses were held across NSW.

Through Cricket Australia, the delivery method of this course was broken into a two-hour online and two-hour face-to-face process. Representative Coach

Three Representative Coaching Courses (Orange, Sydney, Newcastle) were conducted within NSW in the 2021/22 season, with 80 new Representative-accredited coaches. Cricket NSW made changes, for the first time, to the structure of the course, combining both online and face-to-face modules, allowing participants to complete the course safely and in a more time friendly manner.

COACH EDUCATION

Coach education continued to be a focus for Cricket NSW over the last season.

Over 450 coaches worldwide experienced the Cricket NSW ‘Masterclass Monday’. Three sessions were presented by the following coaches • Stephen O’Keefe (Spin Bowling) • Morne Morkel (Pace Bowling) • Nick Larkin (Batting) This program was complemented by face-to-face programs conducted by the Coach and Talent Specialists in their regions.

A representative course delivered by NSW Breakers Head Coach Gavan Twining

HIGH PERFORMANCE COACH DEVELOPMENT

High performance coach development continued at Cricket NSW for the 2021/22 season with a broad variety of programs and courses.

The performance-oriented learning model is utilised in the highperformance coach development process at Cricket NSW. This model is based upon a 70:20:10 ratio of experience, where 70% of workplace learning comes from the coaches learning through workplace experiences, 20% is aided by learning directly from others and 10% of workplace learning is undertaken via formal training. This model allows the high-performance coaches to implement their learnings at a faster rate and immediately integrate and practice their skills with the playing group they coach.

Aside from the in-situ coach development, where coaches are observed, coached, and undertake reflection at practice, in matches and in meetings, coaches undertook the following learning opportunities in the 2021/22 season: • In-tournament opportunities with Sixers and Thunder W/BBL teams

• Executive Coaching through X-Venture • Communication skills, journaling and reflection through

Sporting Declaration • Shadowing and observing high performance coaches in a variety of professional sports including the Sydney Roosters • LifeStyle Inventory 360 degree and coaching of identified coaches

• Communicating in High Performance Sport – Bond University • Empowering Athletes - Loughborough University • Positive Leadership – Swinburne University • Intermediate Excel course – Swinburne University • Quality Leadership – Leadership Management Australia

Hannah Trethewy FEMALE COACHING INTERNSHIP

In the 2020/21 season, Cricket NSW, in conjunction with Cricket Australia, funded a one-year Female Coaching Internship. The purpose of the internship was to identify and develop high potential female coaches in NSW. Three coaching interns, Sarah Aley, Lisa Griffith and Hannah Trethewy, were recruited to undertake the program. The program consisted of a coaching experience module where coaches were allocated coaching opportunities and were observed and critiqued with comprehensive feedback, a theoretical module that was based upon the ‘Fast Tracking Women’s Coaching’ program that was conducted by Sport NSW and Australian College of Physical Education (ACPE) and a selfawareness module where coaches undertook a profiling process to identify their effectiveness. Aley and Trethewy excelled and were offered fulltime positions in in our Pathways program during 2021/22. David Moore

Head of Coach Development

Sarah Aley