Development

Taranaki mixed player Daragh Hamilton-Davis (GA) tries to intercept during the Taranaki Invitational Tournament at the TSB Stadium

Coaches

Online learning took a step forward and included Core Coaching Seven Steps, Community Coach Award modules, and the popular Mother Earth futureFERN coaches and Star Helpers with 109 participants attending.

There were also specific workshops at Hawera Intermediate and Spotswood College to upskill in the coaching of netball fundamentals.

Netball New Zealand also developed its learning and development portal in addition to local resources. This ensured that all levels of the game are reached and have access to coaching opportunities with continued support and mentorship from the Netball Taranaki Development team.

Coaches play a vital role in all sport and we are very appreciative of all our coaches, who strive to give players the resources they need to improve and develop.

New Plymouth Old Boys coach Ann Rodgers during a break in a premier match at the TSB Stadium

Players

The year started with the Preparing for Reps programme, followed by pre-season tournaments, the full season of premier, satellite competitions (senior, secondary schools, junior and futureFERNS), Player Development Programmes and Satellite Cup.

The Player Development Programme is an extension programme for the Year 7 & 8 players and focuses on technical and tactical elements of netball, athlete development and fundamental movement skills. Following on from this programme, Netball Taranaki offers Satellite Cup for juniors and Preparing for Reps for high school aged players and above.

This year, Netball Taranaki facilitated six PDP sessions across the year with a total of 85 players involved across the New Plymouth/Waitara/Inglewood and Stratford/Hawera combined areas.

Later in the year, we continued our successful Satellite Cup programme. A total of 107 players participated in this programme in New Plymouth, Waitara, Stratford and Hawera. This programme received outstanding support from players, parents, coaches, and umpires and successfully continued to promote netball, fundamental skills, build friendships and a love of the game.

Netball Taranaki thank all the following people for their support and contribution to the development of netball throughout the year.

Robin McLaughlin Margaret Veale Phillipa Hamilton-Davis Kirsty Raven Nicky Stotle Laura Seed

Dave Arnold Robert Manu

Karlena Schwass Joanne Donald Shereece Walker Rachel Brett Kerie Smith Jane Parker Donna Cowie

Stacey Dallinger Donna Plasmeyer Darleena Christie Tiaan Owen Kate Baxter

Carole Door Araanā Te Arikitama Sarah Mead Jorja Donald Sarah Hanson D’arna Te Pau Konui Jamie Te Pau Konui

Zara Eru Bella Pebble Hollie Radford Cheryl Patu Zoe Hall Ellie Kowalewski Kym Price Kelsey McCandlish Nicola Walsh

Amy Jordan Nicola McClung Sharnelle Tweeddale Chrissy Moriarty Nikki Waitere

Satellite Cup players after a session at the Waiwhakaiho Courts, New Plymouth

With a focus on participation, inclusion, skill development and ultimately to have fun in a supportive environment the Mother Earth futureFERNS programme is modified to suit each age group, “netball that grows with our players”. As the players grow from year to year so does the game modifying rules, equipment, court size and number of participants on the court.

With interest between Waitara, New Plymouth and south to Hawera, Netball Taranaki provided workshops for coaches, star helpers and parents to develop their knowledge and understanding before the season started. These workshops focused on modified rules information, equipment changes, the general running of each satellite and promotion of participation.

In 2020 the Mother Earth futureFERNS program grew to 270 teams throughout the region. We are proud of the development throughout the futureFERNS age groups and cannot wait to see them developing and transitioning in to the 7-aside game.

The Mother Earth futureFERNS aims to give these young players a lifelong love of the game, encourage physical activity and create new friendships.

Thank you to our coaches, starhelpers and umpires for giving up their own time to take part in Mother Earth futureFERNS programme, this would not have been possible without you all.

Also, a big thanks also to YoGet and Pita Pit New Plymouth for supporting our futureFERNS programme this year.

Our MotherEarth futureFERNS players with goodies from YoGet New Plymouth

Umpires and Bench Officials

Taranaki umpires continued to service the game. We were very proud of our officials who showed commitment during the season covering futureFERNS to Premier grades. Taranaki has a total of 1239 qualified umpires.

There were several umpire development opportunities during the year, namely the Good Call Rules workshops. This gave potential, new and existing umpires growth opportunities. We had both face-to-face and online classes including Central Zone workshop that covered obstruction, contact, game management, self-analysis, post-match discussion and techniques.

Throughout the year we had four Centre Awards, four Centre Endorsements, three Zone Awards and two Zone Endorsements.

Thanks to our Premier Umpire Coach/Assessors: Karen Eliason, Sandy Phear, Joan Hodson, Jane Hickmott, AJ Brown, Theresa Strachan and Darleena Christie and our other umpire coaches.

During lockdown, ANZ Championship umpires from the Central Zone held a local Q&A Zoom session called ‘Supper with the Squaddies’ on 12 May. Umpires and those interested could attend the online session hosted by Netball Central Zone’s Josh Bowring, Ken Metekingi, Gareth Fowler, Myron Elkington, Jess Lea and Marlissa Howard. It was a chance to ask questions to the umpires and hear about their experiences.

Supper with the Squaddies Zoom session

Netball Taranaki had 14 bench officials who were involved in our premier competition. Without these personnel, premier netball would not be possible. The committed team kept the scoresheets, statistics, and time for matches in New Plymouth, Stratford and Hawera.

Thanks to Adelaide Burgess, Barbara Digby, Carole Door, Rose King, Quantessa Martin-Todd, Phillip Tamatea, Sue Turahui, Nicola Walsh, Greg Burgess, Rae West, Diane Chapman, Parengaio Huhu, Clare Dombroski and Sandra Wells for their commitment.

2020 Umpire Achievements

Centre Awards

Arlo Beckett Bella Peebles Nicole Chadwick

Zone Awards

Darleena Christie Jorja Donald Nicole Stevenson

Centre Endorsements

Ian Webster Maria Robinson Caleb Gibbons

Zone Endorsements

Karleena Schwass Jenni Busby

Centre Awarded with Zone and NZ Theory

Kelly Richards

Netball Taranaki bench officials and umpire Jane Hickmott during the Premier 2 final

Bilingual Umpiring

Netball Taranaki was excited to present new initiatives in 2020 and were proud to announce the introduction of bilingual officiating in netball with the inclusion of Te Reo Māori.

We encouraged umpires, teams, and the netball community to speak Te Reo Māori.

During a match, an umpire would state the infringement and sanction in both English and Māori. This encourages diversity, culture, and a larger presence in the sport.

Translations and techniques are provided in umpiring workshops, print material available at the control rooms and new signs in the tower at the Waiwhakaiho Courts and online.

A series of translation videos by our local umpires were posted on social media, shared around the country and are available online.

NETBALL TARANAKI LIFE MEMBERS

Miss M Riordan* 1933 Mrs M Templar* 1937 Mrs D Kohn* 1944 Miss H Tarry* 1936 Mr T J Linehan* 1937 Mrs D Knuckey* 1958 Miss D Britland* 1937 Mrs D Dippie* 1939 Miss N Rickard* 1963