Yorkshire Netball s Regional Newsletter

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1 Yorkshire Netball s Regional Newsletter Welcome to the 23rd edition of the Yorkshire Netball Newsletter. If you have anything to contribute, please contact the editor: Debbie Chandley, Regional Co-ordinator yorksandhumber@englandnetball.co.uk or Tel: Issue 23 Date: March 2015 Goalden Globe Awards 2015 Nominations are now open! This is your chance to nominate someone you know who goes the extra mile for netball whether that be in coaching, umpiring, teaching or behind the scenes in admin. Nominations need to be returned to Debbie Chandley at the Regional office by Friday 1st May. Nominees will be invited to the Regional Goalden Globe Awards Dinner on the 3 July at the Thorpe Park Hotel & Spa, Thorpe Park, Leeds. Booking information to follow shortly. Keep an eye on the Regional website The Regional winner of each of the 8 competitive categories will then be put forward for the National Award, which will be held on Saturday 19 September Venue TBC Yorkshire Netball s Goalden Globe Awards Dinner Friday 3rd July 2015 Tickets available shortly National Awards: The categories are: Coach Award Grassroots Officials Award Grassroots Muriel McNally Grassroots Award Mary Bulloch Administrator Award Teacher Award Young Volunteer Award Outstanding Netball Club Award Unsung Hero Award Regional Competition 2 Youth Advisory Group Members Wanted 3 This Girl Can! 3 U17 Netball Europe in Hull 3 Nominations are also sought for the following 3 awards which will be awarded only nationally in September at the Goalden Globe Awards: England Netball Inclusive Award England Netball Rose Award England Netball National Long Service Award The Inclusive Award, Rose Award and National Long Service Award are presented at the discretion of the National Panel and as such are not guaranteed to be presented annually. These Awards are not presented at a Regional level; all nominations should be made using the specific nomination forms (found on the England Netball Website) and returned directly to Carly Beach (Development Projects Manager) at England Netball carlyb@englandnetball.co.uk or post to Carly Beach, Development Projects Manager, England Netball, Netball House, 1-12 Old Park Road, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG5 2JR. New year old EN tournament 4 Dates for your Diary/Congratulations 4 Regional Contacts/CAPS Clubs 5

2 Regional Competition 2014/2015 Senior Regional league Netball Europe U17 Hi Tech Sheffield Concord Farsley Celtic Leeds Athletic Sheffield Hallam Chevrons Harrogate Phoenix Sheffield Open Sheffield Stormers Calderdale The last Senior Regional league fixture of the season took place on Sunday 29 March at York University. The league has been very close but a huge congratulations to Hi-Tech who have won the league for the 2nd year running. This is only their 3rd year in the league, winning twice and finishing 2nd in their first year of playing! Quite an achievement! Well done to Sheffield Concord for finishing 2nd and bad luck to Farsley Celtic for losing out on second place on goal average U14 Regional league The U14 Regional league finished on the 29 March with the last fixture being played at York University. The top 3 places were close but congratulations go to Leeds Athletic on winning the league and to Chevrons for finishing 2nd. These 2 clubs will now go forward to represent the Region in the U14 National Clubs final on the 23rd and 24th May 2015, at Sport Central, University of Northumberland, Newcastle Upon Tyne. Good Luck! Leeds Athletic Chevrons Ripon Rockets Allus Wakefield Wildcats York Spectrum Sheffield Stormers Sheffield Concord U16 Regional League Leeds Athletic Huddersfield Giants Chevrons Allus Sheffield Concord Harrogate Phoenix Sheffield Stormers York Spectrum The U16 Regional league finished on the 29 March with the last fixture being played at York University. Congratulations to Leeds Athletic who came out on top and to Huddersfield Giants for finishing 2nd. Both of these West Yorkshire clubs will now go forward to represent the Region in the national finals on the on 2nd and 3rd May, at the Jean Brown Arena, Redbridge Sports Centre, Forest Road, Barkingside, Essex Good luck!

3 ISSUE 23 Youth Advisory Group Page 3 The YAG is Yorkshire Netball s Youth Advisory Group and is being created to give young people in netball a voice. Are you aged between 17 and 24? Do you love netball? Do you have the passion to help make netball bigger and better Is netball your life?+ If you answered YES to these questions then you re a perfect applicant!! For more info and to download an application visit: Closing date for applications noon, Monday 27th April 2015 This Girl Can! In West Yorkshire, 11 new level 2 coaches have been recruited and trained to deliver back to netball sessions across the community. The coaches have been delivering the sessions in line with West Yorkshire Sport s county wide promotion of women s activities through This Girl Can. With sessions running across the county around 200 women getting back to netball since January. Regular attendees have also been rewarded with their own This Girl Can t-shirt These Girl Can! U17 Netball Europe This year the Netball Europe 2015 Championship was held at Airco Arena, Hull on the 6th 7th & 8th March 2015 Teams from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland played in the Championship section and Dubai, Switzerland, Malta and Gibraltar played in the Development section. Volunteers... Yorkshire were asked to host the Netball Europe 2015 event at the Airco Arena in Hull and Humberside County Netball Association provided the volunteers and what amazing volunteers they were! Ball girls and England Netball Rose Buddy Mascots were from local junior netball clubs. Two young Reckitts volunteers, Bethany Sowersby (aged 10) and Sam Evans (aged 14) were there for the full 3 days and took on every role possible and did a great job. The older volunteers were tweeting, videoing, ticket selling and even filling up the ice-baths for the players after the game! Volunteers also manned the Cancer Research UK stall, asking for donations to Guess which cupcake has the biggest number of chocolate chips, selling CRUK pink shoe-laces and asking for donations for programmes. The amount raised was 480 for Cancer Research. Pauline Hardy, Humberside Netball Development Officer said our volunteer workforce are amazing people who are passionate about netball and give up their time to help and support events such as this and Yorkshire Jets Superleague matches held at the Airco Arena in Hull. More information from Pauline Hardy or pauline.hardy@englandnetball.co.uk

4 Page 4 Page 4 Brand new England Netball s year olds Tournament An exciting new tournament has been added to the netball calendar this summer as England Netball host their inaugural Netball Open. This is a competition, specifically for year olds which will take place over two days (accommodation is not provided within the entry fee) and is open to any affiliated member of England Netball. You can play within your existing Club or even form a team specifically for this event (please note all individuals will need to be affiliated members but not necessarily to the same club). Groups of individuals from the same affiliated Schools, Colleges and Universities can also enter a team. The playing schedule will be determined once entries close, but it is likely to be split into a cup and plate competition based on ability. The competition will be played outdoors. This year the tournament takes place at the Redbridge Sports Centre in Essex over the weekend of the 4th and 5th of July. Entry is now open to enter a team and closes on Friday 5th June. To be eligible all players must be between the ages of 16 and 19 years old, as of midnight on 31st August / 1st September Squads must contain a minimum of seven and maximum of 12 players. Each team must have an over 19 year old, non-playing adult assigned as responsible for the team welfare at the competition. For more information and to enter the competition, head across to the 'Competition' section of the England Netball website. Dates for your Diary Dates for your Diary 1 May: Closing date for Goalden Globe nominations 2 & 3 May: U16 National Clubs finals at the Jean Brown Arena, Redbridge Sports Centre, Essex 9 May: Defence workshop at EIS, Sheffield 17 May & 27 June: UKCC Level 1 at Bishop Burton College 23 & 24 May: U14 National Clubs finals at Sports central, University of Northumberland, Newcastle Upon Tyne 31 May: B Award umpire workshop at EIS Sheffield 13 & 14 June, 4,5 &26 July: UKCC Level 2 at Beverley Longcroft College 3 July: Goalden Globe Awards Dinner at the Thorpe Park Hotel & Spa, Leeds 4 & 5 July: EN tournament year olds at Redbridge Sorts Centre Essex 9 January 2016: Yorkshire Coaching Conference at EIS Sheffield VACANCY DEVELOPMENT OFFICER (PROJECTS) Salary range: 20,000 25,000 Hours: 25 hours per week vacancies.html Congratulations! Following selection trials for the 2015 National Academy programme held on Saturday 28th March (previously known as England U19/17) at the E.I.S, the following Yorkshire athletes were successful Imogen Allison, Rosie Harris, Claudia Heath, Alexandra Shipley Selected into the National Potential Group was Hannah Gorman CAPS Congratulations Leeds YMCA achieved their CAPS Yorkshire Terriers and Barnsley Aces achieved their 4 year re accreditation in March Congratulations to the following for passing their B Umpire award: Maggie Birkenshaw passed 6 January Jody Ivel passed 18 February Pam Hirlam passed 18 February Elaine Maughan passed 28 February National Schools success! Well done to Greenhead College for winning the U19 National Schools Final at Whitby High school on the 15 March; To the Grammar School at Leeds for finishing 2nd in the U16 section and 5th in the U14 section

5 Regional Office: English Institute of Sport Coleridge Road Sheffield S9 5DA Telephone: Regional Manager: Lucy Archer Tel: Performance Pathway Coach: Alex Kirk Tel: Netball Development Community Coach (Leeds): Nathan Jones Tel: Regional Co-ordinator: Debbie Chandley English Institute of Sport, Coleridge Road, Sheffield S9 5DA Tel: Netball Development Officers: Rebecca Williams (West Yorkshire) Tel: Pauline Hardy (Humberside) Tel: Ian.Mcara (North Yorkshire) Tel: Nicola Squires (South Yorkshire) Tel: CAPS Clubs in the Yorkshire Netball Region West Yorkshire: Chapeltown Community Fusion Huddersfield Giants Leeds Athletic Leeds YMCA Shipley Twinkles Wakefield Phoenix Wakefield Wildcats Whitcliffe Yorkshire Terriers South Yorkshire: Barnsley Aces - Dearne Valley Netball of Excellence Sheffield Concord Sheffield Stormers Humberside (including NE Lincs): Allus Brigg Chevrons Goole Kingston Reckitt Benckiser Whitecross Wilberforce North Yorkshire: Elvington Haxby Hi-Lites Millers Osbaldwick Harrogate Phoenix Rawcliffe Ripon Rockets Rufforth