ENGLAND NETBALL COMPETITION STRUCTURE

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ENGLAND NETBALLCOMPETITION STRUCTURE
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Quality experience, accessible for all

• England Netball wants
• Better opportunity for more people
• Appropriate netball competition fitting with LTAD
  and player pathway
• To grow netball - club emphasis with school base
• Develop skills of young athlete, therefore need
  more clubs for them to go into so there is more
  appropriate competition
• Further develop coach, umpires, officials,
  volunteers to support new structure

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LTAD Principles

• Concerns with current sport systems
• Young athletes under-train over-compete
• Inappropriate competition schedule is
  superimposed on young athletes
• 5 Reasons EN introduced LTAD
• Guide planning for optimal performance of
  athletes in order for England Netballers to be
  the best they can be
• Eliminate gaps in the current Netball development
  pathway
• Establish a clear Netball development pathway
• Realign and integrate the programmes for
  developing Netball athletes and Netball in
  England
• Provide a planning tool, based on scientific
  research and empirical evidence for coaches and
  administrators

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England NetballAthlete Development
ModelIncorporating LTAD
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Change of focus from counties

• Every child attends school, so we need to invest
  in schools competition framework
• Sporting ethos towards club development
  underpinned by Sport England Funding
• EN Senior competition structure is clubs based,
  junior structure needs to mirror it
• LTAD principles vital for young players to
  achieve their potential
• County competition was too much on top of school
  club
• Aim for league competition with longer matches,
  rather than short tournament matches

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Senior Competition Structure
Super League
Premier Divisions 1 2
9 x Regional Leagues
Area / County Leagues
District / Local Leagues
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National Schools Competition Framework

• September 2005 - 20 SSP with Competition Managers
  not teacher, in 5 CSP, to facilitate running of
  sport competition
• Netball is 1st year focus sport in all 20 SSP
  all 31 sports have signed up to this
• Netballs new structure reflects the national
  schools competition structure which is why it has
  been chosen as a pilot sport

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Primary Education

• Emphasis on delivery of FUNdamental stage
• Ages 5 7 multiskill activity / festivals
• Ages 7 9 multsikill / multisport activity /
  festivals
• Ages 9 11 High Five netball leagues
• Focus delivery on the state sector, through
  School Sport Partnerships to include Independent
  schools
• Menu of options for delivery, and resource
  support
• County Netball Coordinators / CSPs to support
• High Five compulsory in clubs for CAPS
  accreditation

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Secondary Education

• Principal objective to ensure a high-quality,
  exciting and appropriate experience
• Emphasis on
• Ongoing local competition, culminating in
  festivals or tournaments
• Intra-school netball from Year 7 upwards
• Retain 2 x National Schools tournaments, for
  Years 8 / 9 and Years 10 / 11
• Create a single National Under-18 tournament for
  schools, college and club teams

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Secondary Education
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Junior Youth Club competition
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Academies/RTDP

• Satellite and County academies to run in every
  county to provide individual training
• Regional Talent Development Programme being
  set-up in each Region, as the next stage of
  talent development
• RHS selects from nominations from
  academies/schools/clubs
• Coaches/teachers attend PSW to nominate

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Talent Programme for Youth

• Aspiring for better competition and training for
  all players at all levels

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University College Netball

• As currently, through BUSA
• England Netball to establish BUSA Sports
  Management Group to drive forward
• Support structures for university clubs, e.g.,
  coaching, umpiring, leadership
• Provision of competitive opportunities for
  players not selected for BUSA teams
• Encouragement of intra-mural netball
• Similarly with British Colleges Sports Association

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Implementation - timescales
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Organisation - by whom?

• Schools
• High 5 leagues/festivals
• School leagues
• Put schools forward for county round of National
  schools
• Clubs
• Play in local leagues
• Can progress through
• county, regional/area, premier leagues
• County Netball Association
• County round of National schools
• County leagues (determine own structure)

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Organisation - by whom?

• TSG (or separate region committees)
• Regional round of National schools
• Regional leagues (determine own structure)
• Regional Talent Development Programme
• Regional Screening Days (RHS and qualified
  coaches/teachers)
• England Netball
• Will produce guidelines on best practise by
  autumn 2005. Setting up National Group to decide
  - all regions having input

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Questions
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Club Development Model
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Franchises

• Elite Competition
• Home Training
• Development of players, coaches umpires
• Junior elite teams aspiring to high level play

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Practical application

• 10yr old- H5 in SSP league and/or club.
• U14 county player in club competition Academies
  for individual skills training
• U16 player in club competition Academy or RTDP
• U18 player in open club competition or age group
• Requires good club development within County
  Region so good competition available
• Good clubs CAPS club provide mentoring
  support to develop other strong clubs to provide
  regular good competition. (Counties not always
  able to provide good competition at present)