By Chris Bullen, HP Coaching Team, High Performance Sport New Zealand (HPSNZ)
Recently, the Board of High Performance Sport NZ signed off on an eight-year High Performance Coaching Plan. The plan is dedicated to ensuring that our high performance athletes have the coaching they need to win medals at Olympics, Paralympics and World Championships.
More →Netball New Zealand CoachForce Manager Adrienne Morrin was awarded a 2011 Prime Minister’s Scholarship from SPARC. The scholarship allowed her to spend four days with Skill Acquisition Specialist Damian Farrow, in Australia.
Farrow has worked with a wide range of sub-elite and elite level Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) programs and National Sporting Organisations, [...]
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New Zealand Cricket’s new Director of Cricket John Buchanan is making some formative changes to the way the sport is run in this country.
The former Australian National Coach, Buchanan took up the new role in May. Based in Christchurch, he reports to NZC’s Chief Executive and is the architect of their new high performance [...]
More →Malcom Gladwell, bestselling author of The Tipping Point, says top athletes succeed by listening to instinct rather than by consciously relying on technique.
Gladwell talks about his conversations with legendary tennis coach Vic Braden, and how Braden identified that top tennis players could not accurately say how they were so good at the game.
The players would [...]
More →Two years before New Zealand hosted the Rugby World Cup, SPARC invested $1.5 million in the Rugby New Zealand 2011 Volunteer Programme. The aim was to see 5500 volunteers trained, ready for the tournament and able to be the face of the event for visitors and New Zealand fans.
SPARC also wanted to see a [...]
More →Netball New Zealand’s Adrienne Morrin was awarded a 2011 Prime Ministers Scholarship from SPARC. The Scholarship allowed her to spend four days with Skill Acquisition Specialist Damian Farrow, in Australia.
Farrow has worked with a wide range of sub-elite and elite level Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) programs and National Sporting Organisations, including Cricket Australia, [...]
More →This video (which has been in the industry for some time but is new to the SPARC website) was produced by filming real New Zealand coaches in their own environment in real coaching situations. It shows a variety of coaching approaches being used with different types of athletes.
It includes comments from interviews with the [...]
More →The Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) is an American national non-profit with the mission to provide all youth and high school athletes a positive, character-building youth sports experience. It specifically addresses the high youth sports drop rate. PCA says it has worked with more than a million youth athletes since its 1998 launch at Stanford University.
This video, [...]
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Andrej Lemanis is an Australian who Kiwis love. His six seasons coaching the SKYCITY New Zealand Breakers, culminating with their first Australian NBL championship title, have made him synonymous with New Zealand basketball.
As head coach Lemanis has steadily guided the Breakers up the Aussie NBL table from near the bottom to [...]
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