Christchurch Netball Centre would like to thank the Mainland Foundation for supporting development of netball players, coaches and officials in Christchurch Centre.  

Christchurch Netball Centre Junior Netball Academy .......

GIVE YOUR CHILD THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE THE BEST THEY CAN BE - the Academy is open to both boys and girls aged 8 - 15 years.

Block One has now been completed with over 120 players participating over 4 venues.

The Academy was overwhelmed with registrations and has been offered in 4 venues throughout Christchurch as follows:   

Sunday sessions: Mairehau High School , Villa Maria College, Russley Primary School.

Wednesday sessions: Westburn Primary

Starting in Block Two - Advanced ONLY session for players 13-15 years click on Registration form for further information.

Registrations are now being taken for Block Two starting February 2012.   Click here for the registration form

Please note there is a maximum of 40 player registerations per venue so first in first served basis.

Family Discounts available  -    Bulk Player Discounts available to Clubs

Junior Academy History

The Curriculum, which is designed to run for three terms of 8-9 weeks (sessions) per year, is divided into eight levels with three modules in each level.  Each session is written in detail for the coaches to follow and has been developed to progressively teach the skills appropriate to participants age and ability levels.   Each session reinforces the skills of the previous session and builds on these.  In this way skill development happens across the sessions rather than through a single session.

Each session is fast paced, interesting and fun for the players.  Participants are taught the importance of warm ups and cooling down and in between cover movement skills and fitness, ball skills, shooting, attacking and defending.  A modified game at the end of each session gives the participants the opportunity to get some hands on practice of the skills they have learned in the session.”

The Junior Netball Academy has been set up to give young netballers the chance to have specific and individual netball coaching on a regular basis throughout the year. The Academy will develop the foundation skills required by young players to assist them to progress to the top of their sport.

The Academy runs for three terms a year and is scheduled to start:

Block 1: Term 4 – Started 6th November 2011

Block 2: Term 1 – Starts 12th February 2012

Each week the curriculum covers five areas:

• Movement skills and fitness
• Ball skills
• Shooting
• Attacking
• Defending

For more information about the Academy please contact Kirsten Hill

Player Development Steps

To ensure that players are able to reach the elite level of netball it is important that coaches are aware of the developmental guidelines. The focus of training prior to the age of 19 years should be on training the player to train. This means that these years are best spent developing and improving skills.PDGNetballNZ