Dear Churinga Saints Family

Welcome to the 2014 Season all returning players and to our new families this season. I thank you for your understanding regarding our grading selection process this winter due to the cancelation of our grading day due to the hot weather. I would like to thank the following Selection Committee Members, Leanne Higgins, Jenny Dodd, Jeanette Triantafillou and Kay Noble with their help in selection of teams with approx. 125 players (around 15 new players) this season for the tireless hours of putting teams together along with other requirements for registration. No teams can be changed or players placed into different teams now that the players have been registered. If teams are short on game day a player may be asked to play in a different team, but this process will be done through your coach.

 

We have registered 13 teams this winter and I would like to thank the following coaches for volunteering their time this season: 

Maddie Dodd            Open  Team 1

Wendy O’Toole        Open Team 2

Lisa Dugdale            U17     Team 3

Marissa Plant            U17     Team 4

Lucy Badrock            U17     Team 5

Dion Vandenhout     U15     Team 6

Nicki Sheehan         U15     Team 7

Kaye Noble               U15     Team 8

Jane Collins             U13     Team 9

Lyn Tull                      U11     Team 10

Sally Hiney               U11     Team 11

Bridget Black            U11     Team 12

Elissa O’Brien          U9       Team 13

 

All coaches have received their teams and will be in contact with you soon if not already regarding your team and times for training. Again this year training will be held at Aquinas College gymnasium, Great Ryrie Street, Ringwood and the first game is on Saturday 15 March. Fixtures will be available soon and you can check your game time via the following link http://www.foxsportspulse.com/club_info.cgi?c=1-191-36991-0-0&a=TEAMS& please remember your team number for your fixture as we have a few teams in the same age levels. Please contact your coach as soon as possible if you are unable to attend training.

Training is a very important part of your game and helps with the following:

Core stability and balance helps with almost every aspect of attack and defence. Whether you're a shooter standing on one leg, a defender leaning in to guard the ball, or you just like to be able to leap and change position quickly, balance and core stability help improve your game and help you avoid injury.

Explosive speed is needed to sprint into position, change direction suddenly and to leap up to intercept a ball. It's all about improving your power and your leg strength.

Endurance is essential if you want to maintain your pace for the whole game.

A player needs to keep muscles and ligaments strong and flexible, so a cross-training regime that incorporates strength and balance training is essential.

Grading will be the same as Spring season no sections until grading had finished by Round 4. Times of games may change every week due to a win or a loss. Points are kept after grading, this grading seemed to work better in spring season.

I would like to thank the following umpires this season:

 Bridget Black

Madeleine Black

Sarah Black

Lucy Breccley

Cassie Carson

Briannon Dodd

Maddison Dodd

Celine Dodd

Alyssa Hawkins

1   Matilda Higgins 

E  Elizabeth Mason

     Kaye Noble

1   Heidi Wojciehowski

 

 

Without all these volunteers mentioned above we have no club. As a member of our club we will require your assistance to help with either our BBQ at Bunnings (Easter Monday) or at the canteen at the courts a date will be advised soon.  A canteen roster for our club will be sent out soon. Please register your help if you have not done canteen duty in the past or if you would like to volunteer again,  any time you have is most appreciated.  As a club this is a requirement from Lilydale and Yarra Valley Netball Association (LYVNA) that we help in the canteen for a day or half a day of the season.

AGM and Presentation Night will be held on 13 September at Sacred Heart Primary. Please keep this date free. More details are to come regarding this event.

 I look forward to a great season ahead and I’ll see you around the courts.

  

‘GO SAINTS’

 

Marissa Plant

President

Churinga Saints Netball Club