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Coaching
David Lippard is appointed Technical Director
for Coaching (TDC). The TDC is responsible for
up-skilling district and club coaches through
the PNZ road show, Train the Trainer
The TDC will coordinate the activities and
ongoing training of district coaches and develop
and maintain a national database.
The TDC will be responsible for the governance
of this portfolio and report to PNZ on outcomes
and against the objectives yearly.
It is also the responsibility of the TDC to
establish a budget for the programme and present
this to PNZ for approval yearly.
The TDC will:
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Ensure joint affiliation and subscription with Petanque Australia
to CIEP, training school, France
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Be responsible for having district coaches in place by
July 2008
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Be responsible for having coaches, at club level, by the
end of the 2010 season
Training the Trainer has already occurred in the Central District and in
Wellington.
South island is scheduled for June 2008
Representative Teams
Murray porter is appointed
Technical Director of Representative teams
(TDR). The TDR is responsible for the
coordination and compilation of a representative
squad from which teams will emerge from each
group (seniors, females, open and youth)
The TDR will:
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develop the format for four regional
training days (TBC) and determine the criteria
by which players will be measured. This will be
part of the feeder system to determine
representation (the other part being tournament
performance)
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be responsible for ensuring that
communication and training of these criteria
and the format is provided to the regional
coaches
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select the representative squad/s and
confirm representative squad camps
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select representative teams and determine
the appropriate international tournament/s for
each representative team
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establish key performance indicators by
which the representative team can be monitored,
measured and realigned as necessary
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appoint the most appropriate coach and
manager for each representative team and ensure
that they work in harmony as a team.
The manager will be responsible for:
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Overseeing
communication of progress to PNZ members
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Overseeing
funding of the representative team
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Overseeing
booking and travel and uniform arrangement for
the team
The coach will be responsible for:
The vision of the TDR is to
create a complete team over time; this vision
must not be short term.
Tournaments
Trevor Neilson is appointed Technical Director
of Tournaments (TDT) already. This role will
expand to include the compilation of a national
calendar, which will balance the demands of
district and club requirements with the feeder
system for representation.
A national standard will be developed for each
tournament including:
For a competition to qualify for the major
classification it will have to comply with the
national standards.
The TDT will also be responsible for
administering the representative squad camps.
Representative squads
The process for developing a representative
squad/s will be through a feeder system, thereby
allowing equal opportunity to all those
interested in reaching squad level.
Feeder system
Step one - Regional training days (4 days, pre- season) will be established
where players will be skills tested and measured
accordingly. The measurements will be sent,
electronically to the TDR for analysis.
Step Two - Inter-regional competition will be the first level of
representation. Players will be scored and all
scoring will be sent to TDR for analysis.
Step Three – Performance compared to peers, in major tournaments indicated on the
national calendar
Step Four – TDR will invite players to attend a representative squad camp.
Squad camp(s)
The format and content of a
squad training camp will be developed with the
TDR and administered by the TDT. These camps
will include skills testing, teamwork,
application, and tactical decision making. The
TDT will be responsible for appointing a team of
helpers for each camp and ensuring that they are
appropriately briefed as to their role and
responsibility for that camp.
All measurement and
information will be forwarded electronically to
the TDR for analysis.
Youth Development
The position of Youth Development Officer (YDO)
has been created to ensure that we place
importance on succession planning.
The age band for this is be 30 and below.
Australia is keen to compete against NZ in this
age group and an Australia- vs. New Zealand
tournament is scheduled for November 2008 An
objective of this tournament is that if all goes
well, we include this as a third group for the
2009 Trans Tasman Challenge.
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