Coaching and Development Committee Report
May 2003
This report was delivered to HBA and HSBA at their AGMs in June03.
(Links to End of year League Results at the bottom)
Coaching
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Record 18 Herts Leaders
on course
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There
are 98 registered coaches in Herts, compared with 96 a year ago. However, this is in spite of running two
Leaders Courses of 12 and 18 participants and a Coach Part 1 of 12 participants
this year. So overall there has been a loss and gain of some 40 coaches. Most of those lost are juniors taking
Leaders Award as part of an A-Level course and who rarely use the
qualification. However, most of our
regular and new coaches are very active.
The Leaders and Coach Part 1 courses organised in October
were subsidised by an Awards for All grant.
In return for the subsidy the attendees provided 5 and 10 sessions,
respectively, of free junior coaching. The
arrangement brought real benefits to badminton in Herts: some examples of this
are:
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1 In Watford: Two CP1 coaches, Kim Waddup and
Andy Roberts, are now working in this area where we have had a lack of coaches
for several years: Richard Doling is utilising their talents wherever possible.
2 In Dacorum: Sue Edmanson are establishing
their Junior Club and will be helping Frances Morrison with the junior cell in
Berkhamsted.
3 In North Herts: Jonathan Pancutt, previously
a Leader and Junior County Squad player has expanded his coaching activities, helping
Bob Green at Baldock junior sessions, and me with a GCSE class at Knights
Templar School. Jeff Gentry, a teacher
at Willbury School, Letchworth has increased his already large junior coaching
involvement. Kevin Leader and Dave
Wright in Royston BC are now expanding their club juniors.
4 In Stevenage: Robin Wade has establish a Junior
Coaching session at Shephall Sports Centre, Stevenage with the help of Jeff
Gentry and Dave Bartlett.
5 In Welwyn Hatfield: CP1 Helen Walker, previously a
Leader, with her brother Barnaby (Leader), set up an adult session at Hatfield
Leisure Centre which is oversubscribed.
Unfortunately they will be going to University and leaving the area at
the end of the summer.
6 In East Herts: Cathy Wheatley, Steve
Hummersone, and Jez Donaldson, Linda Clarke separately funded are developing
Albury BC. Doug Clark is helping All
Saints Juniors, with EH Herts Youth Games squad and elsewhere in the district.
In the meantime many other coaches in Herts have been very
busy, too.
Coaches Masterclass
A postponed coaches masterclass has now been
organised for 15th June:
World Class Start Manager-coach, Jens Gril will be providing the session
on ‘What juniors should know at U11, U13, U15 and how to coach it.’. The small fee for the course, £12, is only
possible due to Gill Bartlett offering to cross subsidise it through work she
is doing for the BAoE.
Four Herts coaches (Steve Willis, Ewan
Harnetty, Dave &
Gill Bartlett,) attended the National Coaches Conference at Milton Keynes in November
and found the sessions (including one by Jens Grill) extremely useful and
enjoyable. This event is likely to be
held annually.
Coaching and our County Badminton Development Officer
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Richard Doling, our County Development Officer, is coaching
Herts junior better players and through the BAofE, World Class Start juniors at
Haberdashers Askes School. He has also
set up several schools sessions particularly in SW Herts and has coached
several personally.
Richard would be glad to visit clubs to provide hints and
tips, play with club members, provide coaching or discuss development – an
offer not to be missed (tel: 01923 223896).
Richard has established a Coaching Agency to bring coaches
and clients into a more professional arrangement. Many of Richard’s coaching activities are integral with
Development projects, see below.
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Development
Facilities
This season John Warner Sports Centre opened in Broxbourne
and Stanstead Abbotts have moved in and expanded. Dave Bartlett represented Badminton at the open day in
February. East Herts bid for a new 6
court facility at St Mary’s School, Bishops Stortford failed to obtain Sport
England support owing to the suggestion that the community could use the centre
at Stansted but at least partly we suspect owing to reduction of Lottery
funding available. However, St Mary’s
School are going ahead with a 4-court facility and will welcome community use:
advice and documents have been to Tony Barrance, governor, on the project. North Herts’ bid for a centre at Royston
also looks less likely, decisions are imminent.
Centre of Badminton for Herts
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At the University of Hertfordshire the 12-court ‘Centre of
badminton for Herts’ is on target for opening in August – the sports complex is
called Herts Sports Village. There has
been agreement with UoH management for HSBA and HBA to block book 30 Sundays
from September 1st to April 30th : HSBA U11 and U13
squads plan to use Wednesdays and U17 squad on Thursdays. Provision for county practice is being
discussed. A Coach Part1 course has
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People and Clubs
SW Herts
Richard Doling has continued his initial work in Three
Rivers and the current sessions he coaches at the Royal Masonic School are
likely to be expanded via an Awards for All bid for summer coaching courses
into a full-blown junior club in September.
Through his discussions with Watford SDO expansion of junior sessions
are likely there too. Similarly St
Albans are keen for him to help with schools in this District. He has assisted coaches in the area who are
themselves now setting up coaching sessions and/or clubs.
West Herts
Frances Morrison continues to develop junior badminton in
the Berkhamsted area and several of her players and helpers have now qualified
as coaches. She is also forming links
between her Bridgewater school (where she teaches) with others in the
area. Richard Doling is providing
sessions at Thomas Corum School, Berkhamsted.
North Herts
This district continues to expand its developmental progress
and many more juniors are coming into HSBA tournaments and squads. Bob Green continues to coach at Knights
Templar SC, Baldock and HBS SC, Hitchin and was the organiser for the NH junior
tournament where the participants topped 100 (an increase of 40% on last year). We would like to put the District Cell at
Hitchin Junior BC at HBS SC on a firmer footing with more members and an option
for higher level coaching. Heath Hall
are desperate for facilities in NH - they currently use Stevenage LC.
East Herts
Stanstead Abbotts moved into the new John Warner centre last
summer has allowed them to expand and continue the great work they are
doing. Bishops Stortford BC are
desperate for new facilities (see Facilities section, above.
Our new club, Albury, is the most remarkable. Starting in August last year they had 4
members and now have 41 of whom 31 are juniors! Their Awards for All grant has been of great assistance.
St Albans
Following
Richard’s meeting with Mike Cook, Sandringham school, an initial 2 sessions per
week from 11- 12 then 12- 1 are likely to begin at the start of the new
academic year.
Stevenage
As mentioned above, the new Shephall SC is now home to
Saturday junior coaching session run by two new Leaders from St John’s BC. SDO Matt Warren, Stevenage have provided
£990 to HBA to fund coaching to all ten secondary schools and free KS 3&4
coaching packs to all the teachers that take up the offer.
Three Rivers
Richard has progressed the Active Communities project in
South Oxhey and has provided coaches for the courses in this project.
Watford
As mentioned above, Richard is working with the SDO, Sarah
Calcutt, and as well as the Awards for All, above, has started sessions at
Cassiobury Junior School, Watford.
Welwyn Hatfield
Swifts JBC, Gosling BC, and the Goode’s Academy continue to
produce badminton players with considerable successes in their own bailiwicks.
County wide
Across the county more clubs are affiliating to HBA some
that do not currently play in our leagues such as Cam Gears in North Herts,
Hastoe, Dacorum or not in leagues at all such as Cottered and Albury. We are grateful of their support and welcome
any suggestions to improve our services.
Herts
Youth Games
Herts Youth Games included badminton again with some 85
children from 8 Districts participating in the finals in May 02. Badminton was again included this year: Dacorum came first, Welwyn Hatfield second
and North Herts third. Each year it is
a struggle for those Districts where we haven’t got a strong club structure to
find teams, however, it is worthwhile for those who do participate and for us,
generally, in maintaining a high profile of our sport.
Our website continues to expand thanks in particular
to various contributors. We try to
maintain information of use to players, club organisers
and coaches as well as news items.
Herts County PE Conference
Gill and Dave Bartlett attended this conference representing
HBA-HSBA and we were the only sport to have a promotion stand. We raffled a racket thus obtainimg the names
of 45 teachers interested in badminton.
The racket was won by Jill Eaton, Schools Sports Co-ordinator for
Marriotts Sports College, Stevenage. Many more of the 200 teachers attending
took away some of our information on badminton. This is a very worthwhile event to promote our sport, which will
hopefully be annually.
Herts Sports Partnership
HSP has the backing of all those involved in sport in Herts,
from District Chief Leisure Officers, Sports Development Officers, County PE,
Local Authority and County Council councilors, sports facilities managers,
clubs, league organisers and coaches.
The recent inclusion of Active Sport in HSP meetings is bringing coherence and
eventually, if a full merger happens, resources to sports organisation, activities and plans. Badminton is well represented at HSP by Malcolm
Fraser (Chairman HBA), Marion Conway (Swifts JBC), Ken Abbott (Lingwood
BC), Janet Stephens (Ward Freman BC),
Gill Bartlett (Gosling BC), Bob Green (Hitchin BC), myself (HSP Steering
Committee). This will help ensure their clubs and badminton generally within
the county, maximise opportunities. You are very welcome to join.
Badminton in ‘Partnership Sports’
Herts Badminton is in Partnership Sport (PS) a sub-section
of Herts Active Sports starting May 03. This will allow coaches and clubs to
compete on quality with those of other large sports. PS will fund our coaches to obtain coach accreditation through
attending the subsidised Child Protection and Equity courses. Club officials will similarly be funded to
attend these and Developing Your Club sessions leading to Club Accreditation,
see next.
BISI Club Accreditation
In April this year the BAofE launched the Badminton In
Schools/Society Initiative Club Accreditation scheme (levels of Registration,
Bronze, Silver and Gold) encompassing Sport England’s Clubmark (as ‘BAoE BISI
Silver’ level). Herts AS Club &
Coach Development team will help us help clubs attain these accreditations.
Gill & Dave have helped the BAofE develop the schemes. All Herts junior
clubs will receive information and accreditation packs in July.
Young Volunteer of the Year and Young Coach of the Year
In recognition of the efforts and impact of juniors who have
helped badminton in Herts we have established two Awards: ‘Young Volunteer of the Year’ has been won
by Ceri Lumb who has this year (as in the past) contributed to significant help
with junior tournaments. ‘Young Coach
of the Year’ has been won by Helen Walker who has helped with junior coaching
in Herts as a Leader and more recently Coach Part1: she, with her brother
Barnaby set up an adults coached session at Hatfield. HSBA and HBA wish to thank them both for their significant
contributions. Presentations will take
place, 28th June, at Swifts AGM where they were both members.
In conclusion we, the Development Committee, recognise and
thank all coaches, clubs, helpers who have made this a very successful year.
Season 2003 – 04
The coming season will be at least as busy as last year for
Herts members. As well as all our usual
activities there are the challenges of:
1 A Coaches Masterclass by World Class Start manager, Jens
Grill – 15th June [Post
Report: 26 Herts
coaches attended a very inspiring and useful session].
2 The opening of our Herts Centre of Badminton at Herts
Sports Village in September and the consequent new opportunities and events
such as an Open Day 6th September, possible England v Holland in November and
Inter-county Premier match February 14 & 15th (confirmed).
| 4 Roll out of BISI Club Accreditation scheme starting in
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3 Participation in Partnership Sports
projects: Club and Coach development (see Neil Deans’ talk at the HBA AGM)
5 Increasing Membership Project starting in September
The Development Committee for 2002-03 comprised: Dave
Bartlett, Chairman, Gill Bartlett, Duncan Conway (HSBA), Richard Doling and
Malcolm Fraser
League
Results for 2002-03
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HSBA (junior) leagues
- Herts County League
Annual Review for 2001-02
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