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It has been a very busy and productive few months for Cricket Coach Development in Ireland.
It has been a very busy and productive few months for Cricket Coach Development in Ireland.
From grassroots to high performance coaching qualifications, to workshops, shadowing and mentoring opportunities, First Aid and Safeguarding Children courses and new coach development strategies – the Coach Development Team have hopefully been able to meet most of the needs of our coaching workforce and we look forward to the next few months and fitting in more of the same before the 2016 cricket season begins in earnest next month!

To give you an idea of what the Coach Development Team and our Regional Coaches Associations (Leinster CA and NCUCA) have been up to since September of last year:

• Three regional coaching forums in LCU, NCU and NWCU to give coaches a opportunity to speak directly to the Cricket Ireland Coach Development team
• Five Welcome to Cricket (Intro to Cricket – 3hr) Courses – over 50 participants in the CCU, LCU and NCU
• Twelve Welcome to Coaching (Intro to Coaching – 6hr) Courses – approx. 170 new ‘Support Coaches’ in the CCU, LCU, NCU and NWCU
• UKCC ECB Level 2 Certificate courses in four unions (LCU, MCU, NCU and NWCU) – over 65 new coaches starting on their Level 2 journey
• UKCC ECB Level 3 Performance Coach Award in Dublin – 23 coaches from all over Europe, 14 of which are from Ireland
• Power Hitting, Wicket-keeping and “Coaching Talented Athlete” Workshops
• Four First Aid Courses and four Safeguarding Children Courses
• Developing a two-year Coach Development Plan to give unions, CICA members and cricket coaches an understanding about what to expect for the next couple of years
• Working alongside the new Active Clubs Coordinators in the NWCU and NCU to assist with their development programmes

March – April 2016 Upcoming Courses

Cricket Ireland is aiming to put together a comprehensive Coach Development programme for the whole of Ireland for the next few months and we’re keen to let you know what’s coming up and how to register for courses/programmes:

Leinster CA/LCU
• Welcome to Coaching at St Mary’s College, Rathmines – Sunday 3rd April (930am – 430pm)
• First Aid and Safeguarding Children’s Courses to be confirmed
• LCA AGM at Clontarf Cricket Club, Dublin – Wednesday 23rd March (730pm)
Please contact coached@cricketireland.ie to find out more information or register your place on these courses

MCU
• UKCC ECB Level 2 Course (ongoing) in Cork and Limerick – 20th March Douglas Community School, Cork (1030am – 530pm), 3rd April University of Limerick Sports Arena, Limerick (1030am – 5pm) and 17th April Douglas Community School, Cork (1030am – 530pm)
• More Coach Development programmes to be announced over the next couple of weeks
Please contact michael.hingston@cricketireland.ie to find out more information or register your place on these courses

NCU
• NCU Club-Life Weekend at Ulster University, Jordanstown – Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd April (9am – 5pm)
o Sunday is specifically for cricket coaches with a series of workshops and template sessions to help coaches in the build up to the cricket season
Please contact scott.irvine@cricketireland.ie to find out more information or register your place on these courses

NWCU
• More Coach Development programmes to be announced over the next couple of weeks
Please contact michael.hingston@cricketireland.ie to register your place on these courses

Upcoming Coach Development Plans for 2016

• CICA membership renewals will be taking place and membership welcome emails to be sent out (Feb and March)
• E-Coaching-Newsletters to all members will be going out in early March and early November
• Welcome to Cricket Courses in target areas within Unions (May and June)
• L2 and L3 assessments (Summer months)
• Annual Coaching Surveys and Regional Coaching Forums (Sept – Oct)
• Provincial and National Coach of the Year Awards (Oct – Nov)
• Coach Education Courses re-starting October 2016

It has been great to see the interest in cricket coaching grow over the last 12 – 18 months and we look forward to this continuing. Coaches are so important to the development and growth of our game and every coach from the playground, to the club-pitch, to the inter-provincial and national teams, has a major role to play as Cricket Ireland pushes towards becoming a Test playing nation.

Cricket Ireland Coach Development Dept.
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