Netball

Netball
Author: Wilma Shakespear
Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997
Genre: Netball
ISBN: 9780873229845

An understanding of the game of netball and its principles.

Coaching Youth Netball

Coaching Youth Netball
Author: Anita Navin
Publisher: Crowood
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2016-02-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1785001175

Coaching Youth Netball is a one-stop resource that will offer coaches, teachers and parents everything they need to deliver fun, dynamic, player-centred practice sessions as well as guidance to how to run a team and a club. Coaches at all levels will find ideas and information that will help them formulate plans to suit their players' abilities. Topics covered include practical games and drills; fundamental skills including movement, catching, throwing, passing and shooting; game sense, defensive and attacking skills and ways to manage your team and your club. Includes practical games and drills, enabling coaches to run productive sessions for young players and helps teach fundamental skills, including movement, catching, throwing, passing and shooting. This one-stop guide offers coaches, teachers and parents everything they need to deliver fun and dynamic netball practice sessions. Fully illustrated with photographs and diagrams.

Netball Practices and Training

Netball Practices and Training
Author: Anita Navin
Publisher: Crowood
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2013-06-30
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1847975844

Netball Practices and Training offers a comprehensive guide to planning netball training sessions with an emphasis on decision-making. Ensuring a player is equipped with the technical and tactical skills should not be the only focus of a coach, and by integrating practices that incorporate decision-making, a coach is successfully preparing a player for the demands of competition. The book outlines a range of practices for integrating game principles, skills and tactics for all units of the court. The book includes:180 practices with progressions for decision training; Sections addressing warm-up activities, movement skills, attack, defence and shooting; A section showing how a coach can integrate sport psychology into their practices; Information boxes containing key points; Detailed analyses of the movement and individual skills in netball; Reviews of the tactical aspects and game principles in attack and defence; Supporting information on differentiating a practice for players of different levels of ability. A comprehensive guide to planning netball training sessions with an emphasis on decision-making, that will provide a key resource for all netball coaches and teams. Includes 180 practices with progressions for decision training and gives details on warm-up activities, movement skills, attack, defence and shooting. Superbly illustrated with 20 colour photographs and 180 diagrams. Anita Navin is a highly experienced coach and coach educator has been involved with England Netball for over twenty five years.

Women in Sports Coaching

Women in Sports Coaching
Author: Nicole M. LaVoi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2016-03-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317561619

Women in many Westernized countries encounter a wider variety of career opportunities than afforded in previous decades, and the percentage of women leaders in nearly every sector is on the rise. Sport coaching, however, remains a domain where gender equity has declined or stalled, despite increasing female sport participation. The percentage of women who coach women are in the minority in most sports, and there is a near absence of women coaching men. This important new book examines why. Drawing on original multi-disciplinary research from across the globe, including first-hand accounts from practicing coaches, the book illuminates and examines the status of women in coaching, explores the complex issues they face in pursuing their careers, and suggests solutions for eliminating the barriers that impede women in coaching. Developing an innovative model of intersectionality and power constructs through which to guide research, the book covers issues including sexual identity, race, motherhood, cross-gender coaching and media coverage to give voice to women coaches from around the world. As such, Women in Sports Coaching is essential reading for serious students and scholars of sports coaching, sport sociology or anyone with an interest in gender and sport.

Coaching Better Every Season

Coaching Better Every Season
Author: Gilbert, Wade
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2016-11-17
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1492507660

Presents the best coaching methods and practices for each season on the sport calendar – pre-season, in-season, post-season, and off-season - and offers specific actions, tools, and guidelines for coaches to create a cycle of continuous improvement for themselves, their athletes, and their teams.

Grace on the Court

Grace on the Court
Author: Maddy Proud
Publisher: Black Inc.
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2018-01-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1743820232

Grace Parker needs to figure out how to handle the 3Bs: boys, boy bands and ball sports. Things were simple for netball nerd Grace Parker at primary school. She was captain of her school team – and with best friends Stella and Mia won the grand final. Back then, her biggest problem was persuading her parents to buy her tickets to see Friday at Five, the world’s hottest boy band. But high school’s a whole new story. Grace’s greatest rival on the court, Amber Burns, just made the same netball team as her. Her twin brother, Gus, is devastated he didn’t make the A-grade AFL side. Her older brother, Tyler, is ignoring her. And as if that wasn’t enough for a 13-year-old girl to handle, dreamy aspiring rockstar Sebastian King is suddenly paying her a lot of attention ... Maddy Proud is a professional netballer currently playing for the NSW Swifts. Previously she played for the Adelaide Thunderbirds, who signed her at 16, making her the youngest player ever contracted in the Trans-Tasman ANZ Championships.

Legends of Australian Sport

Legends of Australian Sport
Author: Peter Meares
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780702234101

The inside story of the lives of 25 of Australia's sporting greats, written by sports broadcaster, Peter Meares. His friendships have allowed him unprecedented access to their lives and the secrets of their success. Includes profiles on Greg Norman, Leigh Matthews, Greg Chappell, Pam Burridge, Margaret Court and David Campese.

Will to Win

Will to Win
Author: Andy Martin
Publisher: Massey University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2020-06-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0995135487

This book is a fascinating deep-dive into the development of the Silver Ferns' traditions, the evolution of team culture and the nuts-and-bolts of leadership at an elite level. Legendary players and coaches — including Lois Muir, Leigh Gibbs, Bernice Mene, Ruth Aitken and Casey Kopua — candidly discuss the highs and lows of their careers, and of the Silver Ferns, the effect of the intense rivalry with Australia, coping with gut-wrenching losses, and the resilience of players and coaches. For the first time the perspective of these key actors is the subject of serious analysis, and Will to Win offers a real insight into the psychology of a women's high-performance team. As such, it provides a practical guide for developing team culture and leadership for netball coaches at all levels. It also includes comments from Farah Palmer on women in sport and leadership, and a brief history of New Zealand netball, including the gains and losses as netball moved into a semi-professional era, and the struggles for sponsorship and for media recognition, despite it being New Zealand's most popular team sport.

The Science of Elite Performance: The World Awaits

The Science of Elite Performance: The World Awaits
Author: Dr Ashley M. Berge, PhD
Publisher: AM8 International
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2017-03-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0994569424

Never before in the world of sports have coaches been privy to a method or style of practice that has handed them the reins to develop the best athletes in the world. One sport and one technique provide the necessary channels to follow addressing the very existence of a formula attributed to elite sporting success.The sport of tennis was used along with its collective technique in the forehand groundstroke, as the gateway to deliver to the coach and athlete a blueprint that encapsulates the requirements and demands vital in achieving a “top 10” ranking. A blueprint of the science and education, as one, is presented. The featured literature reviews, reiterated yet stylistically shaped with a multi-premise: to teach both the coach and athlete how to develop and achieve optimal performance success, synonymous with a “top 10” ranking, and to accommodate the academic: a guide on how to build, structure and freely evolve the literature review, serving as their own unique learning structures. Introducing the ground-breaking sports coaching phenomenon: the Optimal Performance Theory, and The V by Dr. B © – handing you what the sporting world has been awaiting: the formula behind optimal performance success.