Page 8 - West Pennant Hills Cherrybrook Cricket Club Yearbook 2015-16

Recognition
Joseph Cooray (our U10 Age Co-ordinator) represented us at Government House in October 2015 to meet the Governor as a thank you for our Club’s support for the McGrath Foundation over the years. We were also asked to produce a short video that the Foundation is using in their National advertising of Pink Stumps day this season. It was sent to all schools, cricket Clubs and organisations Australia wide.
The reason? Our U9’s each year run our Pink Stumps day initiative. Since 2014, they have raised $18,500 and we are one of the highest fund raising Cricket Clubs in Australia. Well done folks.
Organic coaching and schools development
This was the first season we moved away from external facilitated Club coaching to an internal model. This involves the Coaching Team comprising solely our own “home grown” players. Led by former A1 Grade player, Daniel Anderson, now with Northern District CC, our coaches are all graduates from Juniors and have played Senior Cricket. Each coach also has at least a Level 1 Coaching qualification. The Team also led our Schools Development program with tremendous success. The new arrangement worked well and will be a permanent offering in our coaching program going forward.
The contribution made for our Schools Development days is perhaps the biggest achievement of our Coaching group. Over July they visited Oakhill Drive, Cherrybrook Public, WPH Public and Murray Farm Schools and introduced cricket to over 1,000 children. This was one of the main contributors to the increase in 9 Junior Teams this season.
Level 1 Coaching
This year we ran our 8th Club funded Level 1 Coaching Program in conjunction with CNSW and had 17 participants. Congratulations to our latest Level 1 Coaches:
Doug Bennie Ankit Grover
Mal Hall
Nic Hecimovic Prem Krithivasan Roger Kurian Bailey Miedler Harrison Miedler
Country Carnivals
Tis Mistry
Leon Prowse
Alex Turner
David Weeden ColinWood
David Behlevanas Indranil Mukherjee Tim Dawson
The 1st week of January is when we travel to the Country Carnivals – these are invitation only Carnivals and are typically against Representative President’s Cup sides. We are the only Club in NSW to be given the opportunity to participate in these Carnivals and these are held as follows:
• Tamworth JCU (U14s)
• Walter Taylor Shield (Armidale – U15s) • Stan Austin Cup (Taree U16s)
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