Henderson Memorial to start season

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GISBORNE Netball Centre is gearing up for another big year, starting with the annual Kathleen Henderson Memorial tournament on March 19.

The tournament is the chance for teams to blow out the competitive cobwebs before getting stuck into the senior competition proper.

Registrations for the Kathleen Henderson tournament close on March 11.

The day of the tournament is also the last day registrations will be taken for the senior competition, which starts on April 2.

Junior team registrations close on April 15 and junior grading begins on May 7.

GNC will make available a full calendar once representative tournament dates have been finalised.

n Shan Jensen-Loach, of Netball Waikato Bay of Plenty, will be in Gisborne next week for three coaching clinics held in conjunction with GNC.

The first of these, Selecting Made Easy, is on Friday, January 22. The other clinics, Player-centred Coaching (PCC) and Skill Analysis (SA), are on January 23.

GNC manager Allisa Hall says the clinics are great for all level of coaches and lead into three other workshops — on communication, team building and planning.

Registrations are essential. Anyone wanting more information should contact GNC (gisbornenetball@ihug.co.nz or 867 2345) or go to its website (www.sportsground.co.nz/gisbornenc).

n Tairawhiti Maori age-group teams will be competing in the Aotearoa Maori Netball Oranga Healthy Lifestyles national tournament in Hamilton in March.

To prepare for this, a muster is being held at the GNC courts on Sunday, January 24, from 10am.

Participants need to bring something to drink, a sunhat, sunscreen and court shoes.

Tairawhiti will have four age-group teams — under-13s (coached by Trudy Ngawhare), u15s (Dianah Foley), u17s (Irene Takao/Paku Kingi) and u19s (Angela McClutchie).

Players wanting to register for the muster should contact Paku (027 431 9249 or pakukingi29@gmail.com) or Dianah (027 447 2909 or admin@twtworktrust.org).