The Courts All Sectors Netball League resumes its Youth Development Programme for netballers under the age of 16 from July 15-18 and July 22-25.
The program will be conducted at the Eastern Regional Indoor Sports Arena in Tacarigua from 1pm-5pm.
Focus will be placed on building mental, physical and technical capacity, increasing player participation, encouraging a healthy lifestyle and love for the game of netball.
Five netball teams have confirmed participation which will again be managed by the leadership of current teams that participate in the Courts All Sectors Netball League and the Secondary Schools Netball Association.
The representative teams are Arima United, Cardinals, Police Netball Youth, Soul City and Spartom.
Apart from the competitive netball that will be played, participants will be exposed to bench officiating, rules and protocols, practical umpiring, roles of players and officials and the netball code of conduct among other topics.
Youth Development Programme Schedule
July 15 - Opening ceremony, registration and briefing (1.30pm) March on, Address, Knockout games
July 16 - Personal training (1.30pm), Cardinals vs Spartan (3pm, PNYC vs Soul City (4pm), sport psychology, bench officiating
July 17 - Personal training (1.30pm), PNYC vs Arima United (3pm), Soul City vs Spartom (4pm), mental health, bench officiating
July 18 - Personal training (1.30pm), Soul City vs Cardinals (3pm), Spartom vs Arima United (4pm), roles of players and officials, code of conduct, drugs, bench officiating
July 22 - Skills development (1.30pm), social development (3.30pm), shooting competition, team talent display
July 23 - Personal training (1.30pm), Spartom vs PNYC (3pm), Arima United vs Cardinals (4pm), Umpiring - rules and protocols, bench officiating
July 24 - Personal training (1.30pm), Arima United vs Soul City )3pm), Cardinals vs PNYC (4pm), umpiring - rules protocols, bench officiating
July 25 - Mixed teams knockout (1.30pm), distribution of awards (4pm)
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