Basketball New Zealand

Late entries are now available to Basketball New Zealandís Labour Weekend Coaches Workshop, featuring six presenters who have coached at international level.

Registrations officially closed Monday, but organisers have extended entries right up to sign-in on Saturday morning.

This yearís workshop focuses on coaches across the basketball community with topics aimed at elite, development & participation coaches and the most comprehensive line-up of speakers in the events history!

The workshop will feature key note sessions as well as concurrent sessions aimed at different coaching communities. For the first time this yearís workshop includes a special reduced registration option for participation level coaches.

Incumbent Tall Black coach Nenad Vucinic will not return from Europe in time for the workshop and is now a late scratching from the line-up of presenters.

The workshop begins with a sign-in at 8.30am on Saturday, October 20, and concludes following a session with key-note presenters at 1.15pm on Monday, October 22.

2007 Workshop Topics

Elite Coaches
Building team systems that develop players
National team playbooks
The European system for developing coaches
Effective plays to beat zone defence
Scouting the opposition
Helping elite athletes learn
The Breakers “pack” defence
An assault on Beijing: Planning HP coaching
Developing individuals in a team environment

Development Coaches
Play over plays - using games to teach athletes
Individuals at the Breakers Academy
Building team systems that develop players
National Junior Team playbooks
Conditioning developing athletes
Fuelling athlete energy systems
Coach development through coaching practice
Participation versus performance coaching

Participation Coaches
The NZ Coach Approach in practice
Small games for developing basketball skills in young athletes
Coach development through coaching practice
Teaching healthy eating through sport
How do young athletes learn
Help Grandparents and Parents help your coaching
Participation versus performance coaching
Starting at the bottom: Getting NZ Basketball to the top

2007 Speakers

Ian Stacker - Head Coach of Australian Junior Men World Champions and Townsville Crocodiles Australian NBL Side
Nenad Vucinic - Head Coach Tall Blacks
Mike McHugh - Head Coach Tall Ferns
John Herdman - Head Coach NZ Football Ferns who recently competed in the FIFA World Cup for Women
Graeme Robson - Manager of Coaching NZ Academy of Sport North, former National Badminton Coach
Ollie Dudfield - Manager Player and Coach Development Basketball New Zealand
Murray McMahon - Coachforce Officer Sport Waikato, Head Coach Waikato Pistons
Darren Ward - Specialised Coaching Services
Brad Conza and Kirsten Mackenzie - Support Personnel, New Zealand Academy of Sport
New Zealand Breakers Coaching Staff
National Junior Team Coaching Staff

Feedback from the 2006 Workshop

ìThis was one of the best Coaching events I have been to. I think having like minded coaches grouped together for a few days is always going to be good.î
Murray McMahon - Head Coach Waikato Pistons NBL Team

ìAs a coach it was a great experience as it drove home the concepts that we were being taught. Other good points include establishing contacts through out the BBNZ coaching community, finding how others (coaches) teach certain basketball techniques and finding out why coaches do the things they do (Coaching Philosophy). This was great as it gave you a lot more to think about in terms of what you are teaching and why you are teaching in that way or sequence. Thank you for the opportunity, it was a valuable experience.î
Doug Courtney - Head Coach New Zealand National Age Group Team

ìThe range of topics covered at the Labour Weekend Workshop was great and the arrangements excellent. Keep up the good work, I look forward to seeing you again on the sunny North Shore.î
Mike Lacey -North Harbour YMCA

ìI wanted to say how much I enjoyed the Clinic over Labour Weekend. As Im not a very experienced Coach, the Clinic showed me how much I have to learn, but what a way to learn!î
Graeme Dick -Cambridge High School

ìThanks for all your effort during the weekend. The conference was great and we are going to establish our own little coaching fraternity here in Marlborough and so we can gather monthly either to brainstorm or to provide training for ourselves.î
Jim Doyle - Marlborough Basketball Association

ìJust to say congratulations and thank all our coaches from Rotorua thoroughly enjoyed the Labour Weekend Workshops and are still buzzing following the event.î
Sue Pene - Rotorua Basketball Association

Registrations close soon! See the attachments or the link below for further details

2007 BBNZ Labour Weekend Coaches Workshop Registration (doc 182KB)
2007 BBNZ Labour Weekend Coaches Workshop Registration (pdf 153KB)