Coach Success

Become a Clumber Coach!!

Cricket has been chosen, as one of 6 sports, to lead the 'fastrack' development and delivery of the National Coaching Certificate, UKCC. It’s provided an outstanding opportunity for our members to enter an exciting coach education and development system.

Becoming a cricket coach is straight forward, so why not have go!! All it needs is commitment and some of your time, the amount will depend how far you wish to progress. Outlined below are the recent changes to the ECB coaching structure. You do not need to have played cricket to help coach!

ECB Coaching Assistant (UKCC 1)

These courses (15 hours + assessment) will help you to assist more qualified coaches, delivering aspects of coaching sessions, normally under direct supervision. This may include running warm ups / cool downs, small sided games and small group work. The target audience for this course is:

• Parents helping out at club junior sections
• Volunteers working in club junior sections
• Adults assisting club coaches on club junior practice nights

ECB Coach (UKCC 2)

The role of the ECB Coach Award (UKCC 2) holder is to be able to “Prepare for, deliver and review coaching sessions”. This course (24 hours + 10 hours supervised coaching + assessment) will help you to be able to:

• Introduce and develop the game of cricket to people of all ages in an enjoyable way
• Develop Fundalmental movement skills
• Develop and improve players (as people as well as cricketers) particularly at Fundamental and Learning to Train stages of the LTAD model
• Develop your coaching skills, knowledge and qualities

The target audience for this course is people with previous experience of playing / coaching cricket. You are not required to hold an ECB level I certificate prior to attending this course.

ECB Level I

These courses have been phased out but as stated previously, existing qualifications will continue to be recognised.

ECB Level II

This course (24 hours + assessment) builds on the skills and knowledge acquired at Level I and develops further competences in technical modelling and demonstration; effective communication; sport psychology; biomechanics and physiology; net coaching; using video to analyse performance

ECB Level III

These courses will continue to be organised centrally from Edgbaston. This is a week residential course, but it must be stated that there is a considerable waiting list for these courses.

For further information on these courses, please visit www.ecb.co.uk and click on “coaching”.

Cricket Development Week a Great Success

Following 2006’s highly successful cricket development week, Clumber again organised another highly successful Cricket Development week in August 2007with over thirty juniors attending each of the days.

Players from the ages of 11 to 15 attended the four-hardball days with juniors from Clumber, Milton and Anston cricket clubs attending. The Clumber coaches concentrated on a mixture of basic and advanced batting, bowling and fielding drills throughout the week. The development week again proved successful both for Clumber and for the juniors who defiantly benefited from the expert coaching delivered by our coaches.

A huge thank you goes out to all the Clumber coaches and helpers who gave their time on a voluntary basis and made the week such as success. A huge thank you also goes out to the parents and juniors who attended the development week as without your support the week would not have been such a great successful not just for Clumber but also for the juniors that attended.

The 2nd annual Clumber Park Cricket Development Week raised over £2000. This money was put to use almost instantly by the club who used the cash to buy a shiny new tractor to assist the Clumber grounds staff to cut our new ground.

In 2008 Clumber plan to hold another Cricket development week planned to take place in the summer holidays. Further details will be given on the club website development week so keep an eye out!

The club would like to thank Ollie Williams and Rachel Bellamy for their hard work in the organising the event.