Youthtown Programme

SECONDARY SCHOOL COORDINATOR PROGRAMME

The Objective

To provide opportunities and funding to set up School Cricket Coordinators in select secondary schools of cricketing importance to improve game organisation, profile, and the retention of players at and beyond school.

The Concept

• New Zealand Cricket is providing funding to establish a number of School Cricket Coordinators to assist associations, in consultation with their local Community Cricket Coordinators and the relevant secondary schools, to appoint or support a person in select schools of cricketing importance to their respective associations, to ensure the effective organisation and running of cricket within these schools and the retention of players within and beyond secondary school. The funding is not a ‘top up’ it must be used to added value in each school through the completion of a three year schedule of designated improvement tasks.

• The role would require the progressive implementation of a quality assurance system in each secondary school that would improve its efficiency and ensure its sustainability by improving retention, including the transition of school cricket player leavers into cricket clubs.

Schools Involved

The following are the schools currently involved in the programme:

Auckland

Auckland GS
Epsom Girls' GS
Westlake BHS
Westlake GHS
Sacred Heart College
King's College
Rangitoto College
Mt Albert GS
Kelston BHS
Takapuna GS

Whangarei BHS
Tauranga BC
Hamilton BHS
Rotorua BHS
Gisborne BHS
Alfriston HS (Taranaki)
Taupo-nui-a-Tia College (Taupo)

New Plymouth BHS
Francis Douglas MC
Palmerston North BHS
Napier BHS
Nelson College
Waimea College
Marlborough BHS

Wellington

Wellington College
Hutt Valley HS
Tawa College
Hutt International (Upper Hutt)

Canterbury

Shirley BHS (New Brighton)
Christchurch BHS
Christ's College
St Andrews College
St Bede's College
Timaru BHS
Ashburton College
Combined West Coast Schools

Otago

Otago BHS
King's HS
John McGlashan College
Waitaki BHS (Oamarua)