Five Heywood cricketers past and present are set to add to the growing ranks of the club’s coaches.
Current first team players Dale Latham, Adam Fawcett and Danny Pawson (pictured above) will be joined by under-11s assistant coach and former first-teamer John Heywood and former first-teamer Scott McHugh on the five-week Level 2 course, which starts next month.
The course is being held at Old Trafford, and is being funded entirely by outside sources.
Coaching courses such as this – more about which can be found here http://www.ecb.co.uk/development/coach-education/ – are designed to ensure youngsters are kept safe, entertained and informed at all times in the care of coaches.
Coaches will provide structured sessions and will not only be hoping to bring forth the next generation of star players for Heywood, but also make sure the youngsters enjoy their cricket.
Once these five have completed their training, it will bring to double figures the number of qualified coaches at Heywood Cricket Club, which this year attained Clubmark status for its commitment to junior cricket.
From next year (2012) we will have teams from under-9s through to under-18s, while it is also hoped coaches will provide as much one-on-one coaching with senior players as the individual player wants, something that has been lacking for some time.
It should also mean better structured net sessions for senior cricketers, with senior nets being shifted to Thursdays to allow coaches to coach younger players on other nights of the week while still being able to attend net sessions.
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Thanks to the five mentioned above. We are now six taking a level 2 Course. Tom Blundell will be taking his level 2 in between going to lectures (and no doubt the pub!) at Leeds Met. University. We should also say thanks to Scott Carneige at Siddal Moor Sports College, which has agreed to fund the six delegates from their ‘Get Coaching’ fund. The club has laid the money out in the first instance and as soon as coaches qualify, we can claim the money from Siddal Moor. Thanks to Scott and Siddal Moor Sports College.
Scott – I would be interested in doing this course myself but with working away all week I have a couple of questions:
1) Are the courses at weekend or midweek – if weekend I could attend?
2) Would there be any point in me taking the course – with working away it will mean I can’t put any of the skills learned into practice during the week? I hope my work situation might change one day with a home based posting but I just don’t know at this stage.
Cheers