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Walk With us Group Rainy Day

Thank you Massey University Albany Campus for hosting the Walk With Us Albany group’s rainy day activity! 20 of our members had an amazing time playing basketball, table tennis and badminton at the Massey University Albany Recreation Centre.

Coconut oil and the heart

The New Zealand Heart Foundation is advising Kiwis to continue using unsaturated plant oils rather than switching to coconut oil as their main cooking oil. Coconut oil has recently gained popularity as a result of heavy marketing in both the US and Australasia. There...

Train Ugly

This website is full of short articles and videos for coaches, highlighting how you can develop behaviours in your athletes to help them succeed, notably; developing a growth mindset, bouncing back from mistakes, emotional control, how to design training to maximise...

Positive Coaching Alliance

Positive Coaching Alliance is a national non-profit developing “Better Athletes, Better People” by working to provide all youth and high school athletes a positive, character-building youth sports experience. It focuses on developing coaches, parents and...

How Much do Coaches Matter?

How much do coaches matter? – Teams planning management changes on “Black Monday” can learn much from academic research on National Football League coaches, say Boris Groysberg and Abhijit Naik. The findings hold value not only for football teams,...

The SportSmart Warm Up

ACC have developed a new resource for coaches and athletes to use to improve their warm up processes. The SportSmart warm up is based on research and has been identified as preventing injuries by 30-50% if done twice a week. “ACC SportSmart Warm Up is a complete...

Regional Sport and Recreation Grants – Opens 10 October

New funding round for the 2017/2018 Regional Sport and Recreation Grants programme DETAILS: Opens 10 October 2016 Closes 25 November 2016 Total available is $508,000 In the 2017/2018 funding round, the outcomes sought through this fund are: Participation There are...

June Volunteer of the Month

  For June’s Volunteer of the Month award we have not one but two winners! The first of these is Julia Rudolph-Karena. This super volunteer has been offering her time in a variety of sports including Netball, Basketball and Touch for a number of years. She was an...