Cricket NSW launches first elite teaching apprenticeship for girls

For former NSW Breaker and Sydney Thunder participant Hannah Trethewy, her first alternative to educate one other cricketer got here when enjoying cricket for her native membership, Campbelltown Camden District Cricket Membership (extra affectionately generally known as Ghosts Cricket).

“I used to be nonetheless in school and wicketkeeping when my native member on the time Chris Patterson, reached out to me,” mentioned Trethewy.

“His son performed on the identical membership that I did and was twelve years outdated. Chris needed to know whether or not I used to be keen on doing a little work along with his son.

“At that time I didn’t have any teaching {qualifications}. It was simply because I performed for my native membership and was across the Cricket NSW setting.”

Trethewy beloved it and it was the primary time she ever thought of teaching as a path. Whereas she does credit score Tom, the cricketer she was working with, what struck Trethewy probably the most was how a lot she loved serving to others and make them higher cricketers.

“To assist somebody be the very best individual they are often and the very best cricketer that they are often is one thing that I discover actually motivating,” mentioned Trethewy.

From teaching Tom, Trethewy was given different alternatives via the pathways system with Cricket NSW and has not too long ago been given one other alternative via Cricket NSW, supported by Cricket Australia.

Trethewy is considered one of three ladies chosen to take part in Cricket NSW’s first elite teaching apprenticeship program particularly designed by ladies.

The main focus of this system is to make sure that ladies are given the chance to develop teaching credentials, alongside the speedy growth of the ladies’s recreation.

Becoming a member of Trethewy is not too long ago retired NSW Breaker and Sydney Sixers participant Sarah Aley and present NSW Breaker and Sydney Sixers participant Lisa Griffith.

Trethewy is trying ahead to working alongside each Aley and Griffith who’re former teammates of hers, however she can also be centered on guaranteeing that internships like this give extra ladies the chance to contemplate teaching as a profession path, but additionally to make sure that ladies are broadening their considering to educate not simply ladies, however males too.

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“We might be uncovered to the boys’s program too and training males,” mentioned Trethewy.

“Once I first began working teaching programs, I had a male cricketer take part. He used to captain the Ghosts first grade group and I bear in mind when he first walked in considering that I didn’t have a lot to supply.

“On the finish of the course he got here as much as me and advised me about how a lot he had learnt and the way his considering round teaching youthful cricketers modified.

“At that second I realised that he could have had a lot expertise and he took the outing to thank me, his feminine teacher. I’m not restricted and neither is any girl restricted to only teaching within the ladies’s house. We will additionally coach within the males’s house too.”

One other girl very passionate in regards to the introduction of this program is trailblazer Leah Poulton who has not too long ago been appointed as Head of Feminine Cricket at Cricket NSW. Poulton is a former Australian and NSW Breakers gamers and has been an integral a part of the Cricket Australia Excessive Efficiency Feminine Program, teaching as a part of the set-ups for each the Australian Girls’s Cricket group and Melbourne Stars WBBL group.

“I’ve sat on quite a few panels for teaching roles and what has all the time struck me is how few feminine candidates we get and it has all the time baffled me as a result of I understand how many gifted feminine coaches we’ve got in our recreation,” mentioned Poulton.

“When I’ve referred to as individuals and requested why they didn’t apply, there have been all the time quite a few causes which stored coming all the way down to confidence.

“It isn’t nearly accreditation, it’s about giving individuals the chance to develop confidence and that may be a massive rationale for this program.”

Prime two groups make it via to McDonald’s Girls’s #NSWPremierCricket Grand Last.

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— Cricket NSW (@CricketNSW) March 11, 2019

For Poulton, this program additionally offers Cricket NSW the chance to create function fashions and make feminine coaches seen. You’ll be able to’t be what you may’t see and for Poulton that visibility is essential.

“We need to create nice feminine function fashions and I believe we’ve got it in Hannah, Lisa and Sarah,” mentioned Poulton.

Cricket Australia is an organisation which has demonstrated its dedication to the ladies’s recreation and girls in cricket over the past couple of years.

From Claire Polosak, who simply final week, grew to become the primary feminine umpire to officiate a males’s Take a look at match, to the ladies concerned within the administration of the sport at a nationwide and a state degree like Mel Jones and Alex Blackwell, to the big success of the WBBL and the Australian Girls’s Cricket group, cricket continues to show management on this house.

For Trethewy, this internship is simply one other alternative for Cricket Australia and the varied states to point out management.

“Cricket NSW have recognised the work carried out within the umpiring house and within the ladies’s recreation, however they’ve additionally recognised that there’s a place for feminine coaches,” mentioned Trethewy.

“I actually hope it leads the best way for different states and that seeing extra ladies teaching each women and men turns into the norm.”