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NEW ZEALAND
Contact Person:
Nicola Connell
Role in NA:
Development Assistant
When:
10-18 May
Where:
Various locations (turf and grass) around New Zealand
Target group:
Under 19 year olds
Number of participants:
26’000
Program:
- Live the Dream Word Find Competition
- Motivational Poster Competition
- Juggles Competition
- Goalkeeper Juggles Competition
- Live the Dream Colouring In Competition
- Best Photo Competition
- Media Involvement
- Youth Leader Certificates
- Secondary and Primary School Initiatives
- Association Initiatives
- Umpiring Initiatives
All competitions, forms, results and images were posted on our internet site: www.hockeynz.co.nz/coaching/youthweek
Aim of the event:
To promote Youth hockey all over New Zealand and to promote and emphasise this years theme of ‘Live the Dream’. Also to make more people (both youth and adults) aware that hockey has been at the Olympics for 100 years.
Result of the event:
Some great initiatives were created by our regional associations to promote Youth Week, such as Olympic banner competitions (see photos) and we had some excellent entries for both our coloring in competition and our Motivational Poster competition. Overall youth in New Zealand seemed to enjoy this years Live the Dream Youth Week.
Follow up:
Next year we will align our Youth Week so that it takes place 1-2 weeks after the Junior Season has started in NZ to maximize the number of participants.
Organized by:
Hockey NZ Coaching and Development
TV and Media Coverage:
We had two articles about Youth Week published in local newspapers in New Zealand.
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