The Cricket NSW Foundation – the charitable arm of Cricket NSW -- has partnered with Coaching Unlimited to offer a unique First Nations Community Cricket Coaching Workshop at Cricket Central on February 9, 2025.
Through the free cricket coaching workshop, the Foundation is hoping to offer First Nations participants an opportunity to improve their coaching skills, improve players’ knowledge, and deepen cricket’s connection to the community in the process.
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The workshop is open to First Nations Peoples 14 years or older, who will receive their Community Cricket Coaching Accreditation through Coaching Unlimited, a national coach education program that provides sport-specific training to support First Nations Peoples to become accredited sport coaches.
Indigenous cricket star Andrew Gordon, who will be facilitating the coaching workshop, said he is excited to be involved in this coaching project and its approach to developing Aboriginal cricket coaches and opportunities to develop our future Aboriginal cricketers in all ages of the game.
“As a long time player and coach, I'm a strong advocate for this concept to improve opportunities, nurture great coaching methods and essentially develop our Aboriginal cricketers. Looking to the future, if we can strengthen the knowledge of our First Nations coaches we'll enable opportunities to develop Aboriginal cricketers and potentially inspire another generation to explore coaching,” Gordon said.
Andrew Bennie, Operations Lead and co-founder of Coaching Unlimited, said:
“We are really delighted to co-deliver first ever Community Cricket Coaching workshop in partnership with First Nations peoples and the Cricket NSW Foundation. We recognise the crucial role that First Nations coaches play in encouraging sport participation and our ambition at Coaching Unlimited is to support First Nations coaches achieve their goals – be it reaching the highest level of their chosen sport or becoming a role model for their communities.”
“The upcoming community cricket coaching workshop matches this intent by increasing access to sport coaching accreditation while also providing a mechanism to develop connections with other First Nations coaches where knowledge is shared, and relationships are built for mutual benefit.”
Jake Balnave, Head of the Cricket NSW Foundation, said:
“We are happy to announce our partnership with Coaching Unlimited and look forward to our joint efforts to be able to create more First Nations community coaches.
“The workshop in February is part of an ongoing commitment to Reconciliation by the Cricket NSW and the CNSW Foundation, who currently conduct dozens of free First Nations-focussed cricket clinics for children and adults alike every year to remove the barriers that prevent them from playing cricket to inspire everyone to play and love the game.”