Committees in Full Swing with Season Preparations

The Managment Committee, Men's Cricket Committee, Women's Admin and Cricket Committee, Junior Admin and Cricket Committee are all working to ensure all areas of the club are well prepared for the start of season 2011-12.
The Senior Managemnt Committee has met on 4 occassions since the AGM, including 3 monthly Management Meetings and a Strategic Plan review meeting. Key areas such as sponsorship, volunteers, budget preparation, Febluary, SACA liaison, Junior parental involvement, working with affiliated cricket clubs and the anticipated hard wicket renovations were seen  as priorities. A redrafted Club Strategic plan will be drawn up and available to members via the website.

As you can see the Senior Cricket Committee headed up by Paul Charman, with Bob lisle and new recruit Richard Ridley have worked with Senior Coach Abe Moore and Dean Chambers to ensure the men's pres-season is in place.

In a new approach to the running of our Juniors Tania Scott and Bob Lisle have set up a Junior Admin Committee and a Junior Cricket Committee, both committee's have recruited assistance from willing parents. Much has already been achieved. Selection Policy, Codes of Behaviour, Subs and Uniforms, Welcome to Southern District Cricket Club pamphlets are being drawn up. Any one interested in assisting can approach Tania Scott.

The Women's Committee has also been active and similar to the Juniors having set up a Women's Admin Committee and a Women's Cricket Committee. Sharon Rattray and David Kempe have been instrumental in managing this change.

The Hard Wicket Project will commence in the second week of August and subject to weather will be completed in two weeks.

With the new changerooms completed an official openning ceremony will conducted at the first schedule Women's game at Bice Oval.

For your information the Managment Committee is made up of the following people; President/Secretary Harvey Jolly, Treasurer Bob Bache, Febluary Coordinator, Fern Nizzola, Chairman of Cricket, Paul Charman, Junior Volunteer Coordinator Tania Scott, Junior Cricket Director, Bob Lisle, Women's Volunteer Coordinator, Sharon Rattray, Women's Cricket Director, David Kempe, Grounds Coordinator, Jason Riley, SACA Delegate Kuang Tan, Committee Richard Ridley and David Greenshields, Assistant Secretary Davina Malcolm. If anyone is interested in filling the crucial role of Club Secretary please contact Harvey.

As plans for the season are establsihed and the SACA program is completed members will be provided this information via the website and the new addition to our communication strategy the Stingers App's.

Looking forward to seeing everyone as the pres-season begins.

President Harvey Jolly

Game Development Job Opportunity

SACA are looking for a new Game Development officer for the South Central reason. Details and contact info below.

Following recent resignation in the Game Development Department, the Association is now welcoming applications for Cricket Development Officer in the South Central Region.

Reporting directly to the Regional Cricket Manager, the key responsibilities of this role will be to increase participation at all levels of cricket within the regions (Metropolitan and Country) including “in2CRICKET”, support clubs in developing a structure and environment in which cricketers can compete and progress to their highest level (including first class cricket), assisting clubs to recruit and retain volunteers and promote the competition in the wider community.

The successful applicant will be required to demonstrate:-

• Ability to manage high workloads and meet deadlines within specific time frames;
• Well developed strategic planning skills;
• Well developed internal consulting skills;
• Enthusiasm and passion for the sport of cricket and a commitment to see the sport develop and improve;
• Excellent oral and written communication;
• The ability to communicate, manage and motivate effectively with a wide range of people;
• Experience in researching, analysing, developing and directing programs including coach education programs;
• Capacity to handle junior sports policy matters;
• Ability in developing, overseeing and reporting on budgets;

• Understanding of a sports administration structure, at a club, association or State level;

• Experience in planning, coordinating and implementing specific associated programs and events;
• Ability to identify talented players at all levels;
• Proven ability to analyse problems quickly and formulate practical courses of action;
• Computer skills, particularly word processing, database, spread sheets and presentation skills

This role presents a unique opportunity to provide direction and co-ordination of people along with the implementation of programs that will positively impact on the participation of cricket in South Australia.

For a job and person specification please visit www.cricketsa.com.au

Applications in Word format only should be forwarded to by e-mail to jfarrell@saca.com.au Telephone enquiries may be directed to Jessica Farrell on (08) 83003836.

Welcome to Season 2011/12

On behalf of the Stingrays coaching staff, Welcome to season 2011/12! The coaches and captains have been busily preparing a pre-season schedule to help us to hit the ground running in round one. We have tweaked the format from the past two pre-seasons to include more core skills sessions, with a greater focus on skill development and strategic/decision making aspects of the game. 

To cut down travel commitments, we are utilising the indoor facilities at the ICA for a significant portion, with only a handful of sessions at Adelaide Oval in September in the lead up to round 1.

You will notice that pre-season sessions are designed to allow most players two core skill sessions per week for between 6-10 weeks. A player specific list for individual sessions is included with the pre-season calendar. This is a guide of who we expect will be attending these sessions.

Players can be added or removed from sessions as per their “want”, so take a moment to look at our expectations, and consider your needs and availability.

It is each players responsibility to contact me on 0419 537 998 or abe@stingrays.com.au by Sat July 30^th to discuss your needs, confirm your starting date for pre-season, and “book in” your attendance at individual sessions.

As a club we are (and should be) measured by the success of our A grade side. Our opponents will be well prepared and hungry for success. We have been building towards A Grade finals for the past few years with success in the lower grades, and it is now time for our very best to fly the flag for Southern District and create some history!

Look forward to hearing from each of you,

Abe Moore

Other Stingray News

We welcome Shaun Tanner to his new role as club captain. Shaun has an important job over the pre-season in helping individual players shape their goals and team roles in each of the three formats of the game.

We also welcome Malcolm Condon to the club as a skills coach this season. Mal is a level III coach, who previously coached University CC after a successful playing career in the Sydney grade comp. More recently he has been involved at Sheidow Park CC. We are also pleased to announce that Bob Lisle, John Roberts, Dean Chambers, Emily Moran and Harvey Jolly will also continue be involved during various stages of the pre-season program.

We will be welcoming a number of new and returning players to the club this season, with more news on this to follow in the coming weeks.

Congratulations to Matthew Overall (U19) and Tom Cotter-Gillies/Rhys Barrett (U17’s) on their selections in SACA youth teams this season.

Congratulations also to Gary Putland who has been drafted into the Adelaide Strikers team for the upcoming Big Bash League. It is a plus that we can continue to support Putts playing in the local side. We look forward to seeing more of Gary following new Redbacks coach Darren Berry’s initiative to support grade clubs.

Matthew Sugg, Patrick Jolly, Josh Barrett and Steven Ford all return mid-late September following seasons in England. Suggy in particular has been dominating the Poms, leading his league in both average and aggregate. The boys enjoyed an ANZAC day trip to Turkey for the Anzac Cove Dawn Service.

There have been a number of changes for the upcoming season including:

-       * A return to 3 separate competitions in the A grade (no double points games)

-      *  A top 8 elimination finals series for the XXXX one-day competition.

-      *  Returning to first class playing hours for A grade (11am start) and 96 overs in a day. B grade revert to an 11:30am start with 90 over days.

-       *Removal of T20 matches for B/C/D grade from the competition.

-      *  A grade round 1 will be a Sat/Sun match (date TBC)

The club has a new mobile app for iPhone/iPod touch and Android smartphones. Coupled with the new MyCricket app, players and supporters should be able to better keep up to date with news, results, ladders etc. Search for SDCC or stingrays cricket at the app store.

While the club has welcomed many new faces to the committee this season including Bob Bache and Richard Ridley, we still need volunteers for vital game day roles including scoring & managing. If you are keen to help in any of these roles in any grade, please let us know!

More news to come soon…

Stingrays go mobile with iPhone App

Southern District Stingrays today became the first cricket club in Australia to feature a mobile browsing smartphone app at the iTunes AppStore. 

The Sting app features club news and information fed straight from the club website. Users can share content directly to email, Facebook and Twitter direct from the app. "The Sting" includes offline access to laws of cricket, SACA by-laws, SACA grade cricket oval contact numbers and much more.

It is available for download for iPhone/iPod touch from the iTunes appstore and for Android phones from the google market place. A new mycricket app is also available with access to ladders, fixtures and club results.

SACA Youth Squads Announced

Congratulations to Rhys Barrett & Tom Cotter-Gillies have both been included in SACA's U17 youth squad for this season. They Join Matt Overall who has been selected in the U19 squad once again.

Aiden Zammit has been selected to trial for a place in the U15 team, while Ben Layton has been included in an expanded U13/SAPSASA squad.

The club wishes all these lads the best of luck with their development as part of these squads.

Jack Taylor Stars in T20 Debut

Jack Taylor has produced a man-of-the-match performance in his T20 debut for Gloucestershire. Jack outshone Muttiah Muralitharan (1-20) by taking 4-16 including the key wicket of Kieron Pollard. He then smashed 7 boundaries on his way to 38 from 28 balls. Jack had also made his List A debut earlier in the season against Somerset.

Jack spent the 2010/11 season at Southern District as part of the DLCA after University CC withdrew their offer to host him. Jack went on to have the KC Butler medal for the competitions best B grade player wrapped up at Christmas, before propelling the Stingrays into the XXXX One-day cup finals with explosive performances against East Torrens and Glenelg.

The club congratulates Jack on his Debut, and wishes him well for the remainder of the season.