City of Edinburgh Basketball Club: coaching

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Coaching vacancies - updated

The Club has the following vacancies at the moment :

We currently have vacancies for positions in After School Clubs with our partner schools. These are paid coaching positions but the candidate needs to be available from 3:50pm and willing to commit to the whole academic year. The preferred candidates will have their UKCC Level 1 qualification.
City of Edinburgh Basketball Club has a vacancy for a coach for their Senior Men's Local League team. The preferred candidate will have their UKCC Level 1 qualification or higher. The Club will support the candidate in attaining further coaching qualifications as required. The candidate should have experience of coaching adults. This is a volunteer position but the Club will provide financial support for coach development.

These are opportunities to become part of one of the biggest sports clubs in the country and be mentored by some of the top coaches in Scotland. Interested parties in either of these positions should email cityofedinburgh@gmail.com for an application form.

Summer Training arrangements

This year the Club are offering our members some skills training sessions over the Summer holidays. These will be at Holy Rood High School and will cost £2 per session. The sessions are :

Thursday 3rd July, 10th July, 24th July, 31st July, 7th August

6pm until 7pm

Under 12s boys and girls
Under 14 boys and girls

7pm until 8:30pm

Under 16 boys and girls
Under 18 boys and girls

8:30pm until 9:45

Senior Men and Women scrimmage.

Skills drop in session

Just to remind you, we are doing a one-day skills drop in session at Holy Rood High School on 30th December 2013.

This is open to Club members only and is being coordinated by Craig Nicol. We are delighted that many of our most senior coaches are giving up their time to come along and coach during the holidays.

These will be mixed sessions (gender and age groups) as outlined below and will be a chance for different training groups to work together. The date will be organised in 2 hour slots and to help offset the hall costs, players will be asked to pay £1 per 2 hour slot, players are welcome to attend more than 1 slot although please note the last slot is only for U18s and Seniors.

The outline structure of the sessions is:

9.30-11.30: U12s Skills workout (Shooting, Footwork, Getting Open, Individual Defence)
12.00-14.00: U14s, U16s, U18s and Seniors Skills Workout (Shooting, Passing & Receiving, Finishing, Ball Handling, Getting Open)
14.00-16:00: U14s, U16s, U18s and Seniors Individual & Team Defence Principles
16:00-18:00: U18s and Seniors Shooting & Scrimmage

No need to let us know if you are coming, just turn up on the day.

City of Edinburgh continues its commitment to player and coach development

As part of the Club's ongoing commitment to our members' development, City of Edinburgh are the only Club in Scotland to run in-house UKCC Level 1 and Level 2 courses. We are extremely fortunate to have our own qualified tutor in Jim Wright who as well as coaching our Junior Men's team, is studying for his Masters in Elite Sport Performance.

The most recent Level 1 course graduates are pictured below with Jim and fellow tutor Adrienne Hunter. Congratulations to Club members Amy Fraser, Cara Targett-Ness, Mateuz Krucsynski, Finny Paterson, Chelsea Stinson, James Scott, Ryan Brown, Sam MacArthur, Doug Leslie and Matt Wingate.

We are also part of the way through a UKCC Level 2. The students are pictured below, Tracey Phillips, Roddy Gordon, Steven Dickson, Katie McBrierty, Rhys Jones, Jenny Simpson, Derek Ferguson, Mark Stevenson and Emma Brady.

We wish everyone well with the remainder of their course.

East & Central Coaching Awards

Congratulations to Kara Gillies who has won the East and Central Young Coach of the Year Award and to Brian Findlay was has won this year's Special Recognition Award.

Kara Gillies: East & Central Coaching Awards - Young Coach of the Region‏

Kara has been a member of the club for over 10 years, playing at Cadette, Junior and Senior level.

She first became involved in coaching about 5 years ago, taking the Level 1 coaching award and working with the Club's Sunday Hoops and under 12 age group.

She fairly quickly moved on to her Level 2 coaching award and took over the Club's National League Cadette team, where for the last 2 years she really has found her feet as a coach and got the best out of her players.

She always produces demanding, organised, well-structured yet fun training sessions and has successfully developed several young players who are now members of the National Squad.

Well done Kara!

Brian Findlay: East & Central Coaching Awards - Regional Special Recognition Award‏

Brian has been involved in Basketball for almost 40 years, beginning from his teaching days at Castlebrae High School.

When he moved to Portobello High, he was instrumental (along with Tony Szifris) in the founding of the Kool Kats club in the late 80's.

For many years he has been the very successful Head Coach of the Kats Junior women's squad as well as assistant coach to our Senior team.

Many players, through the years, owe their success to Brian, perhaps none more so than our very own Olympian Rose Anderson.

As well as his commitment to developing the players of the future Brian works tirelessly behind the scenes at City of Edinburgh planning our fixtures and is usually one of the first on site on 'Basketball Saturdays' setting up bleachers and tables as well as sweeping the games hall floor!

Although Brian decided that last season would be his last year as a Head Coach he will still assist Ben Gunn on the Senior Women’s team.

Many congratulations to Brian from all at the Club on this well deserved award.

Welcome to Craig!

We are pleased to welcome Craig Nicol who is joining the Club as a member of our coaching team for the new season.

Craig will be assisting Jim Wright and Doug Reilly with the U18 and Senior Men's teams respectively.

For those who do not know Craig, he has many years of coaching experience, including time spent at both Falkirk Fury and Stirling Knights. He has also been involved with the Scotland Development squads at many different age group levels. For the last few years however he has been in England with the Medway Park Crusaders basketball club.

As a player, he started out at Dunfermline Reign but has most recently turned out for Stirling Knights.

We are sure everyone will make him feel very welcome.

East & Central Region Coaching Awards

The Club is pleased to announce that Steven Dickson and Janie McBrierty have both picked up East & Central Region Coaching Awards for the season 2011-12.

Steven, Head Coach for our the U16 Men, has been named Young Coach of the Year.

Meanwhile Janie, our U12s Head Coach, was awarded the prize for Young Persons' Coach of the Year.

The awards were presented at Portobello High school on Saturday 10 November by Dave Evans, the basketballscotland East & Central Regional Development Officer.

Many congratulations to both award winners.

Junior Men (U18) Division 2 Coach

Are you interested in getting involved in coaching? We have a vacancy for an assistant coach for the U18 Junior Men Division 2 team.

The assistant coach will work with Head Coach Jim Wright in training, team selection and game day coaching. The Division 2 games are once a month on a Sunday and training is Tuesday and Thursday 7pm until 8.30pm.

If you are currently a player, as an assistant coach you would then be entitled to a 50% reduction in your subscription fees.

Ideally you would be at least UKCC Level 1 qualified but the Club would be willing to put you through this course if necessary. If you are interested, please email the Club email address (cityofedinburgh@gmail.com) with your details.

UKCC Level 1 coaching awards

Many congratulations to the following club members on their successful completion of the UKCC Level 1 coaching award:

Tracey Phillips
Paul Storie
Dale Gilmour
Neil Rowan
Holly Gordon
Abbie Wheeler
Shannon Purves

Ciara Purves
Emma Brady
Rhys Jones
Robyn Love
Kirsten Simpson
Lauren Ness
Nicole Marshall

Olympic Ambition Programme‏

Congratulations to our Senior Men's coach, Doug Reilly, who has been named by the British Olympic Association as a participant on this year's 2012 Olympic Ambition Programme.

You can find out more information about the programme on the Team GB website.

Only Girls Allowed Basketball - Sunday 27th May

Around 40 girls took part in the City of Edinburgh Basketball Club’s "Only Girls Allowed" basketball session on Sunday 27th May.

This was an event run in conjunction with Active Schools and basketballscotland with funding provided by the City of Edinburgh Council’s Activcity programme. The aim of the session was to get more girls involved in basketball during their primary school years.

The girls came from all over Edinburgh and were coached by some of the players from the Club. At the end of the session the girls were given a basketball to encourage them to keep practising at home and they were invited to attend the Great Britain Women’s game at Meadowbank on 9th June 2012, as guests of the Club.

The girls will also be going to cheer on the U14 Scotland girls who are playing before the GB women. A special cheer will be reserved for ex-City of Edinburgh player Rose Anderson when she takes to the court for GB.

Thanks to Janie, Sarah, Emma, Lauren, Ciara, Shannon, Holly, Katie, Liz, Finny, Kara, Niamh, Tia, Georgia, Rachael, Pollyanna and Laura for all their fantastic coaching and help. Also thanks to Derek and Paul for their assistance.

Sunday Hoops - It's Back!

Sunday Hoops is returning with new coaches and a new home.

Due to support from basketballscotland's FutureClubz initiative we are now in a position to offer a 10 Week block of Sunday Hoops at the incredible value of £10 for the block as a "welcome back" gift!

The new coaching team will consist of Jim Wright and Derek Ferguson with support from some of our junior players. Jim's role as well as head coach will be to mentor and develop our younger coaches so if you are interested in getting a start in coaching then please let us know.

Sunday Hoops will now be based at Holy Rood High School to take advantage of the height adjustable baskets and the competitive Sunday rate! So if you have a friend or family member who is aged 8-10 years old then this will be the ideal way to introduce them to basketball.

Sunday Hoops will aim to get the basic skills in place that will enable them to move onto Under 12s and beyond.

The course will be at 10am until 11am and will run for 10 weeks between Sunday 22nd April and Sunday 24th June and is aimed at Primary 4 and Primary 5 pupils, both boys and girls.

Older primary school children are welcome to attend our Under 12s sessions.

Anyone interested in joining up should email the club at cityofedinburgh@gmail.com to ask for an application form, don't delay as numbers are limited.

East/Central Regional Development Clinic

basketballscotland is delighted to announce that Oscar De Paula is travelling to Scotland to present a clinic focusing on ‘Dynamic Practices for Under 12 Players’.

The details are as follows:
Date: Saturday 23rd of July
Time: 3pm – 7pm
Venue: Forrester High School, Edinburgh
Cost: £5 admittance to the clinic/£20 to attend the clinic and coaches dinner

Oscar De Paula is currently the Head Coach for the U18 Men Division 1 team, St Josep Badalona. Amongst other commitments Oscar is currently involved with/has been involved with the following projects:
- Coach U12 basketball for 6 seasons at CB Montcada and La Salle Montcada.
- Coach for U12 Catalonian Regional Team 2001.
- Coach at Elite Jove Camp since 2003.
- Technical Director at Sagrat Cor Montcada School since 2008.
- Head Coach for U14 and U16 teams at CB L’Hospitalet during 6 seasons, including some Final Four appearances.

Nicola McBrierty will also present a brief session on Warm Up Practices for U12 players. Nicola is currently involved with the following projects at basketballscotland:
- Currently is U15 Girls National Team Assistant Coach and U14 Girls National Team Head Coach
- Head Coach at City of Edinburgh Council Basketball Academy
- Former National Squad Player

The format of the day is as follows:
3.00 Introduction
3.15 Oscar De Paula (part I)
4.30 Nic McBrierty
5.00 Coaching Awards presentation
5.20 Oscar De Paula (part II)
6.40 Finish

Coaches are also invited to attend a coaches dinner after the clinic. The dinner which will kick of at 7:45pm in Zizzis Restaurant (42 - 45 Queensferry Street, Edinburgh) is a great opportunity to meet Oscar and network with like minded basketball coaches.

If you would like to attend the clinic please contact Luis Romero East/Central Regional Co-ordinator (east.central@basketball-scotland.com) as soon as possible and by Wednesday 13th of July at the latest. You should confirm with Luis if you will be attending the clinic only or the clinic and the coaches dinner. Places will be confirmed on receipt of payment.

Pre season begins!

You should now have all had an email from the committee outlining the coaching changes for next season and encouraging everyone to now start attending the training sessions for the age group that they will play in next season. Please see the individual team pages for the details of training times from now until the summer break.

Coaching awards

After such a great weekend for the club, let's get some recognition for our fantastic coaches. The nominations for the Regional Coaches of the Year are now open. To find out more click here.

Kings coach to present at "Coaching Counts"

Once again our very own Doug Reilly has been signed up to present at this year's Coaching Counts conference for coaches. The conference "aims to give local coaches the opportunity to learn from Scotland’s best" so congratulations to Doug for this recognition.

For more details click here.

Level 2 coaching course

Sign up now for the UKCC Level 2 course scheduled on the 16/17 Oct, 4/5/11 Dec in East Lothian. Candidates must be 18 years of age on day 1 and hold a Level 1 certificate prior to day 1 of the course. Scholarships available. For further information contact rwoodhead@eastlothian.gov.uk

UKCC Level 1 Coaching course details

Sunday 29th August and Sunday 19th September 2010
Portobello High School
9.00am till 5.00pm

Candidates must attend both days.

The minimum age is 16 years old.

A minimum of 8 and a maximum of 12 people on the course.

Candidates are required to coach 3 sessions in between day 1 and day 2.

For course registration and scholarship forms please email: Janie.mcbrierty@btinternet.com

For further information and requirements on all UKCC Basketball Coaching courses click here.

Hoopsclinic Easter Camp

Hoopsclinic Basketball Camps returns to Edinburgh this Easter following on from the success of last year's camp which saw over 40 kids from all over Edinburgh come together for a week of basketball and fun.

This year's Hoopsclinic will run from Tuesday 6th April until Friday 9th April. There will be two camps for different age categories, the first one will run from 10am till 1pm and will be aimed at the primary school age group while the 1pm till 4pm will attract the secondary school ballers!

Both camps will take place at Portobello High School and are run in association with City of Edinburgh Basketball Club, one of the most successful and biggest clubs in Scotland.

Hoopsclinic founder and Irish basketball star, Paul Cummins will return with current Scotland internationalist Garreth Lodge to deliver the camp and put the children through their paces for the week with some special guest appearances lined up from some international and professional basketball players throughout the week!

If you would like more information on the camps please call Garreth Lodge on 07786 388 757, email us at hoopsclinic@googlemail.com or visit our website www.hoopsclinic.com to download an application form.

Coaching masterclass!

Our very own Doug Reilly will be passing on his many years of coaching wisdom at Coaching Counts 2010.

Click here to go to the basketball scotland website for more details.

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