20-07-2016, 09:52 PM
Hi David,
I just wanted to say I think your idea of coaches for age groups is great. Appreciate it might be difficult to resource, but I'd encourage you to go as young as possible (i.e. J8, J9, J10 etc), rather than just U12/U14/U18. If the sections are too small, they can always be merged.
I also really like the idea of the pyramid model - with the Primary Individual feeding into the Quadrangler etc.
I'd like to make a suggestion; I think CS was more explicit about how you qualify for the Primary Individual. For example you could give qualification spots to Primary winners of Junior Congresses, regional primary championships, age group winners at SJC age champs, winners or the girls champs, leaders of grand prixs etc, biggest primary giant killer etc. You could then give most of the rest of the spots by grading list and retain a handful of wildcards. You could get quite imaginative with it, call it the 'Race to Dolphin House' or something similar - with a regularly updated 'leaderboard', I think the kids would love it.
I'm sure some of this is already happening in practice, but being explicit about it I think would have some practical benefits to growing the game at primary school level - and might encourage players to play more outside of their local events.
Martin
I just wanted to say I think your idea of coaches for age groups is great. Appreciate it might be difficult to resource, but I'd encourage you to go as young as possible (i.e. J8, J9, J10 etc), rather than just U12/U14/U18. If the sections are too small, they can always be merged.
I also really like the idea of the pyramid model - with the Primary Individual feeding into the Quadrangler etc.
I'd like to make a suggestion; I think CS was more explicit about how you qualify for the Primary Individual. For example you could give qualification spots to Primary winners of Junior Congresses, regional primary championships, age group winners at SJC age champs, winners or the girls champs, leaders of grand prixs etc, biggest primary giant killer etc. You could then give most of the rest of the spots by grading list and retain a handful of wildcards. You could get quite imaginative with it, call it the 'Race to Dolphin House' or something similar - with a regularly updated 'leaderboard', I think the kids would love it.
I'm sure some of this is already happening in practice, but being explicit about it I think would have some practical benefits to growing the game at primary school level - and might encourage players to play more outside of their local events.
Martin