• Embed Doc
  • Copy Link
  • Readcast
  • Collections
  • CommentGo Back
Download
 
 Wellington Floorball ClubStrategic plan
1. Vision
To introduce, promote and develop floorball as a sport for players of all agesand abilities in the Wellington Region and to establish floorball as a popularteam sport.Establish Wellington Floorball Club as one of the leading floorball clubs inNew Zealand with regards to performance, number of active members,involvement in running school and community floorball programmes andinternational relationships and representatives.
2. Goals
Wellington Floorball Club strives to create a solid member base to ensure thefuture sustainability of the club. This includes setting up teams at highperformance level for men, women and juniors along with social teams forplayers of all ages and skill levels.The club wants to provide high class coaching for all levels and providecertified referees for games and tournaments.Promoting floorball at primary and secondary school level to attract interestedplayers and potentially start up school leagues as seen in other sports is seenas a key element to develop and grow the sport. At the same time it offers agreat opportunity for schools to take up a safe, fun and easy to learn sport asan alternative to existing team sports.Wellington Floorball Club wants to be actively involved in setting up a NZFloorball Federation and to help bring the sport to all regions of New Zealand.
 
3. Brief History of the club
In May 2008 a group of players started playing floorball in Wellington on aregular basis. The group met once a week and slowly grew to about 10players per night. Equipment was the main challenge and initially sticks wereborrowed from Wellington City Council to enable the group to play.A set of basic sticks was purchased by Christian Bertschinger and a set ofproper IFF regulation goals was made. In October 2008 the very firstWellington Floorball Open Tournament took place at the Recreation Centre inKilbirnie. Two teams from the Wellington group plus a team from Blenheimcompeted for the Wellington Open shield, which was won by the team fromBlenheim.Numbers slowely started to increase and in April 2009, the WellingtonFloorball Club was established as an incorporated society with 17 membersattending the inaugural meeting.Currently the club runs a weekly session in Thorndon and a fortnightly sessionin Kilbirnie with a regular attendance of between 10 - 17 players.
4. Current development
Weekly sessions will continue and potentially extra sessions will be introducedto accommodate growing numbers. As the level and intensity of play hassteadily increased amongst the main part of the group, it is envisaged to setup a second group for beginners and offer a workshops as an introduction tothe sport.Wellington Floorball Club is committed to provide quality floorball equipmentand it is envisaged to provide proper goalie equipment, team dresses,additional sets of goals and eventually a demountable full size regulationfloorball rink for training, games and tournaments. The IFF has agreed tosend proper equipment to Wellington to support the club in his efforts whichmeans a 100 quality sticks and 200 balls will be available to both the club andfor floorball programmes with schools.Wellington Floorball Club uses email and the internet to stay in contact with allmembers and to send out information to interested people. Recently afacebook group has been set up and this has been popular with players.Setting up a Wellington Floorball Club website which will be updated regularlyand keep members and interested people informed will be a further step topromote floorball in the Wellington Region.Recent press articles in local newspapers have helped to raise publicawareness of this sport and have triggered interest from various people andalso from schools. It is intended to keep promoting the sport through furtherpress notices, especially in connection with any of the upcoming specialevents.
 
5. Special projects
5.1 IFF Floorball Development Seminar, Wellington 11. - 13. September 09The International Floorball Federation (IFF) has agreed to hold a FloorballDevelopment Seminar in New Zealand to provide training for coaches andreferees. Wellington Floorball Club is hosting this first ever Floorball Seminarin New Zealand. International speakers and lecturers are coming toWellington to provide first class training for both coaches and future referees.Wellington Floorball club is responsible to organise venues, accommodation,the seminar dinner, transport and help in organising course materials.Besides organising this seminar together with the IFF, Wellington FloorballClub will also have eight club members participating in both the coaching andrefereeing part of the seminar. This will ensure that in the future a goodnumber of well trained coaches and certified referees are available inWellington.5.2 Second Wellington Open Floorball Tournament, 10. - 11. October 09Building on the successful first Wellington Open Floorball Tournament in2008, Wellington Floorball Club is hosting this event for the second time. Forthe first time, games will be played on two days and interest from groups inAuckland, Blenheim and Dunedin should ensure that more teams will takepart in this tournament this year.The tournament will be played at the Wellington Council Recreation Centre inKilbirnie which offers a proper full size rink. Certified referees from WellingtonFloorball Club will be available to referee the games. This tournament will bea regular yearly event and will have a set place in the floorball calendar. It isenvisaged that the tournament has got the potential to attract teams fromoverseas in the future and relations with IFF and AOFC will help to furtherestablish it.5.3 School workshops, primary and secondary schools in Wellington RegionFloorball is an easy to learn sport and can be played at all age levels. It isvery popular as a school sport overseas and it is in that area that the sportoriginally started up. Wellington Floorball Club is starting to promote floorballat primary and secondary school level in the Wellington Region throughcollaborating with Sport Wellington and College Sport Wellington.To support this initiative the IFF has agreed to supply free equipment to theclub. Through training at the seminar, qualified coaches will be available torun school workshops for both students and PE teachers. Promoting the sportat school levels is seen as the key element to grow numbers of players andensure a sustainable growth of the sport.
of 00

Leave a Comment

You must be to leave a comment.
Submit
Characters: ...
You must be to leave a comment.
Submit
Characters: ...