The Tuks X-factor netball clinic offers golden opportunity for school-level netball players as well as coaches and umpires
TuksNetball's annual Tuks X-factor netball clinic, which will be held from this coming weekend, will intensively focus every day on knowledge and skills for players of all school-going ages, as well as referees and coaches.
The year 2023 is a very big year for netball in South Africa.
While the country’s best players will be in action again later this year during the semi-professional Telkom Netball League (TNL), there are also several schools, club and provincial tournaments to look forward to on the local front.
The big news is of course the Netball World Cup tournament, which will be presented in Cape Town from 28 July to 6 August.
Amid all these events on the netball front, the game is growing rapidly as more opportunities are created in professional leagues in Britain and Australasia for local players.
It is no secret that TuksNetball’s contribution to the growth of this popular sport is unparalleled in South Africa – both in terms of quality and quantity.
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Under the able and passionate guidance of the head of program at TuksNetball, Jenny van Dyk, this club has developed a non-stop stream of top players over the past decade.
TuksNetball’s program maintains a holistic approach and players are developed in all possible aspects of the game to prepare themselves to be able to play Netball at any possible level. It is against this background that TuksNetball is once again offering their annual X-Factor Netball Clinic from this weekend (11 February) for a week until Saturday 18 February.
This clinic can be of great help to participants before the official start of the season and in the past participants have testified that they had an advantage over others when it came to trials at school after applying the skills they had learned.
Apart from Van Dyk’s unprecedented success as a coach at all levels, she has already been appointed as the next coach of the SA u.21 team up to and including the u.21 world cup tournament in 2025. This is therefore also a great opportunity for young players to move into Van Dyk’s radar and possibly be noticed early on with an eye to the future.
Young netball players of all school-going ages (7-18) are welcome to register for this clinic. There will be a focus on intensive individual attention to each participant. This includes everything from basic skills to position-specific skills that will be explained and practiced.
The clinic starts on Saturday 11 February with a course for referees. Next week, on four different days, the focus will be on school-age players. Monday it is the turn of 7–9-year-olds, Tuesday the attention will be focused on the 10–12-year-olds, Thursday 13–15-year-olds will be dealt with and Friday (February 17) it will be the turn of the 16-18 year olds.
Wednesday 15 February is set aside as a day of the goal shooters, when players of all ages in this position will be dealt with intensively.
On Saturday 18 February the focus will be on coaches.
Intended participants, please see attached information below for contact details.
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