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Key Indicators of a Successful Junior Club

also - how can you 'rate' a div 2 coach if it's the div 1 coach that runs the training for both teams ? IMHO , more games are won by the work done in training than by the decision of the coach in the game.

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I suspect that many Div 2 coaches are often happy to stay at Div 2 at a strong club , where the development work is done for them the year before by the previous age groups Div 1 coach, rather than transfer to a weak club and have to start from scratch.

it seems that it is more likely that some div 1 coach gets the proverbials about not getting the appointment they wanted ( or their kids getting not getting theirs) and then shift elsewhere.

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Successful junior clubs over the long term ( 8-12 years) are those that recognise that good coaches are harder to find than good players, and that good age / team co-coordinators are FAR harder to find than bad parents.

Good coaches develop good players, have these coaches at the u10 and u12 level and you have it made. Because then your u14 players actually attract better coaches and the cycle perpetuates.

As soon as you let a parent coach their own child , or allow coaches to follow "their" players up an age group, you are now on the downward slope.

good coaches do not want to do administrative stuff - recruit good managers who will do that for them - and you can attract and keep the coaches.

Virulently Protect both from the over enthusiastic parent .(NB if every few seasons the club kicks a "good" player out because of their parents, you will then find the other parents pull their head in - losing one player and a pair of disruptive parents is actually GREAT for the rest of the club)

Melbourne tigers had a great junior program for years, their head u12 coach for years was one of the most experienced senior coaches in the state - Ken Watson.

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It all depends on what is deemed to be successful? What is important to your members and your club?

Start with working out what your club deems and impoprtant and then start working it out from there.

Indicators could cover areas such as:
- Financial Eg. Profit/Loss, revenue growth etc
- Particpation rates Eg. No. players, growth etc
- Player Retention rates
- No. of elite teams
- On court success Eg. premierships
- Junior to senior transition
- Coach attraction, development, retention, growth etc

Hope this helps.

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