Cricket is played at Aquinas College with Year 7 & 8’s playing in an Intermediate Competition and the Junior and Senior teams playing in a Western BOP Secondary Schools Competition. Our 1st XI plays in the BOP Reserve Grade Competition.

Aquinas Cricket is an established club which is run by a committee of parents and staff.

Teacher in Charge: Mr Shem Banbury
Phone: 543 2400
Email: sbanbury@aquinas.school.nz
Terms: 1 and 4

Aquinas College Cricket Committee 2021

Paul Wills (Chairperson)
Matt Adsett
Matt Wakelin
Andrew Coster
Jacq Burrell
Vinnie Smith
Andrew Martin

Registrations are now open for the 2022 Season!

To register for Term 1 please click here.

WHERE:   Aquinas School Foyer
WHEN:     2 sessions – 1^st is Wednesday 27th February;   2^nd is Wednesday 6th of March
TIME:       7pm till 8:30pm.

Cost:         $10 per session; Students please pay $10 at the door

The session will give each young athlete the key mental skills required to maintain consistent performance, deal with pressure and maintain poise and authenticity.

Cost of the programme is $10 per student per evening, with parents being free. Each student should have one parent present with them.

Some information about Zane Winslade: MA Sport Psychology, Grad. Dip. Teach, B.SPLS

‘I am a mental performance coach who specialises in helping athletes overcome obstacles and create plans so they can go forward and reach their potential and find that flow more often in sport.

My experience is enriched through a lifelong involvement in sport through coaching and teaching. Now, I work with a variety of athletes and teams in the Bay of Plenty, supporting them to develop the mental skills needed to help them excel in their Sport.

My specialities lie in preparing athletes for consistent performance under pressure, developing a flexible and optimal performance mindset for individuals and teams as well as helping athletes prepare with realistic plans dedicated to helping them achieve their dreams. ‘

Aquinas College appoints professional coach
The Aquinas Cricket Club have taken a big step forward this year and secured the coaching and playing services of an overseas coach.

He will coach all levels from Year 7 to Y13 and coach teams for their midweek interschool games. He will also play for the First X1 in senior reserve grade cricket on Saturdays.

Our player/coach is Tom Piddington, who is a 25 year old English player who plays for the Hadleigh Cricket Club in Suffolk.
Tom is a bowling all rounder who bowls right arm medium fast and bats in the top order anywhere from 1 to 6. He has represented Suffolk at development squad level.
He has an ECB Level 2 coaching qualification and has worked with both adults and children on an individual basis and has delivered holiday coaching programmes and summer camps for school groups.
He has previously filled a player/coach role in Melbourne and is keen to develop his game further as both a player and coach by taking up another off season role.

Tom arrives in NZ on 26th September and will stay until the end of March. He will stay with 4 Aquinas cricketing families over this period, and will accompany the First X1 on the Melbourne trip in January.

2017 Winter Training
Training for the start of the 2017/18 season is well underway. Currently, we have 30 kids involved on our Monday sessions. The boys have had excellent coaching with Dave Johnston (Kane Williamson’s coach), Brett Williamson (Kane’s Dad) and Gareth Hopkins (ex Black Cap and current coach of ND senior men’s T20 team) all offering their expertise.

The sessions provide our players with a technical cricket skills based programme aimed to provide them with a range of skills before the season starts proper.

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For many years we have been trying to best prepare our kids for the rigours of cricket, where their performance and fun in the game is optimized, while their risk of injury is minimized.

To do this we believe that our students need to training correctly, be informed about the latest developments in strength/conditioning and ensure that they have information around appropriate nutrition.

NUTRITION
Below are resources put together by the Millennium Institute around healthy healthy eating, hydration and recovery.

junior athlete

Good Eating for Cricket

hydration

sports recovery

Developing Movement Patterns and Pre Game Preparation: 

What are fundamental movement patterns of Cricket?
General • Locomotion • Manipulation • Stabilisation Specific • Squat • Lunge • Hinge • Push • Pull • Rotate/Twist • Brace in the Three areas of Fielding • Batting • Bowling

How can we develop Fundamental Movement Skills in our sessions? • Warm Up/Activation – Ensure that we are putting an emphasis on preparing for all future sessions. Preparing the Mind and the body for what comes next.

What does pre game/training preparation look like?

• World’s Greatest Stretch

• Single Leg Balance – Single Leg Good Morning Walk

• Squat – Overhead plus duck walk Squat Mobilisers

• & Duck Walk

• Lunge – Overhead plus twist Lunge Walk

Source : Scott Wrenn Northern Districts Cricket 2017

• Run Drills Butt Kicks, High Knees, Running Windmills, Dyna bands, Foam Rollers
• Reaction Games, 5 Catch Stump, Slip Catches, Centipede Catches:
  Source : Matt Adsett