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SOFTBALL NEW ZEALAND AGM 2010. DIAMOND SPORTS CONCEPT. Change is inevitable. Progress is optional. Your Board is: looking over the horizon searching for opportunities open to ideas exploring and Challenging. OBSERVATIONS. Profile?. Resources?. Relevance?. Contemporary?. PROPOSAL.
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SOFTBALL NEW ZEALAND AGM 2010 DIAMOND SPORTS CONCEPT
Change is inevitable.Progress is optional. • Your Board is: • looking over the horizon • searching for opportunities • open to ideas • exploring and Challenging
OBSERVATIONS Profile? Resources? Relevance? Contemporary?
PROPOSAL Softball Masters T-Ball Slow Pitch Baseball The pitcher’s plate is the common starting point - “ starting out” programs for kids.
EXAMPLES Women’s Artistic Men’s Artistic
PROPOSED APPROACH EXPLORE THE BENEFITS • Strengths of softball • + • Strengths of baseball • + • Strengths of slow pitch • + • Strengths of T-Ball DIAMOND SPORT CONCEPT
OBJECTIVE • Determine whether there is a framework or structure that allows the different formats to work collectively under the concept of Diamond Sports in order to: • Get more kids playing and keep them playing • Improve pathways for players, coaches, umpires, scorers • Increase the profile of the sports • Improve funding and stability
CONSIDERATIONS • administration and overheads • variant by age group • pathways to elite performance • financial implications • field allocations and utilisation • media coverage and Diamond Sports profile • growth opportunities • 2010/2011 project