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Any grassroots volunteer coach can be nominated. There are three award categories – "student‟, "general‟ and "lifetime‟. The awards will be decided by your local regional sports trust.
Three nominated coaches in each region are also awarded regional titles. Award winners win a generous supply of Wattie‟s products, coaching apparel from SPARC, and one regional award winner also receives a coach development opportunity from SPARC.
There are more than 70,000 volunteer coaches in New Zealand from students to octogenarians. They volunteer literally millions of hours of their time to the community.
“Add up all their volunteer hours and it‟s just staggering”, says SPARC Chief Executive, Peter Miskimmin.
“Without their massive contribution none of us could enjoy and develop our skills in community sport – our coaches need to be recognised” says Miskimmin.
Nominations can be made online by visiting www.sparc.org.nz/volunteers or by picking up an entry from your Regional Sports Trust.
The student category is open to school-aged coaches, while the lifetime category is for people who have devoted 25 years or more to coaching. The general category is for all other community coaches.
For information about the Awards in your area, please contact your local regional sports trust.
The 17 regional sports trusts are: Sport Northland, Harbour Sport, Sport Waitakere, Sport Auckland, Counties Manukau Sport, Sport Waikato, Sport Bay of Plenty, Sport Taranaki, Sport Wanganui, Sport Gisborne, Sport Hawke's Bay, Sport Manawatu, Sport Wellington, Sport Tasman, Canterbury West Coast Sports Trust, Sport Otago, Sport Southland.
Nominations close midnight 8 September 2010.
For more information and to volunteer a coach, click on the link below.
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