TRA Annual General Meeting 2007
COACHING COUNCILS REPORT
ITEMS OF NOTE:
COACH EDUCATION. I was hoping to be able to announce the new AISL coach educa~ tion structure, however many delays, this is not possible. Last October the NC13s of the AISL disciplines met and determined that the current structure did not quite meet their needs. It was a reed that the levels would be: Club instructor, Club Coach, Competition coach, Advanced coach and Performance coach. Please see APPENDIX 1 for further explanation of each level.
Considerable hours have been put into the creation of syllabus, workbooks and manuals or the initial courses ‑ Club Instructor, Club coach and Competition Coach. AISL legal have passed the presented syllabus and workbook documents (as I understand it), and it seemed that promotion and formal announcement was to follow. To date this has not happened by AISL.
During the last National championships 1 informally workshopped a number of State representatives on the content of the Club Instructor and Club Coach syllabus and both SA and WA have conducted highly successful trial courses.
We have now been informed that the Sports Commission has nominated a.... to overhaul the process and continue the push towards completion of all courses, not just the first three. This is in many ways, welcome news, as we are stuck between a rock and a hard place. At the moment, the old Level 2 syllabus has now 'expired" and the ASC will not formally accept a TRA level 2, and the AISL process has not yet completed to the Advanced Coach syllabus. It is ASC intention that all course writing will be finished by the end of 2007.
That will leave the sports to compile and present their intended manuals by that time also. TRA has such manuals ready for adaptation.
The next stage will be the compilation of presenter material and presenter courses suited to the courses. I am pushing for early 2008 on this. AISL will not be conducting presenter's courses at this point.
The first meeting of the AISL Coach's Committee is August 18th 2007. If there is further news to add, you will be advised at the TRA meeting.
With the changes in the system, I do not have what I would consider to be, the most accurate figures of the number of coaches. This table is correct to the best of my knowledge. I am not aware of any oilier courses being conducted, apart from those listed above.
TRA BOOKLETS
The supplies of the TRA Intro booklets have depleted to the point where the first booklet is now unavailable and the second booklet is down to the last 300 or so.
I would request that the booklets are reprinted, with an increase printing of the first book~ let. It would seem that these have been used by many State Associations, and as they are self funding not a cost to TRA.
A quote is being sought from David Hollister, and 1 will advise at the meeting: Part 1 1500 copies and Part 2 1000 copies.
HIGH PERFORMANCE
I have attended the ASA High Performance meetings (Nov 2006, June 2007) and find that we appear to be stalling with respect to some score standards, and hence support for our shooters.
Notes of interest:
In reality we should achieve 4 6 Quota places for the Beijing Olympics apart from that gained by Warren Potent in Mens Prone.
Oceania 2007 Coach/HP Committee will select Oceania team. Team members in B, C, Jnr, U25 will be funding themselves in all areas other than uniform (that is still subject to funds).
rom the AISL Ranking list, there are five shooters who have achieved the Qualifying Score level, not nine as listed by Miro.
arrie Quigley has been invited to undertake a 'cadetship" style coaching involvement within AISL as of lst September 2007.
South Aust is viewed as the next "centre of excellence"
small group of shooters will be participating in the South East Asian Championships in Singapore in early September 2007.
An even smaller group (perhaps three) shooters are in Germany now for an extended training period of one month. I am aware of Sue McCready, Matt Inabinet, Warren Potent.
Olympic Policy is still not available, and 1 find this totally unacceptable to be some 9 weeks from the potential first event (Oceania Champs). I have tried to ensure that all relevant athletes are aware of the probable process (unless of course, changes have been made since the meeting last year when this was discussed)
YOUTH PROGRAMME
As you would have read in the TRA magazine, (Vol 1 2007) AISL conducted a highly successful Youth Camp in December 2006 with guest coach Peter Kurka from the Czech Republic. Aided by Nick Sanders (Sports Science), Scan Richardson (Sports Psych), Sue Carlyon, Gordon deGroen, Carrie Quigley~ Miro Sipek and myself, this was a wonderful week and the participants worked very hard to gain from every session.
This success has lead to the formation of an AISL Youth Program (which was to be announced on July 1st still waiting) to be headed by Nick Sanders. Some of the shooters are already working through Nick with respect to Sport Science.
The complete list of youth to be invited to participate is not yet available. If further details are available by the meeting, I shall update then. The Youth Championships will again be held. This was a successful event in 2006.
LIST OF ITEMS THAT DID NOT OCCUR FOR THE PERIOD
Level 1 Course Presenters Course deferred. Due to changes in the coach education system tern, this has been put on hold until the process is confirmed.
I did not receive any reaction/comment from any State re the presented documents "Shooters Paths" or "Where do Coaches Come From". I cannot confirm if these documents were presented to State Councils.
Only one State responded with intention to conduct any form of coach education or updates. One can only wonder if the States are looking to TRA to initiate such courses.
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE COMING YEAR
1. "That TRA Council confirm the conduct of a week end course presenter's seminars.
This support extends to financial backing of $2.500 per seminar"
This is an ongoing item hope ully fulfilled in the coming year when the courses are confirmed. By ensuring that the presenters are trained to a comparable level, TRA ensures the quality control aspect of the coach training courses. Course presenters will have greater confidence to deliver their material. We can then be confident that potential coaches trained around the country will be presented with similar information and be assessed on a consistent basis.
In practical terms:
Participants to receive course presenter's training
Participants to receive SCATT training
Participants to receive a certificate of participation/completion
One funded person from each State to attend. Any self funded attendees are welcome (limited to 3 per State). TRA to fund the transport component room hire etc SSO to fund the accommodation or the 1 or 2 nights (as applicable approx $100/$150 if fly in early Saturday and leave Sunday pm). Participant to fund meals
2. 'That TRA Council confirm the reprint of the TRA Introductory booklets.
Part 1-15 and Part 2-1
This is a successful item, and is used by the State Associations
BUDGET FOR 2007/2008
APPENDIX 1 ‑ AISL Coaching Structure
This is a hierarchical structure. Each level is a pre‑requisite or the level above it.
Club instructor ‑ AISL accreditation only (60% of shooters operate at this level). This course is aimed at people working with new members at shooting clubs.
Course covers:
‑ Basic technique information
‑ Firearm safety and range etiquette as applied to each club
Club Coach ‑ NCAS accreditation
‑ Beginning Coaching General Principles Course (online or face to face)
Competition coach (38% of shooters operate at this level) This course is aimed at coaches working with shooters who want to improve and train to improve their skills for interclub/state competition.
Course covers:
‑ Psychology and Sports Performance
‑ Physical conditioning
‑ Safety, rules and legislation
‑ More advanced technique instruction and correction ‑ refining techniques to improve accuracy. Includes stance, breathing, trigger control, condition reading
‑ Competition coaching ‑ rules
‑ Equipment maintenance
‑ Basic technology
Advanced coach (5% of shooters operate at this level)
This course is aimed at coaches working with shooters
‑ Pro ram planning
‑ Mental preparation
‑ Physical preparation
Performance coach (0.5% of shooters) This course is aimed at coaches working with shooters who wish to compete at national and international level
‑ Effects of travel and environments
‑ Team management ‑ budgets
‑ Time management
‑ Responsibilities at high level competition
Transition Strategy for existing current coaches into the new AISL coaching structure:
Level 1 coaches ‑ will be automatically converted to "Competition Coaches".
Level 2 coaches ‑ will be automatically converted to 'Advanced Coaches"
Level 3 coaches ‑ will be automatically converted to 'Performance Coaches"
For those existing coaches whose accreditation has expired, AISL will send a letter advising coaches of the new system, and advising them that they will need to complete the updating requirements of the AISL Updating policy within 12 months. After this time, their accreditation will expire.
APPENDIX 2 ‑ Comments from Rifle Report to HP Meeting
Following the review of the program in early 2006 and establishing a new AISL program that focuses on the development of the athletes with the increase of funding towards young and prospective ones and with the full support for the athletes performing at the highest international level, we have finalised our High Performance Program, needed Policies and strategic goals for the next 6 years.
Current Status
Nine athletes achieved PQS for international competitions set by AISL, but we sent very few of them overseas to World Cups (2 to USA and Germany and 4 toThailand), but we will use some of the international competitions during the year to send them to gain international experience.
Warren Potent's performances are his best ever. With the final at the World Championships, two gold medals at the Sydney and Bangkok World Cups, quota for Olympics and qualify~ ing for the World Cup Final, he made the history as the first Australian (rifle) achieving the highest level at world stage and becoming the first on the World Ranking List. His average for the last 14 competitions of 596.6 is the highest average ever recorded for one athlete.
After the series of training camps (26) in 2005 and 2006, we have identified a number of very young athletes with high potential. Some of them have already had the opportunity to perform very successfully both domestically and internationally:
‑ Eddy Nagorka (Vic, 20) top 15 at the World Championship with the PB for more the 20 points and recently in Europe 3 new PBs.
‑ Stella Fe (NSW, 17) new PB 390 at the World Championships.
‑ Alice Styles (ACT, 15) in last 12 months 5 PBs with the last 392 achieved the bronze in Europe.
‑ Matthew Inabinet (Vic, 22) coming back after 12 months break with 591 his new PB and the highest score (Air Rifle) for an Australian in the last 6 years. Also his 115 1 in 3 position is his PB and very promising improvement.
‑ Ada Collins (NSW, 18) new PB of 388 in Europe.
‑ Tim Bourke (Vic, 20), TIm Braybon (Vic, 19), Vitler Tyre (WA, 18), Jaak DeKonning (SA,14) achieved several PBs in the last 12 months.
We finished the last year with a highly successful Youth National Training Camp and AISL Youth Championships in Sydney, with 12 extremely enthusiastic participants, 6 coaches and the Sport Science coordinator all attending. With the program achieving its goal of educating the coaches and pushing the athletes to the maximum and with one of the best coaches in the world (Peter Kurka) accepting my invitation and joining us in Sydney~ the program was a great success.
Considering Warren Potent's fantastic performances, David Clifton challenging Warren with his good scores, Ben Burge struggling at the World Champs but coming back with a 1159 and 1156, his best scores ever in 3 x 40, Sue McCready finally training, and Robyn Van Nus and Susie Smith improving their scores, everything looks positive and 1 believe that we are on the right track to achieve our international success.
Our sports science and medicine coordinator, Nick Sanders, has together with me attended some of our training camps. He has completed tests with our athletes and has delivered sev eral highly informational presentations. Apart from his involvement intraining camps, Nick is continuously liaising with our athletes to offer them professional support (physical, psycological and medical) for their training programs and competitions.
Choosing new coaches to join our program has proven to be a great success. Sue Carlyon and Carrie Quigley, as experienced international shooters and now our new coaches, and Yvonne Hill, Trish Van Nus and Gorden DeGroen, as already established coaches, have dis~ played substantial knowledge and enthusiasm to continue working as part of our High Performance Program. We can expect that their involvement in the program will bring improved results in the future.
(Appendix 2 ‑ by Miro Sipek)
Tricia Van Nus, Coaching Council Convenor.
APPENDIX 3 ‑ AISL Individual Discipline Meeting (minutes)
1. Overview of results: domestic, international, youth
Tricia Van Nus reiterated that the TRA Ranking System is conflicting with AISL Ranking System, TRA Ranking System does not include relevant AISL ranking events e.g. Aus Cups, is confusing for shooters trying to discontinue TRA Ranking System ‑ TRA not being overly cooperative.
All shooters must refer to the AISL Ranking System for AISL team selection NS has discussed issue with TRA president, will continue to follow up.
Summary: Few satisfactory international, domestic results ~ however Warren Potent's performance fantastic!. Some juniors disappointing ‑ lack of training commitment.
2. Nomination criteria
Nomination criteria for 2008 Olympic Games still in the hands of the AOC.
MS asked to change the first selection shoot to WC China not WC Brazil ‑ if WC China too late perhaps have an Aus Cup?
Select team by Feb 2008 only Olympic team to travel in 2008.
Quotas ‑ do we fill them?~..further discussion in November when we know how many we have.
Oceania: Selection policy ‑ top 9 in each event firle does not have a top 9 in each event! AISL to fund A team, fund uniforms for B and C if funds available. NS to discuss with AISL board. Will concentrate on A team for quotas, regardless of age! Quotas expected ‑ 3.
3. Pathways
PQS to be re‑clarified under instruction from lawyer. Change pathway chart to snakes/ladders format ‑ need additional options ‑ W Cups, Commonwealth Games etc.
NS to follow up.
Is pathway working? Not feeding enough from TRA.
NS to discuss with TRA president.
PS asked for full list of HP Squad and Development
DAS x 6 ‑ who? ‑ NS to provide list.
PQS ‑ to remain the same (seniors)
Proposal to remove any reference to PQS for junior/youth selection ‑ selection via coaches
reccommendations/discretion? approved by all to drop PQS for juniors as of 18/6/2007!
CHAIRMAN'S REPORT
AISL JUDGES COMMITTEE
SECRETARY'S REPORT
TREASURER'S REPORT
TECHNICAL COMMITTEE'S REPORT
COACHING COUNCILS REPORT
WEBSITE REPORT