Trillian Trust Gogirl Program To Be Recognised In NZC Community Cricket Awards

Posted: Tuesday, 11 October 2016

Rebecca Yee

The Trillian Trust Bay of Plenty GoGirl Cricket program will be recognized at the New Zealand Cricket Awards in March 2017, when BOPCA GoGirl Coordinator Rebecca Yee will be presented with the New Zealand Cricket Best Female Engagement Strategy, in a category of the 2015/16 Community Cricket Awards.

The NZC Community Cricket Awards, are recognition of the contribution of Volunteers and Development staff, who put in endless time and commitment into improving the game within their community.

The NZ Cricket GoGirl program was an initiativeundertaken by Northern Districts Cricket four seasons ago and was quickly picked up by Bay of Plenty Cricket. The success of the BOPCA Go-Girl program, is largely the result of Rebecca Yee’s hard work over the past two and a half seasons.

The GoGirl program is the first step in Bay of Plenty Crickets female player pathway, with the strategic aim being to build a strong junior playing base, offer innovative competitions for intermediate and secondary-school aged players, while also ensuring that the best possible opportunities exist for those players who wish to progress to higher honours.

The Bay of Plenty GoGirl Program has met the programs strategies in spades. Bay of Plenty Cricket Manager Tai Bridgman-Raison said “The aim of the program is to give girls in Year Four to Six an opportunity to experience cricket as well as develop fundamental movement skills of catching, throwing, hitting and bowling”.

In Term One the GoGirl program finishes with the Rainbow Cup festival day with the Super 6’s rounding out the Term Four activities. “Last season we had 150 (15 teams) girls play in the Rainbow Cup with 122 (14 teams) youngsters taking part in the Super 6’s”.

BOPCA are starting to see the returns on their investment into women’s cricketwith Tauranga Girls College winning the Northern Districts NZCT Secondary Girls tournament, which will see them play in the NZ Cricket National Finals in December 2016.

Tauranga Intermediate will also head to the NZ Cricket National Finals after annexing the Northern Districts NZ Post Shield competition, with Bay of Plenty taking out the ND Secondary Schoolgirls tournament in December 2015.

“After four seasons of the local GoGirl program, we are finally seeing tangible results from the program as the girls who took part as year 4, 5 and 6’s, move through to Intermediate and Secondary School” said Tai.

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