2011-12 Annual Report - Australian Water Polo Inc
2011-12 Annual Report - Australian Water Polo Inc
2011-12 Annual Report - Australian Water Polo Inc
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WATER POLO AUSTRALIA <strong>2011</strong>/<strong>12</strong> ANNUAL REPORT<br />
National Development<br />
<strong>Report</strong><br />
<strong>12</strong><br />
<strong>2011</strong>-<strong>12</strong> has been a<br />
research year into<br />
what development<br />
currently occurs<br />
across the country<br />
including how each<br />
state implements<br />
their development<br />
programs and what<br />
resources they have<br />
and might need in the<br />
future.<br />
Grass route levels of our sport will provide<br />
the base for our high performance programs<br />
in years to come and is something not to be<br />
neglected. The aim of the past <strong>12</strong> months<br />
has been to identify target areas for each<br />
state and draw on their resources as a whole<br />
allowing a national plan to be put together<br />
to ensure better use of recourses, time<br />
and money. The next <strong>12</strong> months will see<br />
these various aspects rolled out including<br />
a new national development plan including<br />
accreditation framework.<br />
Some of the highlights for the year include:<br />
Flippa BallTM<br />
The development of Flippa BallTM has been<br />
ongoing across the country and will continue<br />
as the entry level program within Australia. A<br />
Special mention must go to Tasmanian <strong>Water</strong><br />
<strong>Polo</strong> for inroads to an ongoing Flippa Ball<br />
competition in their program, the program<br />
has seen over 100 participants in and weekin-week<br />
out competition. The next <strong>12</strong> months<br />
will see new recourses and programs be<br />
available for each state to roll out including<br />
lesson plans, video demonstrations, posters<br />
and introduction packs for regional and<br />
remote school to facilitate the knowledge of<br />
Flippa BallTM.<br />
Facilities<br />
Across the country the hardest issue for<br />
water polo is access to facilities. In the past<br />
twelve months there has been significant<br />
increase of water polo specific facilities<br />
across Queensland, New South Wales<br />
and South Australia. These include the<br />
Stuartholme School in Brisbane, University<br />
of Southern Cross in Lismore and South<br />
<strong>Australian</strong> Aquatic Centre in Adelaide.<br />
With the continued growth of the sport<br />
it is important for us to continue to work<br />
with local councils as well as state and<br />
national governments to ensure any new or<br />
renovations on aquatic complexes cater for<br />
our growing sport.<br />
National Coach and Referee<br />
Accreditation<br />
The introduction of the new framework in<br />
2009 is currently under review, and will see<br />
the introduction of new levels and course<br />
material in February 2013. Overall the<br />
past twelve months has seen the highest<br />
retention rate of both coach and referees<br />
with only five percent discontinuing their<br />
accreditation compared with fourteen the<br />
previous year. The number of coach and<br />
referees commencing their accreditation and<br />
achieving competencies in <strong>2011</strong>/<strong>12</strong> has also<br />
been record breaking, with 16 percent of the<br />
total number of accredited personal started<br />
the process in the past <strong>12</strong> months.<br />
State<br />
Table 2 and figure 1 (below) provides an<br />
overview into the numbers of accredited<br />
personal at each level across Australia.<br />
In 2009 a re-vamp of the accreditation<br />
framework saw many coaches and referees<br />
complete the formal qualification, however<br />
in the years preceding the retention of<br />
personal has been poor. 20<strong>12</strong> however has<br />
shown a change in pattern and something<br />
which the sport will be working towards to<br />
care for the participants by ensuring there<br />
are correctly accredited coaches and officials<br />
on pool deck. Along with the retention and<br />
ongoing new accreditations, 2013 will see<br />
the a new framework which will encourage<br />
level 1 accredited personal to progress their<br />
formal water polo knowledge to level 2 and<br />
3, currently only 9 percent have progressed<br />
to level two or three.<br />
Jodie Watson<br />
ACT NSW QLD SA TAS VIC WA Total<br />
Coach 2 219 119 5 0 28 21 394<br />
Official 19 140 115 24 5 11 66 380<br />
Total 21 359 234 29 5 39 87 774<br />
Table 1 - breakdown of current accredited<br />
coaches and referees across the country<br />
for the past <strong>12</strong> months.<br />
2008 2009 2010 <strong>2011</strong> 20<strong>12</strong><br />
Level 1 909 1159 921 587 646<br />
Level 2 31 93 88 71 60<br />
Level 3 1 4 4 4 3<br />
Total 941 <strong>12</strong>56 1013 662 709<br />
Table 2 – <strong>2011</strong>/<strong>12</strong> Current accreditation<br />
breakdown by levels<br />
1400<br />
<strong>12</strong>00<br />
1000<br />
800<br />
Level 1<br />
600<br />
Level 2<br />
Level 3<br />
400<br />
200<br />
Photo Credit: Anthony Pearse, Pearse Photography<br />
0<br />
2008 2009 2010 <strong>2011</strong> 20<strong>12</strong><br />
Figure 1 – <strong>2011</strong>/<strong>12</strong> Current accreditation breakdown by levels