​Baseball NSW would like to announce the appointment of Belinda Woolford to its Board of Directors. Belinda is filling a casual vacancy left by the resignation of Elected Director, Karl Hardman.
 
Baseball NSW would like to thank Karl for his substantial contribution to the strategic partnerships, stakeholder engagement, commercial engagement and strategic development of Baseball NSW and wishes him the best of luck with his future endeavors.
 
In a professional capacity, Belinda is currently the Chief Executive Officer at Ronald McDonald House Charities Greater Western Sydney. Having been with the organization for seven years, Belinda’s responsibilities included the development and implementation of the strategic plan, managing financial resources, and ensuring compliance with all relevant legal requirements.
 
Belinda was also previously responsible for all areas of Sponsorship, Media, PR, Events, Sales, Promotions, Communications and Branding of Football in NSW. Leading the marketing, digital communications, sponsorship, events and public relations team to ensure that they achieved the objectives to deliver the Football NSW strategic plan.
 
Her corporate acumen in leadership, planning and strategy at a not-for-profit organization will be of great added value to an already impressive Board of Directors. Belinda has taken on the portfolio of Tool & Tech, Commercial, and BVM.

To Our Members,

From Monday 13 September, people across NSW who have received both doses of a COVID-19 vaccine will be allowed more freedoms.

For those who live outside the LGAs of concern, up to 5 fully vaccinated adults can engage in outdoor recreation (this does not constitute community sport) in a person’s LGA or within 5km of home. Children under 12 will not be counted in this total.

For those who live in the LGAs of concern, a household with all adults vaccinated will be able to engage in outdoor recreation (including picnics) for up to 2 hours within the existing rules (outside of curfew hours and within 5km of home). This is in addition to the ability to engage in outdoor exercise.

People who live alone can gather with one other adult to participate in outdoor recreation within the same existing rules.

Furthermore, the NSW Government made announcements relating to the stay-at-home orders lifting for some local government areas in regional NSW from 12:01am Saturday 11 September, and the release of the roadmap outlining freedoms after NSW passes the 70 per cent double vaccination target.
 
We advise our members to adhere to the Public Health Order. 

For all the details, download the announcement.

The Hunter Medical Research Institute is holding a special sports concussion seminar for parents, players, and coaches across NSW, focusing on schools and communities where contact sport such as League, Union, Hockey, Cricket and Netball are played - for world concussion day.
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When: Thursday 16 September
Time: 6.00 pm - 7.00 pm
Where: Streamed online via Zoom and Facebook Live
Cost: Free

Sport NSW is proud to launch the NSW Sports Awards for 2021.

The Sports Awards have been running since 1994, and serve to celebrate the achievements of NSW athletes, coaches, officials, administrators and organisations on an annual basis.

Members are invited to nominate individuals, teams and organisations, after which an independent selection panel will determine the finalists and winners of each award.

​Nominations must be endorsed by a Sport NSW member organisation and are for achievements from 1 October 2020 to 30 September 2021.
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Nominations close 11:59PM TUESDAY 5TH OCTOBER 2021

St Bishoy College, Mount Druitt have been kind enough to offer a huge opportunity to work collaboratively for the benefit of primary and secondary students in the Blacktown LGA.
 
The College is a K-12 independent school in the Mt Druitt area and with a student population in the mid 300’s, it prides itself on being focused on the student experience in all that it does.
 
This year, the College has been listed for a fifth year in a row in the top achievers' list for NAPLAN results in NSW. The college is offering students who identify as excelling in sports and fitness an opportunity to apply for a full-tuition subsidy at St Bishoy.
 
Candidates are invited to complete the attached application form and attach a supporting reference from the sporting organization that attests to the student’s sporting success and attitudinal competencies that would support their success at St Bishoy.

Sport NSW has announced the return of the Fast Track for Female Coaches Course.
 
Although separate from the BNSW Coach Accreditation Courses, Fast Track aims to connect aspiring female coaches, provide exclusive insight and further develop their coaching and leadership behaviours and competencies - building capability and readiness as they fast track through the coaching talent pathway.
 
The course will commence on Tuesday, 12 October 2021 and run for six weeks with the final session held on Tuesday, 16 November 2021.
 
The online workshops will run weekly on Tuesday evenings from 6.00pm – 8.00pm, and will be delivered by ACPE academics plus industry-leading experts and experienced coaches from a variety of backgrounds.
 
Places are extremely limited and expressions of interest are now open.