Three top coaches to hold net ball camp

Manama : Three top English Netball coaches are set to arrive in Bahrain today courtesy of the DHL Bahrain Expatriate Netball League. They will hold an intensive four-day ‘Boot Camp’ aimed to develop the sport in the Kingdom and help prepare teams for the 31st Inter-Gulf Netball Championships in Dubai from March 9-11.

Over the four days (from this evening till Saturday) they will conduct four training for the adult teams at the Bahrain Rugby Football Club in Saar and two sessions for youngsters and the juniors at the Dilmun Sports Club in Saar. An Invitational Team Training for the Junior team will be held at the Rugby Club for those selected to the Inter-Gulf Championships.

The three are Gilly Salter, Sue Wainwright and Linda Dyer. Salter is an ex-England player and captain and is a current National Elite Selector, President of Netball South West and sits on the Performance Group and the Management and Finance Group. She has also worked with England Talent Players at U.19 and U.17 levels and worked with Hucclecote Netball Club in Gloucestershire and at all levels including Premiership UK Division One.

Wainwright is the Chair of Hucclecote NC and former founder of the club over 25 years ago and County Head Scout. She is a recently retired PE Teacher, where she worked at a Girls Grammar school in Gloucester. Wainwright organises and scouts over 200 players each year to go in the County and South West pathway voluntary in running Hucclecote NC, which is the fifth biggest club in the country with thriving U-14, U-16 and U-19s teams all gaining places at National Finals and securing top 10 positions.

Dyer is an ex-England Netball international and during the 1980’s played in the same team as Salter where they won a test series in Jamaica in 1981. She is a qualified teacher and has in recent years taken early retirement to pursue her passion in delivering and education coaches and qualified to deliver the UK CC Coaching Qualifications at L1 and L2.

Dyer has also coached in the Premiership in England, at Satellite Academy through to the higher levels of the England pathway, and is the Lead on the Performance Group in the South West.

In 2014 she successfully applied and gained a role with Netball Europe where she is a Competition Manager organising the European Championships each year and also co-ordinates and organisers with various leagues and workshops in the South West.

These annual ‘Boot Camps’ are also designed to help raise funds for former Hucclecote player Carly Taylor through the charity Carly Taylor Fighting Back, to help with her rehabilitation after suffering a horrendous accident some years back, when she broke three vertebrae in her neck, leaving her paralysed from the neck down.