CPD Course: Strength and Conditioning for Young Players

On Wednesday 20th January Richard Ferris and several other tutors rolled out a Coach Education course around strength and conditioning for young players at Roe Valley Leisure Centre, Limavady. It was a slightly disappointing turn out of coaches (22) but the night was first class, great variety. There was various stations; Cardiovascular, Core Stability, Total Body, Legs, Back Chest Shoulders and Arms with various ranges of equipment to preform the exercises using proper technique. Thanks to the followings tutors Kevin Kelly, Francis Scullion, Dairmuid Scullion, Paul Simpson and Eamon Ferris. Also a big thank you to the Derry Vocational School team for participating. Each player left with a 6 week programme.

Foundation Course for Derry City Clubs

Derry City Council provided funding to roll out a Foundation GAA Coaching Course on Saturday past. The Course was held at Steelstown GAC, despite the terrible weather conditions 35 coaches done the course delivered by Paul Simpson and Kevin Hinphey

Club Underage Structure Night @ Owenbeg

On Wednesday 13th January we held a Club Underage Structure Night to give all the underage coaches in the County an idea as to what direction Coaching and Games was taking in 2010. Over 100 coaches were welcomed by County Chairman John Keenan who praised them all for the excellent work they have been doing with our underage. Chris Collins and the other full time coaches presented the format for 2010.

A copy of the presentation can be found on the Derry Website

Glenullin Road to Croker

Glenullin recently ran their "Road to Croker" tournament in the Club Hall. County Players Gerard O'Kane and Brian Mullan attended the event to give their support to the young players. The programme included P.5, 6 and 7 children. The teams were split up into Armagh, Dublin, Cork and Kerry and they played against eachother every week.

Kerry and Cork played in the final with Kerry coming out the stronger. The most improved player with young Joseph O'Hagan. Glenullin are now entered into the free prize draw sponsored by Club Derry for a trip to Croke Park

New Foundation Coaching Course @ Swatragh GAC

On Saturday 9th January despite the heavy snow Swatragh GAC hosted a new GAA foundation course for their coaches. Chris Collins and Richard Ferris delivered the course to 24 coaches. Thanks to all the coaches who attended, they certainly applied themselves very well!

Gaelic Start @ Ogramore

During the month of November and December, coaches Ronan Devlin, Ruairi Convery and Diarmuid Scullion delivered the Gaelic Start Porgramme to the children from Ogramore. There was an increase of 50% in terms of children taking part from the start of the programme to the conclusion of it. Well done to everyone involved

Gaelic Start @ Desertmartin GAC

This morning Ruairi Convery, Ronan Devlin and Diarmuid Scullion were in Desertmartin club hall to introduce the Gaelic Start programme to the clubs Key Stage 1 children and the parents that arrived to help out. Despite the heavy snow there was an excellent turnout and everyone really enjoyed the session.

St. Pius Lower 6th Enrichment Programme

Diarmuid Scullion, Magherafelt GPO recently delivered a fundamentals session to young coaches studying at St. Pius, Magherafelt as part of their enrichment programme.

Congratulations

Warm congratulations to both Lavey Camog's and Ballinascreen Hurlers with their respective All Ireland and Ulster success. Great to see silverware coming back to the County. Fiar play to all the players and their management teams! (Pictures taken by Sportsfile and Colm Heron)

Nollaig Shona

A special word of thanks to all the club coaches and administrators who helped with the delivery of the 2009 coaching programme. Enjoy the break over Christmas!

From all the Derry Coaching and Games Staff