A cricket club is celebrating a major milestone in youth engagement.<\/p>\n
Northallerton Town Cricket Club now has 100 young players in its junior section, marking a doubling of membership over the past three years.<\/p>\n
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The club says this growth has been supported by a \u00a3500 grant from the Broadacres Community Development Fund.<\/p>\n
Vicky Bramma, a coach at the club, said: “The biggest growth area has been at under-9s as that\u2019s where children develop a real passion for the game.<\/p>\n
“That applies as much to girls as boys \u2013 with girls now taking part at every age group.<\/p>\n
“Attracting children to the sport is great but finding the funding to support the expansion can be difficult so this grant is very welcome.”<\/p>\n
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A particularly challenging transition occurs as players move from under-nine to under-11 cricket.<\/p>\n
This stage involves switching from a softball to a hard ball, and learning to run in pads and adapt to new fielding positions.<\/p>\n
Junior coaching sessions are held every Friday from 5.30pm to 8pm at the club\u2019s Farndale Avenue ground.<\/p>\n
Parents are welcome to stay and enjoy the evening, with a bar and barbecue available.<\/p>\n
For more information, visit the club\u2019s Facebook page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cricket club is celebrating a major milestone in youth engagement. Northallerton Town Cricket Club now has 100…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,96595,740,96596,85,96594,96593],"class_list":["post-141754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-broadacres-community-development","tag-cricket","tag-junior-section","tag-sports","tag-vicky-bramma","tag-youth-engagement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}