Ahead of the National U19 Male Championships in Perth this month, members of the 2025 WA Cricket Academy and Youth Academy took part in the annual camp.<\/p>\n
Players were treated to a range of activities on the camp, from listening to guest speakers to helping a local charity organisation.<\/p>\n
Guest speakers included former West Coast Eagle Nic Naitanui and newly appointed WA Development Coach Simon Mackin. The camp also saw a continuation of the WA Cricket Pathway Player Development Program, led by consultant Fiona Ryan which provides high-performance mindset support to develop the person behind the player and optimise growth, performance and enjoyment of the game.<\/p>\n
It also provides a golden opportunity for the members of the Academy and Youth Academy to spend crucial time together prior the upcoming National Championship campaigns.<\/p>\n
WA Cricket Pathways Coach \u2013 Male Programs Brian Shields said the camp provided the next generation of players the chance to develop personal skills on and off the field.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a good opportunity for them to get to know players that, although there is a bit of an age gap at the moment, the hope is they\u2019ll get to play together for Western Australia as adults,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey get exposed to some player development with our player development managers here.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe get some special guests in, like Nic Naitanui this year, we had Jack Della Maddalena here and Perth Scorchers players like Cam Bancroft and Sam Whiteman.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe also give an opportunity to the boys to give back and try to expose them to situations where life is bigger than cricket.\u201d<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s community engagement camp activity saw members of the Academy and Youth Academy team up with \u201cDadbury\u201d, a group of volunteers that live in Padbury and neighbouring suburbs.<\/p>\n
Shields said camp participants were set a sizeable task on this occasion.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had 20 able hands able to help a single mother who\u2019s facing some challenging circumstances,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe wanted to build a cubby house for her daughters to play in.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe boys had to paint it and rebuild it under the guidance of carpenters and those there to help.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was really good to see the boys get involved.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were learning to drill, hammer, sand and everything it takes to build the cubby house.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt ended up being five hours on the tools for the boys.<\/p>\n
\u201cMike Maxted, who runs Dadbury, told the boys what they did will have a long-lasting impact far beyond what they probably thought.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shields said activities like this gave the group a chance to lean into the WA men\u2019s team values \u2018trust, humility and committed\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose sorts of engagements give us intel on how our boys operate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey really bought into this activity straight away.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe value the people that come into our programs and out state teams.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s important to be great people and understand where you come from.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe always want our boys to band together as a collective and I feel like we have a pretty special group of players in this academy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of the National U19 Male Championships in Perth this month, members of the 2025 WA Cricket Academy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-319854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319854","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=319854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}