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Torquay Cricket Club\u2019s Zoe Lewis with her awards for Cricket Blast Coordinator of the Year from Cricket Australia and Cricket Victoria. Photo: James Taylor.<\/p>\nTORQUAY Cricket Club\u2019s Zoe Lewis says the plaudit of being the nation\u2019s best Cricket Blast coordinator should go to the whole club, not just her.<\/p>\n
Lewis was first named the top coordinator in Victoria by Cricket Victoria before going on to win nationally at Cricket Australia\u2019s 2025\u201326 Community Cricket Awards earlier this month.<\/p>\n
Cricket Blast is the entry-level version of cricket for children aged up to 10 \u2013 akin to Auskick for the AFL \u2013 and features skill-based activities and modified games with an emphasis on fun.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a great acknowledgement, but I\u2019m pretty embarrassed,\u201d Lewis said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s something that I feel like is part of the cricket club, not just an individual award. The senior players, the women\u2019s and the men\u2019s have a big role in our program and the cricket committee do a lot of work as well behind the scenes using my planning to make it work.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lewis first became involved as a volunteer three years ago when her husband Mark took on the role of vice-president at the club and their daughter took up Cricket Blast.<\/p>\n
Torquay Cricket Club\u2019s Zoe Lewis with her awards for Cricket Blast Coordinator of the Year from Cricket Australia and Cricket Victoria. Photo: James Taylor.<\/p>\n
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A physical education teacher, Lewis has grown Torquay\u2019s Cricket Blast program into one of the largest in the Geelong region, with participation leaping from 31 children to more than 130 children in the space of two seasons.<\/p>\n
She attributed the growth to good planning and lots of help from the club\u2019s committee and senior players.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s small groups; we don\u2019t want the kids standing around for too long so there\u2019s lots of activities and they rotate around,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Children are split into different age groups and further split into groups of 10, each of which is led by a senior player.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe also have nights at the club for the families to introduce the people of Torquay to the cricket club,\u201d Lewis said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m passionate about the Torquay football, cricket and netball club, so getting the community down here to see what it\u2019s all about and getting kids involved in sport is really important to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 2026\u201327 Cricket Blast season starts in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORQUAY Cricket Club\u2019s Zoe Lewis says the plaudit of being the nation\u2019s best Cricket Blast coordinator should go…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-690032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690032","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=690032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}