See here for all junior fixtures to be published early 2012
Dear parents,
We have decided to attempt a big step up in the quantity and quality of cricket on offer for juniors at Stirling County. This year we will be joining the West of Scotland Junior League. This means cricket every week from the first week in May. The intention is to split the league so that we only play teams this side of the M8 (ie not Ayr, Helensburgh etc).
- Kwik cricket will be Sunday mornings, as before. It is very informal and meant as an introduction to cricket. Training will be Monday night as before, 6.30-8pm.
- U11s will play hardball cricket matches on a Friday night (6pm starts) and will train Monday night, 6.30-8pm.
- U13 will play Monday night matches (6pm start). They will train on a Friday night.
- The U15s will play Friday night matches and will train at the adult club nights (Tuesday and Thursday).
We will have a fixture list well before the start of the season. With lots of cricket on offer we hope to have lots of players wanting to take part. The West league has been very successful and we're looking forward to some busy nights at New Williamfield.
To make this a success, we will need lots of support from parents. This can range from coaching, driving players to games, catering, scoring, helping with team management etc. The season has the potential to be very exciting - but we are aware it is a significant commitment.
- Jon Taylor will be in overall charge of junior cricket (Jon is in charge of all club coaching. We are also expecting some support from club professionals.
- We have agreed that Sean Ferrie and Matthew Tweedie will take the U15 team
- Alistair Davidson and Stuart Keys will take the U13 team.
- We don't yet have people identified at U11s.Hopefully this will be filled by the overseas players.
- Morven Ross and Shelley along with Obaid will be working with the Kwik cricketers.
Please can you let the club know what help you think you might be able to offer?
Thanks,
the coaching team
Link to West League website....
.This promises to be a full and demanding season and all the coaches are firm in their determination to bring this plan to fruition
Further details can be obtained from Junior Coaching Cordinator Jon Taylor 07881 473941 or email the club contactus@stirlingcountycc.co.uk
The SCCC Junior Section is a thriving mix of Kwik Cricket through to hardball coaching, training and matches. The groups cover youngsters from early years to our U15's, some of whom will have the opportunity to play senior level cricket either in friendly or league fixtures.
We are fortunate to have the backing of SportsMatch which has helped the junior section for the last few years enjoy a number of benefits helping to keep the costs of providing equipment and services down to a bare minimum. SportsMatch matches sponsorship money from businesses and this year funding has been made possible through our main sponsors, FES, for the season.
Monday evenings at the club is a sea of activity, often with over 70 enthusiastic participants plus parents, coaches and supporting helpers. We're always looking for more help so if you are a parent who would like to help out in any way whether it's helping with training, organising refreshments, helping with ferrying children to and from training and matches or anything else, please have a chat with one of the organisers/coaches or email us from here and we'll get back to you.
If you're one of our young players, have a word with your parents and get them involved - they'll be very happy to help we're sure!
Cricket, despite it's summer time tradition, is actually on the go throughout the whole year. Once the main season is over in September, we start indoor winter nets and games and this runs right the way through to the following season starting in April. That's another reason that we could do with some more parental help and support as, with most clubs, there is a small band of very enthusiastic people that organise and manage all of these activities.
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