Abby Treader
We have granted Abby $3,000 over the last two years to help her with gear and coaching. She has a very promising future, and has shown great dedication to her career so far. Abby’s mother contacted us when she was 16 and attending Tararua College in Pahiatua, (40 minutes drive to Palmerston North). At the time she was playing for the Manawatu Senior Women’s team and the CD Under 19s, with the family making five return trips to Palmerston North each week.
In January Abby was named in the NZ Under 19 wider squad and her future indeed looks bright. Aria Cameron
Aria is a very promising 15 year old, currently at Fielding High School. She is captain of the girls’ first XI and a pace bowler for the boys’ first XI! Last season she played Premier grade for the Marist CC, year 11-13 Manawatu Girls, CD under 17 and the Manawatu Women’s team.
She has international aspirations, a love of the game and enthusiasm to burn. We have given her a $2,000 grant which she intends to use for winter gym training, coaching and provincial tournament fees Cobham CC
Cobham CC is a fellow Kindred cricket club whose main focus is to nurture and foster Secondary Schools cricket in Northland. They currently have a coach involved with Whangarei BHS and propose to run several wider coaching clinics. We have offered $2,000 but haven’t confirmed details at this point.
Evolution Sports ChristchurchWe continue to support Dan Vann’s coaching in schools through grants of $2,000 for each of terns one and four. Dan runs programs on our behalf at Riccarton College and Shirley Boys High School, both worthy recipients of the funding.
St Ignatius of Loyola Catholic College
St Ignasius is a new school near Drury, starting this year with 339 students. They have an experienced coach in Luke Williams, and were seeking $20,000 for developing pitch and net facilities. The committee agreed to fund $5,000 towards the project.
The Willows CC's Tamai Sports Programme
The recently finished cricket season has seen The Willows & Tamai Sports in partnership deliver its Cricket programme, specifically designed for Tamariki who otherwise would not have the opportunity to participate.
We were fortunate to partner with Dan Vann – Evolution Sport Coaching a QSCC partner to help deliver the coaching aspect of our programme. This season The Queen Street Cricket Club contributed significant funding to enable us to grow our programme to include 50 Tamariki, providing them with;
The support provided by QSCC was instrumental in our ability to deliver our programme, and grow it this season, and it has given us a platform to grow next season. Most importantly the support from QSCC has provided an opportunity for these Tamariki to be involved in Cricket, to learn new skills & make new friendships. The importance of Tamai cannot be understated, it has helped narrow the gap, to enable opportunity & participation. The Willows Cricket Club is greatly appreciative of the support provided by QSCC – it literally made the difference to the 50 Tamariki that participated in the Cricket programme in 2023-24. Kit Perera - Life through Cricket
We are excited to be supporting Kit Perera, who is running after school coaching twice a week for Year 9 and 10 boys from Avondale College. He is looking to expand participation and grow the number of teams at the school. To help, we gave Kit $10,000 as part of our QSCC funding programme. Kit's philosophy extends to "whole of life" and becoming better people through cricket. When we visited we were really impressed with the turnout, enthusiasm, and skills of the boys. Kit also engages the boys by organising visits from cricket players such as Jeet Raval who is Avondale College alumni. Auckland Maori CricketTe Toa Whakaihuwaka 2022/23 - National Champions - Tāmaki Makaurau
Over the Easter Weekend Tāmaki Makaurau Maori Cricket Team competed in the inaugural National Maori Tournament. The Tournament represented all Major Associations of New Zealand with some highly skilled individuals representing the region, iwi, and whanau. Queen Street Cricket Club helped sponsor uniforms for the tournament, allowing players to look and feel professional. Throughout the tournament, Tāmaki Makarau remained undefeated and lifted the trophy at the end. Topped off by Jock McKenzie being named player of the tournament alongside Ben Brady and Fraser Campbell who also made the tournament side. Dan Vann - Evolution SportsThe QSCC granted Dan $2,000 for his coaching programs at Shirley Boys High and Riccarton College. We feel these are important schools to support as the cricketing landscape continues to narrow.
Waitakere CCWe again contributed to the Waitakere CC’s coaching program with a $10,000 grant. They employed two full-time Level One coaches going directly into low-decile West Auckland schools, mainly Primary and intermediate.
They also held two cluster days to try and get as many school kids and parents as they could for a fun day of cricket and to introduce the club. |
Auckland Maori CricketLast year we engaged with Michael Tillett, who has been the driving force behind establishing Tamaki Makaurau Maori Cricket. We supplied the men’s team uniforms for the inaugural inter-provincial championship, which they won. This year we donated a further $4,000 for women’s uniforms.
Michael has done a wonderful job, and has a passion for the project which the QSCC loves. He now has 61 Tane and 29 Wahine registered players. This year’s Nationals are to be hosted in Tamaki Makaurau on October 18-20, and we look forward to watching the growth in Maori Cricket continue Brittain Wynyard
We’re extremely grateful to our new friends at Brittain Wynyard who donated a mountain of G & M gear, including six gear bags, 22 bats and a large number of pads and gloves, All gear was new, and either last year’s or surplus to requirements.
This was incredibly generous and we have so far dispatched full gear bags to Aorere and Alfriston Colleges, along with a dozen XL cream trousers to St Pauls College. Garry Wood Pasifika Clinics
Report on Pasifika project 2024:
The Pasifika schools cricket committee would like to acknowledge and thank the Queen Street Cricket Club for their recent financial assistance in both supporting the coaching program and in paying for the match playing shirts for the recent 2024 Rangitane secondary school tournament. The tournament was managed and run by NZ Cricket with a view to creating much better links and opportunities in cricket for players of either Maori or Pacific Island descent of secondary school age. This year's games consisted of three T20 games and was hosted in Auckland by the Cornwall Club at their Greenlane base. NZ Maori had a very strong squad that brought recent form and undoubted class to the games. This year the Pasifika boys and in particular the girls side provide much tougher opposition than year one. Much of this was attributable to the far more extensive squad preparation that was committed to from early the previous September. This coaching was funded by the Queen Street Cricket Club organisation for which the players, parents and coaches were extremely grateful to receive. One sign of the increasing depth and the increasing buy-in was that nine players from the girls squad were selected for either Samoa or the Cook Islands senior Women’s team to play in the Pacific Cup held in Auckland in January 2024. Four of the boys were included in the Cook Islands senior men’s train-on squad for the East Asia Pacific Regional qualifiers in August 2024. Another notable was the addition of three new coaches of Pacific Island heritage to the program. With the guidance of NZC and the support of organizations such as QSCC, this is a very real opportunity for perceptions and barriers to be removed for these communities. Garry Wood Sam Mackinder
Sam is an outstanding prospect for Maori Women’s cricket. In her third year of a BSC at Massey, she has shone though age grade rep cricket . Last year she made the CD women’s team before being named in the inaugural Aotearoa Maori women’s team that competed for the Pacific Cup in January.
Hastings BHS
The club agreed to pay $2760 for indoor centre hire and $1600 for match day balls.
De La Salle College
Esteemed member, Ockert Visser kindly donated a complete bag of new gear, which we delivered to De La Salle College who continue to promote cricket as part of their PE programme.
Solomon VermeerWe contributed $2250 or half of the trip expenses for Sol to join the North Harbour Under 17 team’s tour of Sri Lanka. Pictured below in the first match, a win against the Pandura Cricket Academy. Sol opened the bowling and took two for 12 off his four overs.
Hooked on Cricket
Click this image to see a video of the day.
Hooked on Cricket remains our largest continual project with a commitment of $20,000 per annum.
It is widely popular and well supported by the contracted provincial players and the schools involved. Dennis Katsonis from the Cricket Players Assn has put together a fantastic video that captures the spirit and fun of the tournament day. Click on the image above to see the video Abby Treader
We have again granted the highly promising Abby $1,500 for gear, coaching and travel expenses.
Last season, at the age of 16, Abby was selected for the Manawatu Women’s team, the CD Under 19 team, the CD A women’s team, and the Manawatu High Performance academy. She is hoping to make the CD Hinds this year. |
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