{"id":3046,"date":"2017-02-23T17:19:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T17:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/?p=3046"},"modified":"2017-02-24T10:19:17","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T10:19:17","slug":"kent-sport-coaching-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/kent-sport-coaching-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Sport coaching success!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sadie Appleby, Kent Sport Membership\u00a0Services\u00a0Manager, updates us about developments with the staff netball coaching sessions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Louisa Arnold, Kent\u00a0Coaching Network Officer, has devoted her Monday lunch breaks for the past 3 \u00bd years to coaching staff netball sessions at Kent Sport. I joined Louisa as a fellow netball enthusiast and have been helping with the sessions for the past year as part of the University Volunteering Scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Staff that attend the sessions have various sporting backgrounds. Some had never played netball before, some played a little at school and others got the bug after attending the Vice-Chancellor\u2019s Cup.\u00a0 The ladies that attend have great attitude, are keen to learn and improve, and get fit in a fun environment. The sessions are open to all and run throughout term time \u2013 if you would like to join us please come along, it\u2019s only \u00a31 a session or free to Gold and\u00a0Silver members.<\/p>\n<p>As with any \u2018back to\u2019 sports offering, a coach\u2019s dream is to enable those attending to develop and progress and that is exactly what these sessions had done for many of the attendees. All were offered the opportunity to enter as a team in a local netball league \u2013 the response was amazing. Thirteen members of staff wanted to commit, and thanks to the kind sponsorship from Kent Sport, setting up the team was possible. The group of staff are now known as Kent Unicorns and have been practising as much as they can in their lunchbreaks to be match ready for mid-March.<\/p>\n<p>On the 13 February nine of the Unicorns (Andrea Peett, Alison Webster, Liz Foden, Liz Lukehurst, Emma Marku, Sam Betts, Amy Parkes, Jo Gold and Charlotte Siliafis) played their first ever full match in a pre-season friendly. They have two\u00a0other friendlies scheduled before the start of the season to gain as much match experience as possible.<\/p>\n<p>To follow Kent Unicorns progress please\u00a0follow UniKentSports on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UniKentSports\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0or like us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/unikentsports\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sports\">www.kent.ac.uk\/sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/files\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-23-at-17.11.23.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3048\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/files\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-23-at-17.11.23.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"345\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/files\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-23-at-17.11.23.png 345w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/files\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-23-at-17.11.23-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 345px) 100vw, 345px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadie Appleby, Kent Sport Membership\u00a0Services\u00a0Manager, updates us about developments with the staff netball coaching sessions. Louisa Arnold, Kent\u00a0Coaching Network Officer, has devoted her Monday lunch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/kent-sport-coaching-success\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5725,"featured_media":3047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5725"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3046"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3053,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions\/3053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}