Baseball coaches in New Zealand will soon have greater access to coaching manuals and instructional video's through a new partnership between Baseball New Zealand and its American equivalent USA Baseball. In a move designed to increase the knowledge of baseball coaches in New Zealand, instructional information and coaching techniques will be freely available to anyone involved in the game through the Baseball New Zealand website.
"Providing our online courses to our international counterparts is part of the continuation of USA Baseball's efforts to make educational resources universally available within the game," said Paul Seiler, Executive Director/CEO of USA Baseball. "We are encouraged by Baseball New Zealand's enthusiasm to offer these educational resources to its constituents, and we are proud to promote these resources in the international baseball community."
"We have investigated many different ways to get coaching information out to our stakeholders and this partnership goes a long way to achieving this goal," said Baseball New Zealand CEO Ryan Flynn, adding, "Our National Development Officers have done a great job in managing our coaching programmes and this development is an added bonus to increasing the knowledge of our coaches.
"USA Baseball has put together a superb menu of coaching instruction and video and having this at our fingertips can only help our coaches nationwide to grow," said Flynn, "We are close to a tipping point in New Zealand where the game of baseball is about to explode and it is important we assist anybody wanting to coach to have the necessary information to facilitate this."
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Ian McDonald
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Baseball New Zealand
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