📢BDNA Annual Dance 📢
The committee looks forward to seeing you at the annual dance on Friday 6th September 2019
7pm-11pm at Basildon sport and leisure club (formally known as Selex centre), there will be a
BBQ buffet, DJ, Photo booth and special guest Su Harrison formally from heart radio. Anyone
who requires any further information please contact Jo Lintott.
📢Cup/Rally Competition: 📢
This competition will follow the same format as previous years, where each cup is played in a rally
competition week commencing 16th September 2019 on the dates below:
Monday 16th Conan Cup – Div 2 -4
Tuesday 17th Marshall Cup - Div 5-7
Wednesday 18th Scannell Cup - Div 8-10
Thursday 19th - Ravensdale Cup - Premier- Division 1
Teams must provide umpires qualified to officiate their league standing, (Ravensdale to try for a B
award, but a C will be acceptable). Those teams competing in the, Ravensdale and Conan Cup
competition’s must also provide a scorer.
ALL Teams are automatically entered. If your team does not wish to enter the competition please
advise The Cup Secretary by sending off the withdrawal slip by Sunday 8th September to:
Mercedes Lancaster 2 Templewood Court, Hadleigh SS7 2 RQ or email merclancaster@gmail.com
📢Calling all C Award Umpires📢
Would you like to progress your umpiring career, and umpire division 1 and Prem games more
regularly?, The BDNA league is looking to run a course on the evening of 📆 Monday 19th
August, which will equip umpires with the necessary skills to umpire at a higher level. The course
would be followed by a short practical on 📆Tuesday 27th August.
Those successful in the practical will then be able to be booked by home teams for Prem and
division 1 league games, and added to a list compiled of "approved umpires" for these games,
which will then be circulated to teams in those divisions.
The course will cover:
✅ - Game Management
✅ - Positioning
✅ - When to play advantage
✅ - Match fitness
✅ - Contact v contest
The sessions are free. Please register your interest to ☎️ in the first instance.
If you are interested,
but unable to make these dates, contact Bev to be put on a list for a subsequent running of this
course.
📢Ladies 40+ interested in a Veterans League??📢
The committee is interested in accommodating a separate Vets League which would be played at
a central venue, most probably at BSV and dependent on take up, games would be played Every
Friday or Every Other Friday.
To gauge interest we would be grateful if you could take our survey, currently this would be for
ladies aged 40+ years old (at this time):
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/L3RGPVJ
Courses
Umpiring Further details in the first instance from Bev Piggott .
Into Officiating (Beginner Award) Courses in East Essex and Thurrock
C Award Courses in East Essex and Thurrock
B Award in East Region
Coaching
Level 2 Course
1/2nd and 29/30th October and 26th Nov
Bedford
Details of coaching courses are available of the England and Netball East Web sites from our links page