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2020 National Sport Club Survey (NSCS)

Sunday, 30 August 2020, 2:34 pm | New Zealand Amateur Sport Association

The New Zealand Amateur Sport Association and AUT’s Sport Performance Research Institute New Zealand are working in partnership to deliver the 2020 NSCS, which launches on Monday, 31 August. This is the third year of this important national ... More >>

Amateur Sport Association Calls For Clear Guidelines On When It Will Be “O.K. To Play”

Wednesday, 15 April 2020, 11:51 am | New Zealand Amateur Sport Association

When will we be able to say, “it’s O.K. to play?” Defining what a “safe” environment is for community sport will be top-of-mind for parents, spouses and partners of sportspeople, and for sportspeople themselves, once the community sport ban is ... More >>

Student Sport For Sale

Friday, 6 March 2020, 8:29 am | New Zealand Amateur Sport Association

Recent media reports indicating that the rights to broadcast certain student sport competitions have been sold by New Zealand secondary school sport’s governing body, underscores the increasing alarm over decreasing teenage participation in sport and ... More >>

Future of Amateur Sport “In The Balance”

Thursday, 14 November 2019, 11:47 am | New Zealand Amateur Sport Association

Results of the 2019 National Sport Club Survey (NSCS), recently undertaken by the New Zealand Amateur Sport Association (NZASA) and Auckland University of Technology’s Sport Performance Research Institute of New Zealand (SPRINZ), reveal that many people ... More >>

New Code promoted for sporting youth

Wednesday, 5 June 2019, 4:45 pm | New Zealand Amateur Sport Association

The New Zealand Amateur Sport Association Inc. encourages National Sporting Organisations (NSO) to adopt a new Code which places youth at the centre of decision-making involving their sporting participation. More >>

NZASA calls for govt review of UN Child Rights Convention

Monday, 23 April 2018, 12:26 pm | New Zealand Amateur Sport Association

Media reports that New Zealand children of 14 or 15 years of age are now being targeted for contracts by sporting franchises, should prompt New Zealand authorities to review laws preventing the exploitation of children. More >>

Mind Over Matter

Tuesday, 13 March 2018, 11:01 am | New Zealand Amateur Sport Association

Last week, the Legislative Assembly of Ontario enacted a new law concerning concussion safety for organisations engaged in amateur competitive sport. More >>

Clubs Create Connections in Communities

Wednesday, 22 November 2017, 8:28 am | New Zealand Amateur Sport Association

The New Zealand Amateur Sport Association Inc. fully endorses the outcome of a recent survey of current and past players undertaken by the Otago Rugby Football Union, which revealed that local amateur clubs are where players feel most connected to ... More >>

Harriers: A Healthy Option for Vibrant NZ Communities

Friday, 6 October 2017, 9:19 am | New Zealand Amateur Sport Association

The New Zealand Amateur Sport Association Inc. encourages all local communities to support their local Harriers Clubs. An article in the press this weekend suggested that some Clubs “… are running towards oblivion as they fail to attract new members ... More >>

Amateur values in NZ school sports

Wednesday, 17 May 2017, 10:05 am | New Zealand Amateur Sport Association

It was reported today that in relation to the sport of Rugby Union one secondary school believes “over-professionalisation of sport is not helping, it’s not helping the game, it’s not helping the boys, it’s undermining the values we’re supposed ... More >>

New organisation promotes and supports NZ amateur sport

Friday, 28 April 2017, 3:22 pm | New Zealand Amateur Sport Association

A new organisation has been established by well-known sporting names and community leaders to promote and support amateur sport in New Zealand. More >>

 

 
 
 
 
 

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