Collier clinches top coaching prize
Second award for top korfball coachby Cambridge City Korfball Club
The listing was posted by English Korfball Association
Cambridge City Korfball Club (CCKC) head coach Janine Collier has been crowned Coach of the Year at the BBC Radio Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Sports Awards.
This follows on from her success at the recent Cambridge Sport Network Awards, where she also clinched the top coaching prize. This latest award means that Janine is now automatically nominated for the BBC East Region Sports Awards to be televised in December.
As head coach of CCKC, Janine has spearheaded the club’s rise to Cambridgeshire Division One league champions, taking the title from rival club Cambridge Tigers who had held the title for the previous six years.
In fact, all teams across the club have performed above expectations, finishing higher than any other club’s second, third, fourth or fifth teams.
Janine has been responsible for first and second team squad training as well as the development of six other coaches that take the main club sessions.
As coach she has bought imagination and foresight to the role by implementing a mentoring scheme to involve members right throughout the club’s five teams, has employed a fitness instructor, sports psychologist and cross-sport coach to help give all teams the edge.
She has also been responsible for a number of initiatives that have helped set CCKC up as a sustainably thriving club, and her work was key in the club also being recognised at the 2008 Cambridge Sport Network Awards as Club of the Year.
One of these initiatives is the City Tykes, a pilot for children aged 3-6 that helps develop children’s confidence and enthusiasm for playing games. The pilot was so successful, Tykes is now a thriving and growing part of City that is available to all members of the community.
Janine was the driving force behind the club’s gaining of Clubmark, a cross-sport quality accreditation. CCKC was the first korfball club in the UK to achieve the standard, and the first club to be awarded Clubmark by Cambridge and Peterborough sports partnership Living Sport.
She also led the club’s application for an Awards for All grant. The £10,000 grant, which was successfully awarded, allowed the club to invest in the future with new equipment, training and coaching courses, and investment in its Junior and Tykes clubs.
Janine is the Child Protection Officer for the Cambridgeshire Korfball Association committee, the governing body of the sport in the area, and sits on the International Korfball Federation’s Appeals Committee.
On the pitch, Janine is a strong, competitive athlete that leads from the front, challenging and inspiring her team mates.