Cricket
Program Overview
We strive to develop talented young cricket players through best practice quality coaching and dynamic training programs. We provide a safe and productive learning environment in order to develop young people who can balance sporting and academic performance.
Aims
Our aim is to provide a disciplined and challenging training environment that will empower all players to maximise their potential in cricket across all five components of the game (technical, tactical, physical, mental, nutritional) and life itself.
We aim to implement structures into all our sessions which not only teach the game but lessons that can be transferred into life. The Maribyrnong Sports Academy Cricket Program aims to complement existing players programs without substituting them.
Whilst we believe that the Program will play an integral role in an athlete’s program, it must not in any shape or form be the only part of a training schedule.
The Program also aims to educate our athletes about everything they need to know about future life as a cricketer as well as possible future pathways.
Boys Cricket Program
Maribyrnong Sports Academy offers a specialised program for Boys who are looking to develop or excel through the Cricketing Pathway.
The program delivers Group and individual sessions to players tailored to improving the overall development of female athletes both on and off the field.
Coaches
Leigh Holmes
Qualifications – CA Level 3 (High Performance) Coach
Coaching Positions Held – MSA Head Cricket Coach and former Victorian U/15 coach.
Travis Dean
Playing History – Current 1st Class Victorian Bushranger and 9 years professionally contracted player. Former Melbourne Stars & Renegades BBL Player.
Duncan Harrison
Qualifications - CA Level 3 (High Performance) Coach
Coaching Positions Held - 11 years Cricket Victoria High Performance Academy Head Coach, Melbourne Renegades WBBL Assistant Coach and 4 years Victoria Women’s Assistant Coach
Girls Cricket Program
Maribyrnong Sports Academy offers a specialised program for Girls who are looking to develop or excel through the Cricketing Pathway.
The program delivers Group and individual sessions to players tailored to improving the overall development of female athletes both on and off the field.
Coaches
Scott Shepherd
Qualifications - ECB Level 2 coaching award. CA Level 2 Representative) Coach
Coaching Positions Held - MSA Girls Head Coach, Ass coach MSA Boys Program, Head Coach Box Hill Women’s Head Coach, Head Coach Wycrif CC Women’s Program.
George Shaw
Qualifications - CA Level 2 (Representative) Coach
Coaching Position Held - Essendon Maribyrnong Park Women’s Premier team, Yarraville Cricket Club, 11 years as a pathways cricket coach.