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Transition Year Girls SpikeBall Leaders

Award Programme

This successful and very exciting programme by the Volleyball Association of Ireland and supported by the Irish Sport Council “Women in Sport” initiative is well into its second year.
The first year was an overwhelming success with 340 Transition Year students countrywide receiving The SpikeBall Leaders Awards Certificate for 2007 and over 3,000 Primary school students participating in the programme from a total of 20 courses delivered.
This year we were overwhelmed by schools requesting the programme, for 25 courses we had 78 schools in total apply for this years programme.

This programme is aimed at girls in Transition Year programmes in Post Primary school across Ireland.
The aim of this initiative is to establish and deliver a Transition Year Girls SpikeBall Leadership Award Programme. Transition Year girls will become leaders in introducing an adapted Volleyball game (SpikeBall) to junior pupils in their own school, local primary schools and in the local community. This initiative will help to develop partnerships between post primary school involved and local primary school and/or clubs.

Course Delivery - 6 hour Leadership Course, including How to Coach SpikeBall, Refereeing, Administration, Health & Safety and PRO.

Student Coaching - 6 weeks (1 hour per week) in local primary schools.

Blitz - TY Students organise a Blitz for all the Primary children taking part in programme.

Monitoring - The programme is monitored by programme staff.

Certification - Students receive Transition Year Girls SpikeBall Leaders Award Certificate on full completion of course.

The 2007/08 Transition Year Girls SpikeBall Leadership Award Course has been delivered to the following schools the TY Leaders are currently out coaching in their local Primary Schools:

Course Delivery Date	School	No. of Leaders	Primary Schools	Blitz Date
1st Oct	St Pauls Secondary School, Greenhills, Co. Dublin	19	St Paul's Primary School, Bishop Galvin Primary School	22nd Jan
8th Oct	Colaiste Bride, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford	20	St Aidan's National School, Bree National School	30th Jan
10th Oct	Elphin Community College, Co. Roscommon	9	Abbeycarton National School, Bellanagare National School	tbc
23rd Oct	Presentation Secondary School, Tralee, Co. Kerry	19	Presentation Primary School, Moyderwell Primary School	14th Dec
25th Oct	Presentation College, Tuam, Co. Galway	15	Presentation Primary School, St Pat's Primary School, Mercy Convent Primary School, Gaelscoil Iarfhlatha	2nd Feb
14th Nov	Presentation Secondary School, Thurles, Co. Tipperary	16	Presentation Primary School	22nd Feb
21st Nov	St Mary's Secondary School, Edenderry, Co. Offaly	8	Edenderry Boys National School, Edenderry Girls National School	26th Feb
26th Nov	St Marys Secondary School, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary	16	St Mary's Convent Primary School, C.B.S Boys Primary School	29th Feb
27th Nov	St Brigids College, Callan. Co. Kilkenny	20	Poulcapple National School, Dunnamaggin National School, Cuffesgrange National School, Bennets Bridge National School	1st May
10th Dec	Loreto Secondary School, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin	18	St Theresa's National School, St Mologa's National School	9th/15th May
14th Dec	St Mary's College, Naas, Co. Kildare	14	Rathmore National School, Ballycane National School, Caragh National School	14th Mar & 4th April
18th Dec	Holy Family Community School, Rathcoole, Co. Dublin	15	Holy Family National School	21st May
7th Jan	Presentation Secondary School, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary	20	Presentation Primary School, Gaelscoil Primary School, Sisters Of Charity Primary School, St Marys CBS	13th & 14th Mar
9th Jan	St Marys Secondary School, New Ross, Co. Wexford	17	Horsewood Primary School, St Joseph's Primary School	5th March
11th Jan	Gael-Cholaiste Chill Dara, The Curragh, Co. Kildare	8	Gaelscoil Chill Dara, Gaelscoil Nas Na Riogh	18th April
11th Jan	St Pauls Secondary School, Monasterevin, Co. Kildare	5	St Evin's National School, St. John's National School	18th April
17th Jan	Mercy College, Woodford, Co. Galway	11	Woodford National School, Ballinakill National School, Moyglass National School, Derryober National School	14th May
24th Jan	St Josephs Secondary School, Castlebar, Co. Mayo	20	St Angela's National School, Breaffy National School, Scoil Raifteiri	15th May
7th Feb	Sacred Heart Secondary School, Westport, Co. Mayo	20	S N Cloc Padraig Naofa, Holy Trinity National School,	30th April
19th Feb	Portmarnock Community School, Co. Dublin	15	St Andrews National School, St Helen's Snr National School	28th April
21st Feb	Christ the King Secondary School, Douglas, Co. Cork	20	Eglantine NS, Christ the King Primary School	13th May
22nd Feb	Glanmire Community College, Glanmire, Co. Cork	9	St Josephs NS, New Inn National School	14th May
25th Feb	Mount St Michael Secondary School, Claremorris, Co. Mayo	18	Claremorris Boys School, Scoil Mhuire gar smal Claremorris	20th May
26th Feb	St Marks Community School, Tallaght, Co. Dublin	14	St Marks Senior Natioal School, Maolruain Senior National School	29th April
7th Mar	St Dominics High School, Sutton, Co. Dublin	17	Scoil Aine, St Eithne's	22nd May
14th Mar	Colaiste Chiarian, Leixlip, Co Kildare	9	Scoil Mhuire, Scoil Ui Dhalaigh	tbc

The following TY Girls SpikeBall Leadership Award Courses and Blitz tournaments have been completed:

School	Blitz Date
St Pauls Secondary School, Greenhills, Co. Dublin	22nd Jan
Colaiste Bride, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford	30th Jan
Presentation Secondary School, Tralee, Co. Kerry	14th Dec
Presentation College, Tuam, Co. Galway	2nd Feb
Presentation Secondary School, Thurles, Co. Tipperary	22nd Feb
St Mary's Secondary School, Edenderry, Co. Offaly	26th Feb
St Mary's, New Ross	05th March
St Mary's, Edenderry	10th March
Presentation Secondary School, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary	13th/14th Mar
St Mary's College, Naas, Co Kildare	14th Mar & 4th April
Gael-Cholaiste Chill Dara, The Curragh, Co. Kildare	18th April
St Pauls Secondary School, Monasterevin, Co. Kildare	18th April
Portmarnock Community School, Co. Dublin	28th April
St Marks Community School, Tallaght, Co. Dublin	29th April
St Marys Secondary School, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary	29th April
Sacred Heart Secondary School, Westport, Co. Mayo	30th April
St Brigids College, Callan. Co. Kilkenny	1st May
Loretto, Balbriggan	9th/15th May
Christ The King, Cork	13th May
Glanmire Community College, Cork	14th May
Mercy College, Woodford	14th May
St Josephs Castlebar	15th May
Mount St Michael Secondary School, Claremorris, Mayo	20th May
Holy Family CS, Rathcoole	21st May
St Dominics High School (Santa Sabina)	22nd May