Demand

Currently the venue is at capacity

every afternoon for club training, school groups, GSV, SSV
Friday afterooon for Junior Development Program - years 2 - 4
Saturdays for domestic competition
Sundays for coach / umpire clinics + general public use +++

As the 3rd largest Netball Association in Victoria, our venue should be suitable for Netball Victoria events such as tournaments, Association Championships.

Saturday Competition

Membership

Membership is static. We are unable to advertise / promote due to lack of court space, cannot accommodate new members ie) siblings
Male inclusion is currently a NV priority but we cannot accomodate.

Increased number of BYES

All teams have byes - the number depends on the maximum number of courts available in a day = 8 x 13 rounds = 104 = 208 teams maximum per Saturday .
The more teams we have, the more byes we must create throughout the season to accommodate all teams with available court space
To avoid some byes, we place 2 teams from the one school into the same section. We can then fixture their games to be played at their schools during the week .
This is not ideal, as there is no umpire support, quality control, Saturday netball camaraderie / interaction; and is a significant burden on the school clubs.

Reduce length of games

Quarters are now down to 9 minutes from 10 mins < 12 mins < 15 mins giving us an extra round (8 matches/week).
Players therefore play additional games in other municipalities to increase their court time
A full senior game should be 4 x 15min quarters

Time between rounds

There is no time in between matches allowing umpires to recover and venue to be cleared ie) transition time / traffic flow.

Warm Up

There is no warm up court available all day - each round, 160 players warm up on the small overflow area next to the pavilion

Move Junior Sections

Most competitions run their junior development programs on Sat mornings but we have had to move our grade 1 - 4 to Fridays to save court space.
This means we lose junior players to other associations as kids have so many other school activities during the week

Zoning

In future, another option will be to ZONE teams / players, thereby excluding those living outside the zone from our competition.
This is not considered to be in the spirit of community sporting organisations

BNA Club Training:

Currently only 4 clubs - Ruyton, Kew District, Mont Albert, Canterbury - are able to use our courts to train due to lack of available court space

Camberwell South have 14 teams training on 2 courts at C'Well Sth primary school (130+ players)
Fintona have 11 teams training on 1 court at Fintona (100+ Players)
Genazzano have 44 teams training on only 4 courts at Genazzano (400+ players)
Koonung Heights have 18 teams training on 2 courts at Balwyn High School (170+ players)
MLC Stars have 25 teams training on 2 courts at MLC (230+ players)

Mid-Week Demand

There is very limited demand for midweek competitions played on OUTDOORS courts.

A strong sustainable competition requires the inbuilt workforce (predominantly volunteers) available to support the competition.
As our primary focus and holistic pathway opportunities are available with the main Saturday competition, additional midweek programs / competitions need to be complementary and not in competition with the Saturday programs.
Mid-week we are "competing" with compulsory school netball competitions, including GSV. With the additional courts, competitions such as GSV could be held locally at Macleay Park. Current schools who participate in our competition are extremely supportive of this opportunity.
There is scope for other types of mid-week programs/ competitions as per our strategic plan ie) Boys/men, Rock Up Netball, All Abilities, Walking Netball

Therefore the priority is for more courts at the same venue, lights or no lights.

Local School Demand

Schools competitions will finish no later than 5.30pm, usually 5pm, so they can be bussed back to school for pick up.
Some schools have curfews for on-campus students (boarders) restricting availability for school competitions / training after hours.
There are 35,000 school students attending schools in the Kooyong district alone (55 schools).

GSV = Girls Sport Victoria

BNA has 7 school clubs - MLC, CGGS, Ruyton, Strathcona, Fintona, Genazzano and MGGS - involved in GSV

Seniors (Yr 11 & 12) = Play Monday competition
Intermediates (Yr 9 & 10) = Play Wednesday competition
Juniors (Yr 7 & 8) = PlayThursday competition

Venues for GSV are grossly inadequate with schools having to travel to Dingley, Waverley, Springvale for weekly competition. Also, the number of teams schools are able to enter the competition are dependant on the number of courts they have available to them. GSV games are now reduced to 8 minute quarters due to lack of facilities

APS = Associated Public Schools of Victoria

Carey hire our courts twice weekly for training > they ideally requested 12 courts but use 8 courts 2 afternoons per week
APS matches are played on Saturday mornings at the various schools so are not relevant to the BNC

SSV = School Sport Victoria