Yorkshire Outstanding Services to Cricket Awards
The Yorkshire Cricket Board are delighted to inform Leagues and Clubs that they will again be holding an Awards Ceremony to recognise and reward volunteers in Yorkshire on 25th August 2011.
The Awards Occasion will be at Headingley on Thursday 25th August after the end of the days play in the County Championship game against Warwickshire. The winners and runners-up in each category with partner/friend will be invited. The Yorkshire winners in the ECB OSCA categories will be the Yorkshire nominations of the national awards which will go through County Boards this year.
The 22 categories will be
OSCAs 2011 ( based on ECB categories).
• Young Volunteer ( Under 25 on 5th August 2011)
• Behind the Scenes ( The clubman of the year - someone invisible who your club could not do without)
• Building Partnerships ( A volunteer , club or cricket organisation who has created a sustainable partnership with schools, voluntary organisations, other sports and/or the local community)
• Nat West Cricket Force ( A volunteer or group of volunteers who made an outstanding contribution to this year's NatWest CricketForce event in Yorkshire)
• Leagues and Boards (An individual with dedication who has achieved sustainable results for a League, Cricket Board, Area Cricket Council or Cricket Development Group)
• Lifetime Achiever (An individual who has made an outstanding difference to cricket over a sustained period)
• Officiating - Umpires and Scorers ( An individual who has raised the profile of good officiating within Yorkshire and recuiting/training /mentoring new Officials )
For all the above consider innovation and creativity, energy and commitment to development, the creation of good practice worth replication, inspiration and motivation, leadership in creating and developing projects
Coach Education ( Winners to be nominated for Sky Sports 2010-11 Awards)
• Outstanding Contribution and Services to Cricket Coaching ( A coach who has contributed to cricket coaching and created a legacy through development of coaching , and innovation that has increased coaching activity and player participation)
• Outstanding Coaching Achievement ( A coach who has made a significant difference in shaping the lives of cricketers in both club and representative cricket )
• Young Coach of the Year ( under the current age of 25) ( A young coach who has showed a commitment to developing the game at grass roots and community level and has had a clear impact with school, club or community )
YCB Services to Sport Awards
These are all in recognition of long-term service
• Clifford Smith Award -Youth Representative Cricket ( an individual who given a life-long commitment to youth representative cricket in coaching or administrative capacity and "made a difference")
• Coaching Young People ( a coach who has inspired young people and made a difference over many years)
• Disability Cricket ( an individual who may be able-bodied or from a disability group who has " made a difference" in the availability of cricket for those with a disability)
• Umpiring ( A umpire who has given long-term service to umpiring and " made a difference" by their loyalty and personal standards and/or by tutoring fellow umpires )
• Scoring ( A scorer who has given long-term service to scoring and " made a difference" to scoring by their dedication, loyalty and personal standards )
• Groundsmanship ( a grounds man who has given long-term service to the cause of and development of groundsmanship in the county and or at their club and has thus "made a difference")
• Barbara Hare Award - Womens Cricket ( an individual who has given long and valuable service and who has " made a difference" in the availability of women and girls cricket which may be at club, district or county level )
• Black Minority Ethnic Cricket ( an individual who has given long and valuable service and who has " made a difference" in the availability of cricket for young people from the Black Minority Ethnic communities)
Achievers
• Disability achiever of the year ( an individual from a disability group ( Learning
Disability, Physical Disability, Blind and Visually Impaired, Deaf and Hearing Impaired)
who has achieved high playing recognition and results in 2008-9 and/or who has by way
of example or direct help raised the aspirations of those playing disability cricket)
• Young Disability Performer of the Year ( A young person under 18 years from a disability group ( Learning Disability, Physical Disability, Blind and Visually Impaired, Deaf and Hearing Impaired) who has performed well and achieved great playing improvement )
• Ralph Pritchard Award - Volunteer of the Year (An individual whose volunteering efforts across a range of cricket activities in 2007-8 has truly " made a difference" to the cricket opportunities of those around them)
Francesca Anoble Memorial Young Leaders Award ( the YCB Young leader of the Year from the Yorkshire Cricket Young Leaders Academy and schemes)
• George Reah Special Award - No nominations can be made for this award which only be made if the Awards Panel feel there is someone special in an above category or comes very close in several categories that they deserve an award
All nominations are open to men, women , those from all groups including BME and those with disability serving cricket in their own context
AWARDS PANEL
Philip Radcliffe Board Chairman and Vice Chairman of YCA
Albert Pattison Board Vice-Chairman
Andrew Watson YCB Director of Development
Ian Chappell Chief Executive
[ None of the above are eligible for nomination or to nominate ]
Secretary to the Panel is the YCB CDM ( Volunteers) Gareth Davis
FINAL DATE FOR NOMINATIONS: Monday 30th June 2011
2010 Runners Up can be re-nominated
Nominate on the form attached ( photocopy if you need to ) or by downloading and e-mailing from one on the website : www.yorkshirecb.com . Nominations to Ian Chappell as per the nomination form
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