About Me
Kyle Thompson
Warwick, Queensland, Australia
Principal at The SCOTS PGC College
Played NSW Premier Cricket for Waverley now Eastern Suburbs
Played NSW Premier Cricket for Waverley now Eastern Suburbs
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Q: Who is the one player from Sydney Grade Cricket who played between 1980 and 2000 you’d want as the first player selected if you had the opportunity to start your own NSW Premier first grade cricket team?
A: Choosing from players I’ve played against rather than with, Brad McNamara. Scored 100s for fun and more than handy with the ball, all whilst playing hard on the field and off in teams that won
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Q: Community. We tend to throw this word around quite a bit in our workplaces, our schools and even our political landscape, but what does it really mean and how does sport play a part in ensuring our community is a healthy one? In the educational space, i.e. schools, sport is a vital aspect of the holistic development of individuals, that in turn go on to influence the society in which we live.
As coach of a cricket team, I believe this “team” is an excellent representation of what a community is and does. Indeed, one could draw the analogy from any number of sports but for this purpose, I’ll stick to the cricket ideology.
As coach of a cricket team, I believe this “team” is an excellent representation of what a community is and does. Indeed, one could draw the analogy from any number of sports but for this purpose, I’ll stick to the cricket ideology.
https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/909/kyle-thompson/blog/1348/sport-community-and-the-development-of-young-men-and-women
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Community. We tend to throw this word around quite a bit in our workplaces, our schools and even our political landscape, but what does it really mean and how does sport play a part in ensuring our ...
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Q: In November 1988, 12 souls who braved the inaugural year of the AIS/ACB Commonwealth Bank Cricket Academy gathered in Brisbane to mark the 30-year anniversary of what was, for us, and incredible year.
As part of two days of reminiscing we visited the current Centre of Excellence, based in Brisbane. The programmes and facilities for today’s athletes are light years ahead of that experienced by the original 15 of us back in 1988.
The current facility is incredible – lap pool, hot pool, cold pool, recovery room/MASH Unit, nets with pitches designed to replicate different conditions and a state-of-the-art gymnasium – I could go on. My overarching thought when touring the facilities was that they definitely would have helped me become a better athlete, but not necessarily a better cricketer.
Since 1988 there have been 389 athletes move through a programme that has morphed in every way imaginable. We were a squad of 15 who were farmed out to local Adelaide Grade Clubs, this moved to a squad of 24 where they essentially toured and played each other, and the current thinking is that more concentrated groups of elite talent in shorter bursts of high intensity training
As part of two days of reminiscing we visited the current Centre of Excellence, based in Brisbane. The programmes and facilities for today’s athletes are light years ahead of that experienced by the original 15 of us back in 1988.
The current facility is incredible – lap pool, hot pool, cold pool, recovery room/MASH Unit, nets with pitches designed to replicate different conditions and a state-of-the-art gymnasium – I could go on. My overarching thought when touring the facilities was that they definitely would have helped me become a better athlete, but not necessarily a better cricketer.
Since 1988 there have been 389 athletes move through a programme that has morphed in every way imaginable. We were a squad of 15 who were farmed out to local Adelaide Grade Clubs, this moved to a squad of 24 where they essentially toured and played each other, and the current thinking is that more concentrated groups of elite talent in shorter bursts of high intensity training
https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/528/adrian-tucker/blog/1191/so-thatrsquos-what-30-years-feels-like
A: This is an outstanding reflection. Just outstanding. Makes one reflect on their own experiences in cricket and beyond
