Good Sports 

​​​​​​​Good Sports is an initiative that is designed to create a positive sports environment for children aged 7-13 years old in order to encourage life-long participation. Ensuring Kiwi kids have positive sporting experiences has long-lasting and wide-ranging benefits to those children and their communities, and whānau are the biggest key to that. Support from Good Sports extends beyond whānau however, to coaches, teachers, schools and community sport leaders. That support helps those adults understand and identify the needs of children whilst meeting the expectations of all participants in community sport.

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BALANCE IS BETTER

Balance is Better is an evidence-based philosophy to support quality sport experiences for all young people, regardless of ability, needs and motivations. It is about young people staying involved in sport for life and realising their potential at the right time. 

The Balance is Better philosophy has been developed by the New Zealand sport system (e.g. sport organisations, leaders and administrators, schools, clubs, coaches, parents and volunteers) to support the culture change needed to provide quality sport opportunities for tamariki (5-11) and rangatahi (12-18). Sport NZ’s current focus is on rangatahi, given the decline we are seeing in teenage participation. 

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