Former Silver Fern Coach Yvonne Willering will judge entries to the ‘Best Netballer of the Year’ category of the Indian Newslink Indian Sports Awards 2012.
Yvonne Willering played as a provincial representative netballer from 1968 until 1985 and for the Silver Ferns from 1974 to 1983. She trained as a lab technologist at Auckland Hospital and was later employed as a microbiologist in New Zealand and the United Kingdom until 1985. In 1986, she returned to New Zealand and became Coaching Director for Netball New Zealand, a position she held for two years.
Over the next decade, she held the prestigious position of Silver Ferns Coach, Regional Netball Coordinator for Netball New Zealand, Netball Director for ASB Bank, Netball North Harbour Coaching Director, Coaching to Fujiforce, the LG Mystics and contract coach on occasions, to the Vixens, Magic and Firebirds. Her coaching career, which started in 1986, has included national and Fijian national teams and various provincial and regional teams.
Yvonne holds several New Zealand coaching awards and in 2002, was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.
“Self-esteem and success is not achieved by simply defeating others, but by living up to your own standards. Players should be encouraged to take pride in their own performance. Being the best is what we strive for, but as important is to do your best. In any sport, strive to do the basics perfectly, rather than simply being satisfied to execute them well. With two teams of equal ability, it is the team who makes the least mistakes and capitalises on those made by the opposition who will win the game.”
