Cricket at St Lawrence
After our last outdoor cricket training session, the Sports Excellence cricketers moved onto a six week fitness programme to begin athletic development improvements for the Summer term. Sprints, Yo-Yo test, Rapsodo Cricket, Military Fitness and more helped to develop key components of fitness such as endurance, footwork and strength. It was great to see the new additions to the programme get stuck in and physically test themsevels. From September through to April, all the SEP cricketers were involved in various training programmes from Early Bird sessions, Twilight training sessions, 1-on-1’s, group nets, batting & bowling clinics and the schools Cricket Academy. Numbers were low at this year’s Cricket Academy but we hope to have them pick back up for next year. We returned in the new academic year with Sports Excellence cricket training at Broadstairs CC. Due to a number of Leavers, this brought a lot of opportunities to younger and developing cricketers which proved to be of huge benefit. As always the batting & bowling was rotated every week to provide data for the winter programme.
The Academy is designed to push the players both physically and mentally but also provide them with an enjoyable environment that will prepare them as thoroughly as possible for the approaching season. The Cricket Academy is a stepping stone to the Sports Excellence cricket programme which starts at year 9 and is by invitation only. Throughout the Academy sessions we worked on all aspects of cricket from batting, bowling, fielding and wicketkeeping where of improvements were made.
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