New Central Pulse Coach announced

The Central Pulse franchise has today announced Yvette McCausland-Durie will coach the Central Pulse in the 2009 season of the ANZ Championship.

Central Pulse Chair Nigel Kirkpatrick is pleased the appointment will bring the Central Pulse a wealth of expertise and experience from the Central region as well as from her role as the NZU21 Coach.

“Yvette has done a lot for the Central Netball region having been involved for many years with Netball Manawatu and a past coach of the Western Flyers. She has shown she has a great aptitude for developing players at all levels and we have great faith in her ability to build up a competitive team for 2009.”

McCausland-Durie will now go about finalizing her coaching support team over the next week. Due to the late appointment of McCausland-Durie the ANZ Championship has now granted the Central Pulse franchise a further 18 working days extension to finalise their playing roster.

Central Pulse Chair Nigel Kirkpatrick said they were working through negotiations with players but due to the late appointment of their new head coach they felt it only prudent to ask for an extension so they could have coach involvement in finalising the player roster.

McCausland-Durie said she was thrilled to take on the new role as head coach of the central Pulse.

“I have a huge amount of passion for developing netball in the central region and I am really excited at the challenge of bringing together the most competitive Central Pulse team to compete in the 2009 ANZ Championship,” she said.