Regional award for Wyre Netball Club coach Abby

A netball coach from the Fylde coast has beaten off strong competition to win a prestigious regional award.
Netabll coach Abby Chamberlain has won a prestigious awardNetabll coach Abby Chamberlain has won a prestigious award
Netabll coach Abby Chamberlain has won a prestigious award

Abby Chamberlain, head coach at Wyre Netball Club, has been named the ‘North West Grassroots Coach of the Year’ at the prestigious Goalden Globe Awards,

The annual event celebrates the achievements of clubs and individuals in one of the most popular women’s sports across the North West region.

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The grassroots award recognises outstanding contribution to grassroots netball at a club level, coaching as a volunteer, and recognises Abby’s impressive list list of achievements in recent years.

Not only has she achieved the highest level of coaching qualification but is an active coach from grass roots to elite levels.

During her time as head coach at Wyre Netball Club,, membership has grown to more than 300 young people and she led the Wyre club to ‘Sports Club of the Year' in a Wyre Council initiative in 2018

She has secured partnerships with local businesses and schools, negotiated a partnership with a local gym, and created a performance centre for netball at Rossall School in Fleetwood.

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Abby, who lives in Singleton, said: "I'm really proud of this award and would like to thank all those I have worked with to help make this happen."

And fellow Wyre coach Vikki Mayers said: "Abby's commitment to grassroot netball is phenomenal and her dedication to all players across a range of ages is something to be

proud of.

"Abby will always continue to keep pushing players, coaches and the club forward and for that, we are lucky to have her at the club."

The popular coach has also established netball training sessions across six venue hubs and has additionally recruited and mentored new male and female netball coaches into the Wyre

club.

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Throughout the school holidays Abby runs netball camps and elite performance workshops with Manchester Thunder and England Netball players to progress the players.

Following Abby’s success at the regional finals, she will now represent the north west in the England Netball Goalden Globe finals to be held next month, on December 8

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