1. DIAMOND SPORTS CONCEPT SOFTBALL NEW ZEALAND AGM 2010

2. Change is inevitable. Progress is optional. Your Board is: looking over the horizon searching for opportunities open to ideas exploring and Challenging

3. OBSERVATIONS Profile? Resources? Relevance? Contemporary?

4. PROPOSAL Softball Baseball Slow Pitch The pitcher’s plate is the common starting point - “ starting out” programs for kids. T-BallMasters

5. EXAMPLES

7. Men’s Artistic Women’s Artistic

8. PROPOSED APPROACH EXPLORE THE BENEFITS 0 Strengths of softball + 0 Strengths of baseball + 0 Strengths of slow pitch + 0 Strengths of T-Ball DIAMOND SPORT CONCEPT

9. OBJECTIVE 0 Determine whether there is a framework or structure that allows the different formats to work collectively under the concept of Diamond Sports in order to:  Get more kids playing and keep them playing  Improve pathways for players, coaches, umpires, scorers  Increase the profile of the sports  Improve funding and stability

10. CONSIDERATIONS 0 administration and overheads 0 variant by age group 0 pathways to elite performance 0 financial implications 0 field allocations and utilisation 0 media coverage and Diamond Sports profile 0 growth opportunities 0 2010/2011 project