Nicola McIntyre - Club Chair and Primary Head Coach (L2)I became a part of Infernos in 2009 when my daughter was 9. During that time, the club consisted of a small committee and enough for two teams, entering three or four local Junior Tournaments in the year 5/ 6 age category. I only watched for one training session before I threw myself in to helping the coaching sessions then I soon became involved from the committee side.
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I took on the role as fundraiser to begin with and raised over £10,000 through general fundraising and an England Lottery grant. In addition to this, I organised several Tournaments a year earning the club some funds to be able to grow and become financially independent.
In 2011 I went through my coaching badges and became a Level 2 coach and also became the Chairperson of the Club. I coached and was involved in every age group of the club from 2011 to 2019 and I loved every minute of watching girls develop into netball superstars. The netball took up quite a lot of my personal time so, when my daughter reached 17 in September 2019, I temporarily stopped coaching to focus on my studies, new job, family and other personal goals. I'm back coaching again and loving working with our early years group plus the Year 4 team too. Now in 2024, it makes me so proud to see the teams’ updates of wins, losses and lessons among all the teams from U8 through to U16's. We currently play approximately 1100 matches and enter up to six tournaments a year including taking squads away for a whole weekend. I still the remain the Chairperson, and I will continue to push to club to raise its standards in everything we do. |
Darcey Parr – High School Head Coach (L2)I’ve always had a love for netball, throughout high school and college I took great pride in competing at county and national level. I captained my high school team for 5 years and won many awards for outstanding netball at sports presentations.
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I carried on playing netball in college for Newman Academy first team where I found my feet as a defender. The team went on to National and British college tournaments where I was awarded coaches player at the end of my final year. I currently play for Blackpool in the NW Premier Division and am delighted that we got National Finals this year.
I am a very enthusiastic, confident person who works extremely hard on creating a positive training environment for myself, my team mates and other players. I find adding variety to training helps improve focus as well as stimulating the players to help improve their performance. My expertise is in fitness, is what I feel is one of the most important aspects of netball. I make it fun enjoyable and specific to netball to keep the girls motivated. Netball is all about the team, working together, supporting each other and finding success together, this is the foundation of the game and what I love most about it. I’m a bubbly, kind, caring person who wants to see everyone do well and progress. |
Vicky Hetherington – Vice Chair/Treasurer and High School Assistant Head Coach (L2)
I have always had a passion for all sport and specifically netball! During my school and college years I played netball for my school, club and county captaining all of the teams at one particular point. I continued to play throughout University until injury put a stop to my netball career for a number of years. I then concentrated on swimming specifically open water swimming to challenge myself and to try and keep fit. |
I returned to netball with Infernos when my daughter joined as a member about 5 years ago. I have since have been involved with the Inferno Team as a Committee member and then as Player/Coach for our adults for the last couple of years. I am a Level 2 coach and assist Darcey with the high school years as well as running the Club with Nicola. I sometimes feel that I think about netball 24/7 but, this is something I love and enjoy and I really do think that exercise is such an important part of every day life! Eat, sleep, netball, repeat!
I love to see all of our players grow and develop, the progress some of our girls make in a short space of time is exceptional. Their energy and enthusiasm week after week makes it so rewarding being part of their journey. Winning or losing I absolutely love watching them play their matches and then taking back what we have learnt and need to work on in training. I equally love playing games myself and can honestly recommend getting back to netball if you have had a break for a number of years. It is such a brilliant workout! |
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