Cricket ACT

But for girls, there's only one competition at the moment.

We work with Cricket ACT to come up with ways to keep girls engaged and give them options as they get older.

So this partnership with Noughts has been a really valuable.

Yarra B was established only in 2021, but its growth in that time has led to 15 junior teams playing cricket each weekend.

Michael is flying through his 10th year of his S&C career, sifting through the physical preparation puzzle of modern cricket.

Currently the physical performance coach with the men's program at the South Australian Cricket Association, and previously held the position of physical performance and SSSM manager with Cricket ACT.

He has a Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Master's in Exercise Science, Strength and Conditioning, and is ASCA/PCA professional level two and level three cricket coach.

Michael Barrington, welcome to the ASCA Podcast.

So then obviously turned my attention to staying involved with the sport.

Um, bit of a roundabout way, but got involved from a, I guess, a personal training point of view first.

So I went through and did PT after my first uni degree, which was in psychology, and then sort of became a little bit more official and got the ASCA accreditations, um, and started working, uh, sort of part-time with Cricket ACT, uh, which was probably the first opportunity in terms of pathway programs, but then also the female program that was running down there.

And then obviously over a, over a few years, that sort of evolved into a more full-time role.

If the sale goes ahead, the site will be donated to the federal government or a trust for the construction of the stadium.

Senator Gallagher, a former ACT chief minister, signaled qualified support from the federal government.

"The opportunity to think about the best use for the site if the Archbishop land became available is an opportunity too good to miss," Senator Gallagher said.

The site falls under the jurisdiction of the National Capital Authority, not the ACT government.

Canberra Airport Chief Executive Stephen Byron was hopeful that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese would back the lakeside replacement for the rundown Canberra Stadium in Bruce.

"This is Commonwealth land.

Inspired by Christchurch's recently opened Te Kaha Stadium, it would seat around twenty-five thousand people for sporting fixtures and thirty-five thousand for concerts.

Details of the proposal were revealed as Chief Minister Andrew Barr was overseas on official business.