MWDBA Board Nominations – Michael ONeil

MICHAEL O’NEIL

MWDBA Board Nominations

Baseball Administration Experience

  • North Sydney Leagues Baseball board member that took a PCBL club to AAA club status in the 1980’s. Helped develop North Sydney Leagues Junior Baseball Club under the NS Bears Leagues Club helping the juniors to get financial sponsorship $ to run independently
  • Seasiders Baseball Club past president & life member
  • MWJBL past president & life member, where we were instrumental in trying to save North Shore Baseball Association after it was split in two in 2004 as a result of BNSW disaffiliating NSW Junior Baseball Inc. This move saw Norths Juniors join MWJBL until MWDBA recently saw Norths Juniors leave to join the Ryde association decimating our junior numbers & competition
  • 2017 to present – State League president.

Coaching Career

  • All ages from U8s – u16 Seasiders
  • MWJBL u12s, u14s, u16 State Cup teams, u12’s,u14’s,u16’s MWJBL Association Cup teams, highlight 2002 u12s State Cup Champions
  • BNSW- 7 National Youth Championship campaigns, 2012-2018, u14s-bronze, u16s-2 Gold,1 silver, 1 Bronze, u18s- 1 gold, 1 silver
  • BNSW coaching accreditation accessor 2014 – 2020
  • UNSW Baseball Head Coach 2012 – 15
  • Manly State League – 1999 to present – various coaching appointments
  • Presently Narrabeen Sports High Baseball Academy HC . Highlight – Proud Shield Champions 2019. This state wide baseball knockout is Australia’s oldest schools team sporting trophy, first played for in 1909.

MWDBA Focus

  • A fair and equitable representation of the 4 areas within MW baseball, which was the reason for starting MWDBA day one
  • Junior growth is sadly in decline. Junior growth is paramount to ML and SL future participants and must be a main focus going forward for MWDBA
  • State Leagues continued growth in Women’s Baseball needs key attention as women’s sport has seen a huge increase in participation recently
  • MWDBA needs a unified board to focus on constitutional change and finally get a strategic plan in place so that any future growth in MW baseball can happen

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