Danielle Chivers is forging a promising professional career with Cricket NSW, where she is the Blast Specialist for the Northern Beaches area. She played her junior cricket with West Pennant Hills Cherrybrook CC, and representative cricket for HK&HDCA, before progressing through the grades to First Grade with Northern District CC as a seam bowler.
Dani attended some HKHDCCA school holiday junior cricket clinics as a young player, before returning as an accredited coach in October 2019. She coached a total of 65 days with the Coaches’ Association up to 2022-23 and performed very well, being popular with the young players, especially the girls in her groups. Dani was presented with the HKHDCCA Rookie Coach Award in 2019-20.
She became one of the youngest Community (Level 1) accredited coaches at WPHC CC in 2018 when she completed the course and began coaching at the club’s junior academy and pre-season schools program. She performed her coaching role so confidently that WPHC CC appointed her as Head Coach of the club’s Junior Blasters in 2018-19.
Dani was recognised by Cricket NSW and Cricket Australia as the Young Community Leader of the Year at the national ‘A Sport For All’ Awards in 2020.
She also coached at the Cricket NSW / Sydney Sixers / HKHDCCA Girls cricket sessions; at various Blowfly Cricket (children with special needs) clinics; and co-ordinated the NDCC Women’s Social Cricket Program.
The Coaches’ Association is pleased to have played a part in Dani’s development as a cricket coach, as well as her leadership and organisational capabilities.
Dani made the following comments about her years with the Coaches’ Association:
“I was so lucky to have been given the opportunity to join the coaching team as a 15-year-old young female coach. The older coaches made me feel so welcome from day 1 and helped with tips as and when I asked, and I have made some great long-term friends from my days coaching with the Coaches’ Association. I was lucky that I knew some of the team from my days playing at West Pennant Hills Cherrybrook CC and as an Under 18 Brewer Shield player with Northern District CC, but I was always included in everything that the older coaches did. I especially enjoyed bowling at the top men’s Grade players during the Masterclass sessions at the school holiday clinics and even managed to get some of them out! The children I coached made every session special and I really do miss them, but HKHDCCA will always hold a place in my heart as I forge my career with Cricket NSW. I learnt so much from some amazing people and will always be thankful that Bruce and his team took a chance on me when they did”.
