14/04/2026
3 years ago BlowFly Cricket came to town. Tomorrow, they’re coming back!!
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Here is an article that was written in 2023 because it’s too beautiful not to share:
Coffs bowled over by Uncoachable Coaches
The Uncoachable Coaches have become sporting heroes on the Coffs Coast after their recent school holiday tour.
Specialist Paediatric Physiotherapist, Kay Joseph, of Coffs Kids in Motion, has long seen the need to run group physical activity sessions for children with additional needs. When Exercise Physiologist, Alex Bruggisser, joined her team, it gave her the opportunity to fulfill this dream.
Coffs Kids in Motion now run sport-specific group sessions each school holidays. With Summer approaching, Alex suggested Cricket might now be appropriate. Kay initially had some reservations about how Cricket drills and skills could be adapted to suit the kids she works with but gave Alex the thumbs up to pursue the idea.
It didn’t take Alex long to find out about Blowfly Cricket and connect with Mark Rushton. When she rang to pick his brain about resources, she was overwhelmed and thrilled when he offered to bring coaches up to Coffs to run a session.
On the day, power chairs, support workers and parents were left for dead as the Uncoachables enthusiastically introduced a group of 7 kids to Cricket. Throwing, bowling, batting and teamwork were the order of the day with a game and medal ceremony the highlight that finished things off!
It wasn’t only the development of cricket skills that made this such an incredible experience for these kids! As well as a taste for the sport, therapeutically there were remarkable advances in social skills, trust and relationship development which several weeks later, are still evident! Hopefully we are pre-skilling some kids so that they can one day integrate into community-based cricket.
We hope the tour was just as rewarding for the Uncoachables and that with our powers combined (and the spoils of the Big Banana), that we can continue this affiliation!
