The club’s junior cricket section benefits from a large number of volunteer coaches with a range of experience and coaching skills.
Many of our coaches are players – often products of the CACC player development system themselves. Many are parents of current or past junior players. Others are looking develop professional careers as teachers or coaches of the game.
All our coaches have up-to-date DBS checks, with up-to-date first aid and child safeguarding certificates, and are minimum ECB Level 1 qualified cricket coaches.
Sid Corley
Junior chairman
Sid is a ECB Level 2 coach who began coaching in 2006 when we had a boost of players following the legendary Ashes of 2005. Sid has stayed with the U9 section as his main coaching focus and also leads CACC’s ECB All Stars programme.
His role oversees all age groups from All Stars at age 5 to the U19 side. Sid was a junior player with CACC himself in the 80s and 90s and continues to play in our senior sides having now made the most appearances for the club as a wicketkeeper/batsman.
Mick Pickering
Senior cricket coach and club safeguarding officer
Mick is an ECB Level 3 coach with over 30 years’ experience coaching junior teams at Clifton Alliance. He is an ECB Coach Developer and is also heavily involved in the York area junior representative sides and the Yorkshire Boys County Age Group Performance Pathways.
Matt Bennett
Junior cricket coach
Matt is an ECB Level 2 cricket coach who has managed various CACC teams from U9 through to U15. He is also an FA Level 2 football coach.
George Brown
Junior cricket coach
George is an ECB Level 2 cricket coach who will bring his extensive cricketing experience into coaching the senior First XI as well as the U11s this year.
He was the first captain of the senior 4th XI with a view to introducing some of CACC’s younger players to senior cricket (juniors are eligible to play senior cricket from their U13 season and above).
Thomas Brown
Junior cricket coach
Thomas is an ECB Foundation Level 1 coach currently working towards his Level 2 qualification. Having obtained a BTEC in Sport Performance and Excellence at Yorkshire Cricket College, he is now studying for a degree in Sports Coaching at Leeds Beckett University.
Thomas bowls off-spin in the First XI and has played representative and district cricket at junior levels and represented Yorkshire CCC at the U19 age.
Mollie Hardwick
Junior cricket coach
Mollie is an ECB Foundation 1 cricket coach and has helped coach our younger age groups since 2018. She is also a Level 3 Early Years educator and is currently studying at Leeds Beckett University to become a play therapist. This summer she will travel to New York to coach cricket for the Fresh Air Fund, COVID permitting.
Jack Heartshorne
Junior cricket coach
Jack is an ECB Level 2 cricket coach who also plays for the senior XIs as a bowler, featuring in the First XI’s Yorkshire Premier League North championship-winning season in 2024. Having studied BTEC Sport Fitness and Coaching at York College, Jack has previously managed CACC’s Under 11A and B teams and also coached football at Rawcliffe JFC.
Colin Park
Junior cricket coach
Colin is an ECB Level 2 cricket coach and has been coaching at Clifton Alliance since 2017. Having previously worked with the Under 13s, he has been working mainly with the Under 15 age group since 2020.