Foundations Academy

Small group batting program for players aged 7-10 yrs.

Eight weeks. Multiple Locations. Capped at 20 players. Weekly Sessions. Term 4, 2026.

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A‍ges 7-10 ‍

Who It’s For

Players Per Group

Max 20

Term 4 2026

8 Weeks ‍

Per session

$35 ‍

Term 4 Locations

Toombul District Cricket Club

Information on times, days and dates coming soon.

Built for young players who are ready for more.

I founded Unleashed Batting for one reason. To help players of all ages and abilities fulfil their potential.

So far that's meant working with elite youth and high-level senior players. And that's been incredibly rewarding. But here's the thing about working with older players — by the time they arrive, habits are already formed. Skills are already set. Some good, some not so good. At that level my job is to maximise what they can achieve by refining their process and deepening their understanding of their own game. That's meaningful work.

But building completely new skills and habits from scratch? That's a different challenge entirely. And it's a much harder one.

That's why we're launching the Foundations Academy.

I want to give young players access to the kind of environment that the best cricketers in the world had when they were growing up — structured, purposeful and built around what actually matters at a young age. Power development. Body positioning. Balance. Fundamental movement. And a wide range of shots developed with freedom rather than fear.

The Foundations Academy gives participants access to our Unleashed Skill Development System — an incremental framework that builds the right skills in the right order, at the right age.

Eight weeks. Term 4. Multiple locations around Brisbane.

This is where it starts.

What Happens in a Session

60 Mins of Structured, purposeful batting development

Every Foundations Academy session follows the same structure. Three zones. One weekly theme. A focused set of activities designed to build real skills in a real environment.

This isn't random coaching. It's a targeted, incremental skill development system — built from the ground up to give young batters the foundation they need to flourish.

Each week, every player spends time in all three zones:

The Arena — 30 minutes of game-based competition with half the group. Every game is tied to the week's theme. High energy, genuinely fun and purposeful.

The Lab — 15 minutes of analysis and reflection. Players dissect the skill, understand what good looks like and get specific feedback on their own performance.

The Workshop — 15 minutes of high volume drilling. Repetition. Reps. Building the habit through targeted, focused practice.

Same structure every week. Different theme. Incremental progression. Real skills being built session by session.

The Lab

15 mins- 5 Players

The lab is our video analysis zone. Each player gets specific feedback on their technique and skill performance via video analysis from one of our coaches. This is where players get to see how to improve.

The Arena

30 mins- 10 Players

Game-based learning focused around the theme of the session. In the arena, we embed the learning of the skill in a meaningful game to accelerate development

The Workshop

15 mins- 5 Players

This is our high volume zone where players hit loads of balls with focus directly on the chosen skill of the day. Automatic feeders and bowling machines will ensure the quality of the feeds remains high for young players.

Coaching Team

Daine Macdonald

Unleashed Batting Junior Specialist 

Daine is the foundations academy head coach and a core part of the Unleashed Batting coaching team. He brings genuine cricket experience as an elite youth player and former Brisbane First grader and has extensive experience as a junior coach in the school space as a First XI coach, club space as a Lords Taverners coach and privately as our Unleashed Junior specialist. Daine is looking forward to the opportunity to lead a coaching team that is focused on the meaningful development of young cricketers in the program.

Unleashed Batting Founder and Head Coach 

Thomas Rowley

Tom is the founder of Unleashed Batting and the brainchild behind the Foundations academy. Over the course of 6 months, Daine and Tom have been meticulously designing the concept behind the foundations academy to ensure that it’s fit for purpose. Tom will provide regular coaching assistance to the program, as well as training to the other Unleashed assistant coaches within the program. He is really excited about the capacity of this program to change the way that we look at the development of junior batters.

Ready to secure your spot? Foundations Academy Term 4, 2026. 20 spots available. Registrations Open Soon. Contact us if you’d like to secure your spot early.

Keen to see how it works? Sign Up for our Come and Try Day on August the 16th.