Cricket North: Philip, Wegman lead Knights into 2021-22

The 28-year-old has succeeded Dean Hawkins atop the Knights hierarchy, taking on the director of coaching and high performance role while Belinda Wegman will aim to lead the women's side to a seventh-straight flag.

Philip, who won four of the five major awards at this year's Cricket North awards night, said he was looking forward to the challenge.

"The club president approached me a month or two ago and Dean Hawkins was the first one to put forward the idea of me doing a bit more this year, so I'm thankful for him trusting me and I'm really looking forward to it," the gun left-hander said.

"It won't look too much different from the outside, but internally it'll look slightly different.

"Dean Hawkins as club coach was doing the role of about 15 people, so my job this year won't be a club coach, it'll be more diffusing the responsibilities and the workload throughout the club with the idea of 'many hands make light work'."

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Northern Tasmania's most prolific turf batsman over the past three seasons, Philip knocked back offers from other clubs, including TCL giant Hadspen, to enter a 10^th season with the Knights.

"Other clubs did approach me, but I love South and I'm not going anywhere," the physio said.

"I was going to happily play for South Launceston this year and when this opportunity came up I grabbed it with both hands.

"What I'm most excited about are the changes to our junior program ... my new exciting thing is the Knights youth pathways between the under-15s and under-19s where we're going to focus a lot of our time on this year.

"We've got a lot of numbers in that bracket - I think most clubs find when you hit that age group you start to find a few other distractions.

"So it's good to maintain that development and hopefully our kids all come through together and start playing senior cricket and see the fruits of that labour."

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A veteran of the women's cricket scene, Wegman has led the Knights to all six of their Cricket North and Greater Northern Cup flags.

After another unbeaten season which saw Caitlyn Webster captain the Raiders to a CTPL final and Meg Radford called up to the state squad, the Knights are hoping to add a second-grade team to the mix this campaign.

"[Webster] is jumping on board as an assistant coach with me this year - hopefully there's a second-grade women's [competition] that gets going," Wegman said.

"We had a weekend one last year and hopefully every three weeks or something we'd be able to play.

"We're looking at that to help bring our juniors through .. a second-grade would be great for us and we're ready to take that on between us two."

Boasting the most Raiders players of any club, South Launceston has rarely been beaten during its six-year dominance of Northern cricket.

Wegman puts the side's success down to the club's culture of inclusivity.

"About three years ago we [started training] with the men and it's not better quality or anything, but probably more consistent bowling and batting with the guys and that's where our guys and girls have really developed over those few years," Wegman said.

"We've always had something to do with them at some stage and that's where our girls have really built their strengths."