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2 unusual facts about netball


Girls Sport Victoria

Zoned groups of schools were established for weekly interschool competitions in Netball, Basketball, Softball, Tennis, Indoor Cricket, Hockey, Waterpolo, Soccer, Volleyball and Badminton.

Hartlepool Sixth Form College

The College's Netball team plays in the National Super League and academy players benefit from a close partnership with Oaksway Netball Club.


1987 World Netball Championships

The 1987 World Netball Championships was the seventh staging of the World Netball Championships, the premier tournament in international netball, held every four years.

Ama Agbeze

Ama Agbeze (surname pronounced "Ab-wear-zeh") (born 12 November 1982 in Selly Oak, England) is an English international netball player.

Arnold Hill Academy

A large "Dutch barn" meant a covered 'all weather playground' and served as a viable sports area for netball, basketball etc. when the weather was bad.

Blair Athol, South Australia

It features a football oval, cricket ground with batting cages, two netball/basketball courts and tennis courts which are exclusively used by members of the Kilburn tennis club.

Cestoball

Cestoball is a sport created in Argentina, during the conference in Buenos Aires and Santa Rosa in 1986, with the purpose of making the old Argentine sport called 'pelota al cesto' (ball to basket) more dynamic and homogenising its rules with korfball and netball.

Commonwealth Games England

CGE is governed by a board of Non-executive Directors, chaired by Sir Andrew Foster, including as of October 2013, former England international netballer Karen Atkinson, President of Speedo International Limited David Robinson, and co-founder of Carphone Warehouse and British Olympic Association non-executive director David Ross, amongst other experts from fields including sport, marketing and finance.

Denise Langford

Langford is the mother of Australian netball player Kimberlee Green.

Emu Heights, New South Wales

Clissold Park is host to great diversity of Australia's fauna and flora and features basketball, netball and children's playground facilities.

Fedlim Mac Giolla Seanáin

Latter-day bearers of the name include the film-maker, Alan Gilsenan and netball player Selina Gilsenan.

Flagstaff Hill, South Australia

The team sports hub of Flagstaff Hill is the Flagstaff Hill Sports and Community Centre, home of the Flagstaff Hill Football Club, Flagstaff Hill Cricket Club, Flagstaff Hill Tennis Club, Flagstaff Athletics, Happy Valley Netball Club and Southern Hills Little Athletics.

Garth Kydd

He is the husband of Australian international Cynna Kydd, though as netball is a sport traditionally dominated by women, Kydd has only a fraction of the profile of his partner.He also was a teacher in Goldbeaters Primary school.

Highlands Primary School, Redbridge

The school is ethnically diverse with a wide range of extracurricular activities such as African drumming, Indian dance and instrumental, drama, recorders and orchestra, plus competitive rugby, netball and football.

Irene van Dyk

In that Final, Van Dyk once again performed with skill and determination in what was an enthralling battle against Australian Goal Keeper and home town girl Bianca Chatfield who gave a sterling, if ultimately unsuccessful performance, against the World's most recognisable netball player.

Ironbank, South Australia

Ironbank also has an Australian rules football club (the Ironbank-Cherry Gardens Thunderers), a tennis club and netball club.

Janine Southby

Southby retired from netball after the 2003 season and became the Rebels assistant coach for 2004 and 2005, working under Lois Muir.

Joel Reddy

He is also the brother of Bianca Reddy who plays netball for the Adelaide Thunderbirds.

Karabar High School

"Over the years the band has performed in Queanbeyan and Canberra. The first performances were at Anzac Day and the Highland Gathering in 1991. Since then they have performed in Queanbeyan and Canberra Festivals, numerous sporting events such as Canberra Raiders, Queanbeyan Tigers and North Melbourne matches, local netball march pasts, Masters Games, polo cross and many school and community events such as Floriade, the Uniting Church Fete, the Burra Fair and the Canberra Show."

Kathryn Harby-Williams

She currently works with Radio Sport New Zealand and is a Sky TV commentator for Sky Sport 1's live netball coverage of the ANZ Championship and international tests, along with former Silver Ferns Tania Dalton and Anna Stanley, and with co-Australian national representative Natalie Avellino; she also co-hosts the weekly netball show On Court with Stanley.

Ken Kandodo

He is sponsor of the Ken Kandodo Trophy, which presents awards to soccer and netball teams in and around Kasungu.

Lesley Nicol

Lesley Rumball (born 1973), former New Zealand netball player; born Lesley Marie Nicol

Lesley Rumball

She and her husband travelled overseas following her retirement from top-level netball, living two years in the United Kingdom followed by a year at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra.

Lois Quarrell

Quarrells’ work regularly identified and recognised the skill of South Australia’s early pioneers in women’s sport including Australian representatives Mabel Cashmore and Evelyn Tazewell in hockey, Netballers Gwen Rankin and Lorna Ryan, Cricketers Dot Laughton and Barbara Orchard and the state’s first female Olympian, swimmer Denise Norton.

Mary Waya

After the 2010 World Series in Liverpool, Waya again announced her retirement from international netball, along with Queens veterans Peace Chawinga-Kalua and Esther Nkhoma.

Mr. Stringy

The characters are often of a topical nature, such as a player from the Omeo & District Football League premiership football or netball team for that year, a cyclist complete with a bicycle when the Great Victorian Bike Ride travelled along the Great Alpine Road, and Cadel Evans following his win in the 2011 Tour de France.

Natalie Avellino

In 2004 she fell out with Netball Australia and was drafted to New Zealand playing for the Invercargill-based Southern Sting in the National Bank Cup, a team which won seven out of ten of the National Bank Cup titles (1999–2004, 2007) as a backup shooter for Donna Wilkins and Tania Dalton who later got injured.

Netball in Fiji

Netball in Fiji is a popular sport, with a men's and a women's national team.

Netball in Lesotho

Lesotho has a national netball league, and has participated in as well as hosted several netball tournaments.

Netball in Tonga

In the 1990 Oceania Netball Tournament, Tonga competed along with countries like Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and the Cook Islands.

Port Broughton, South Australia

The town has a number of sporting clubs including Cricket and Netball clubs, and an Australian rules football club playing in the Northern Areas Football Association as the Broughton-Mundoora Eagles.

Quaama, New South Wales

It is also the hometown of Australian international netball player Susan Pratley.

Ricky Dyson

For several years Dyson participated in Essendon's "On the Ball" program, which involved him and teammate Brent Prismall, as well as netball players Shelley O'Donnell and Bianca Chatfield, meeting with school groups and educating them on issues such as drug use and sports.

Rules of netball

--This section was copy and pasted piece meal from the history of netball section. !-->In 1893, Martina Bergman-Österberg informally introduced one version of basketball to her female physical training students at the Hampstead Physical Training College in London, after having seen the game being played in the United States.

Tania Dalton

She currently works as a netball commentator on SKY Sports for international tests, the ANZ Championship and National Championships, alongside former internationals Anna Stanley, Natalie Avellino, Kathryn Harby-Williams and Bernice Mene.

In 2008, Tania Dalton made a minor comeback to elite netball replacing injured Australian import Megan Dehn in the Southern Steel line.

Toni Street

She assumed the reins from the TVNZ duo of Lavina Good and Brendan Telfer, who both stood down after the completion of National Bank Cup netball in 2007.

Tracey Neville

Her father Neville Neville was a former professional cricketer and her mother used to play netball in the local leagues.

Vagana

Linda Vagana (born 1971), New Zealand netball player and coach


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