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Proudly Vanuatuan
Wednesday 12 August 2009 | Published in Netball
Tuesday 11: The Vanuatu under 21 squad will be looking to their goal shooters to lead the way at these World Youth Netball Championships. The team has four speciality goal shoot and goal attack players who have been shooting up to 1000 goals on average at each of their training sessions. Team technical adviser Sarah […]
England dominate valiant Vanuatu
Wednesday 12 August 2009 | Published in Netball
Wednesday 12: The English netballers barely broke a sweat when they showed their might against one of the newcomers to the championships, Vanuatu. Yesterday’s 110-9 result ran more like a cricket score as English shooters Kirsty Delves and Ella Clark racked up the goals. The English team even had a sizeable home support team who […]
Crunch matches
Wednesday 12 August 2009 | Published in Netball
Tuesday 11: The crunch matches today will be in the toughest pool where tournament favourite Australia plays South Africa and Pacific neighbours Fiji and Samoa go head to head. After flying in yesterday morning from Los Angeles, the USA face a daunting task in taking on Jamaica in the first game of the day at […]
Tough day under goal
Wednesday 12 August 2009 | Published in Netball
Wednesday 12: Nineteen-year-old Cemara Gordon is the goal keeper for team USA. Cemara is a freshman (first year) at high school (or university) and really enjoyed playing against Jamaica’s star shooter Romelda Aiken in her team’s first match up at the World Youth Netball Championships. Her pride and joy is definitely her bouncy hair which […]
World Youth Day marked at WYNC
Wednesday 12 August 2009 | Published in Netball
Tuesday 11: Cook Islanders will be promoting International Youth Day today at the World Youth Netball Championships at the Telecom Sports Arena. There will be a booth where the day will be promoted through lots of youth oriented information and freebies. This year the national youth council is celebrating the theme of the day ‘sustainability: […]
A century for Jamaica
Wednesday 12 August 2009 | Published in Netball
Wednesday 12: Jamaica’s Sunshine Girls scored the first century of the World Youth Netball Championships yesterday, smashing the hapless USA side 109-11. Romelda Aiken was the star of the Jamaican side, towering over US defender Cemara Gordon – potting the goals at will and helping her side power away to a 25-5 lead after the […]
Anti doping explained
Wednesday 12 August 2009 | Published in Netball
Tuesday 11: Lee Jones (left) from Drug Free Sports New Zealand has been running a workshop on anti-doping procedures for the World Youth Netball Championships. Jones held his first workshop with team chaperones yesterday to inform them how the drug testing process will be conducted during the championships. He explained what is expected of athletes […]
First up win for Singapore
Wednesday 12 August 2009 | Published in Netball
Wednesday 12: Singapore coach Mary Lee says the shaky start against Papua New Guinea at the World Youth Netball Championships yesterday could be put down to nerves. PNG, which is making its debut at the under 21 tournament, drew level 9-all at the first quarter, but then fell away by halftime (16-27) to eventually lose […]
Kia orana, Botswana!
Wednesday 12 August 2009 | Published in Netball
Monday 10: The Botswana under 21 team is hoping to learn a lot more about netball and the Cook Islands during the week-long World Youth Netball Championships. Assistant team coach Oteng Masole says that the girls have settled after a long haul from Botswana and they are looking forward to the championships. Masole was certainly […]
Nail biting finish to first win
Wednesday 12 August 2009 | Published in Netball
Tuesday 11: The Cook Islands under 21 netball team got their World Youth Netball Championships campaign off to the best possible start with a nail biting win over Wales yesterday. The Pool B match opened the championships in thrilling fashion with the Cooks showing grit and determination to keep the Welsh at bay. The Cooks […]
Australia outclass South Africa
Wednesday 12 August 2009 | Published in Netball
Wednesday 12: Australia is not here to get a sun tan and proved this was true when they outclassed South Africa 73-22 in their pool C game yesterday. Australia built a solid foundation in the first quarter racking up 18 goals to South Africa’s 5, and shutting down hardworking centre Bongiwe Msomi. In the shooting […]
National netballers step up intensity
Wednesday 29 April 2009 | Published in Netball
Wednesday 29: With the local club netball season nearing the end, members of the 2009 Pacific Mini Games netball squad will head into more intense training. Team head coach Mii Maui says that over the past few months, the team has been training with her just once a week as all the team members are […]
Premier rivalry continues in Rarotonga netball comp
Wednesday 29 April 2009 | Published in Netball
Friday 24: The Takuvaine netball club will play rivals Titikaveka this weekend when the local competition gets underway today. Both the premier sides from these two clubs have shared the silverware over the past decade. Titikaveka is unbeaten this season, and after dishing out a hiding to Takuvaine in the first round, they should go […]
World youth under 21 netball team finalised
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in Netball
Wednesday 22: National under 21 head coach Teresa Tairi has made her final team selection to play in the World Youth Netball Championships in August. Tairi says she made her final decision based on a number of factors including the general fitness of players, on-court performance, off-court behaviour and the player’s overall contribution to the […]
Club netball restarts today
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in Netball
Friday 17: The club netball season fires back into action today with the open 1 and open 2 grade matches to be played out today. This week, point’s table leader Titikaveka (1037 points) will face old foes Avatiu in what is surely to be an action packed encounter. That’s because Avatiu on 1020 points only […]
U21 netballers meet their match
Wednesday 15 April 2009 | Published in Netball
Wednesday 15: Both the Cook Islands under 21 squad and the Pacific Mini Games squad have a better understanding of what preparations they need to do before the World Youth Netball Championships in August and the mini games in September. The under 21 team faced the mini games team on Saturday and Monday where the […]
First game by under 21 netball reps
Wednesday 15 April 2009 | Published in Netball
Thursday 9: The national under 21 training squad will have the first match of their whirlwind Rarotonga tour this afternoon against a selection of top local under 21 players. This will be the first time the public and members of the Cook Islands Netball Association will see the girls in action with team head coach […]
Netball draw
Wednesday 8 April 2009 | Published in Netball
Monday 6: The two-day Cook Islands Games netball competition starts today with Vaka Takitumu to face Aitutaki first up in the under 21 and open grade category. All games will be held at the Ngatangiia hard courts starting at 4.30pm. The competition will be played in a round robin format and the team with the […]
Special training for netball bench officials ahead of world youth champs
Wednesday 8 April 2009 | Published in Netball
Monday 6: Netball New Zealand’s Trina Sheridan and Lisa Aull will be holding a week-long netball workshop to upskill bench officials and train new ones. The bench officials workshop is not only to make sure that there will be adequate and skilled bench officials for the upcoming World Youth Netball Championships in August but to […]
3 tests for under 21 netballers
Wednesday 8 April 2009 | Published in Netball
Monday 6: Our best hopes for future netball glory – the Cook Islands under 21 training squad – will arrive on the island tomorrow for a three-test series against a local under 21 team and the Pacific Mini Games training squad. The team of 13 players and four managers will hit the courts on Tuesday […]