
New Zealand’s Competitive Spirit: Netball and a Nation That Plays to Win
New Zealanders are known worldwide for their love of the outdoors and their easy friendliness — and for a fierce will to win that turns

New Zealanders are known worldwide for their love of the outdoors and their easy friendliness — and for a fierce will to win that turns

New Zealand’s elite domestic netball competition, the ANZ Premiership, is one of the country’s most-watched women’s sporting leagues. Whether you are a lifelong supporter or

Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, sits at the south-western tip of the North Island between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. For a compact

Irene van Dyk is a retired goal shooter who became the most-capped international in the history of netball, playing a record 217 Test matches across

Netball is a fast, seven-a-side team sport built around passing, movement and accurate shooting. It is played by millions of people across more than 80

Netball has been played in Rotorua since the 1930s, and the city is home to what is widely described as New Zealand’s largest club netball

Netball asks for less gear than almost any comparable team sport. A marked court, two padded goalposts, one match ball and a set of positional

A netball bib has one job: to tell players, umpires and spectators which of the seven positions a player is filling, and therefore which parts

A full-size netball court is 30.5 metres long and 15.25 metres wide, divided into three equal thirds with a semi-circular goal circle at each end.

Netball is one of the busiest winter sports in the South Canterbury district, and Netball South Canterbury is the regional body that keeps it running.

Kitting out a squad with netball uniforms is one of the first jobs on any New Zealand club or school’s pre-season list, and it involves

Picking a team name is one of the first jobs a new netball squad tackles, whether you are entering an elite winter club grade, a

Netball across the Waimakariri and Hurunui districts is run by a single organisation and played at two main venues in Rangiora. For families and new

Coaching netball to beginners and children comes down to two priorities: keep everyone moving, and teach the handful of rules that make netball different from

Ask who invented netball and you will not get one tidy answer the way you would for basketball. There is no single founder and no

Netball is one of Canterbury’s biggest winter sports, played by thousands of women, men and children from the heart of Christchurch to the paddocks of

Netball is the most-played women’s sport in New Zealand, yet many people who played it at school never learned where the game came from or

Netball and basketball share an ancestor and an identical ring height. Almost everything else about the two games is different. This guide sets those differences