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
Netball shooting has one feature that shapes everything about the technique: there is no backboard. The ring is 380 mm across, attached to a bar
Padel is one of the fastest-growing racket sports in the world, and since it arrived in New Zealand it has moved quickly from a curiosity
Amelia Walmsley is one of the tallest and most closely watched shooters in New Zealand netball. Standing 1.92 metres, she rose from school netball at
Netball North Harbour is one of New Zealand’s largest and most established netball associations, run from the Barfoot & Thompson Netball Centre in Northcote on
Netball is one of New Zealand’s most widely played team sports, and its rules are what give the game its distinctive fast, non-contact and position-based
Few athletes have shaped a sport in two countries the way Irene van Dyk shaped netball. Born in South Africa and later embraced as one
Yvonne Willering CNZM is one of the most respected figures in New Zealand netball history, having succeeded as a world-class defender, a national head coach
The Constellation Cup is the annual netball series that pits New Zealand’s Silver Ferns against Australia’s Diamonds — for many years the two strongest teams
Auckland is where much of New Zealand’s netball talent, competition and infrastructure is concentrated. Governed within the Netball Northern zone, the region runs everything from
For most of netball’s history, a match between New Zealand’s Silver Ferns and England was rarely a fair fight — the Ferns usually won, and