England have shocked Australia’s world champion netball team,beating them 61-59 in a thrilling second Test.
After a 30-year break,all I cared about was being back on the court. But against the Boyfriend Team,I found myself wanting to claim victory more than anything.
The Adelaide Thunderbirds have won back-to-back Super Netball titles and enhanced their legacy as a modern powerhouse after beating Melbourne Vixens 59-57 in a grand final thriller.
The Melbourne Vixens and Adelaide Thunderbirds will face off in the Super Netball grand final on Saturday,capping a record-breaking season – and sparking hopes for further club expansion.
A Sophie Garbin goal in the final 30 seconds of the game helped put an end to a Fever scoring spree and secure the Vixens their sixth grand final berth.
Netball is searching for its own equivalent of the AFL’s Riolis,Longs and Wanganeens. But so far,opportunities for Indigenous players to break into the sport have been limited.
Just six months after it pulled $17 million from the sport,the federal government will pump millions into the 2027 Netball World Cup in Sydney.
A multimillion-dollar loss for Super Netball,buried in financial statements lodged with the corporate regulator,comes amid a changing of the guard at the top of the cash-strapped sport.
The Fever notched six of the first seven goals of the fourth quarter to snatch the game from the third-placed Thunderbirds on Saturday night.
Sunshine Coast Lightning played keeping-off in the final 30 seconds of ordinary time,thinking they had a 71-70 lead. But replays later showed the scoreboard was wrong,and they were forced to play extra time.
Netball great Liz Ellis,an outspoken critic of Netball Australia for its handling of the series of off-court dramas that upended the sport,has been appointed to its board.