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Issue No. 25 March 2015

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SUPPORTERS CLUB KIT We’re getting ready to support the England Team - both at home and abroad and have a new sweatshirt available to keep the Sydney “ Uniteinred ” winter chill at bay. All these will be available after Easter, so make sure you’re kitted out in “uniteinred”.

Hopefully those supporters looking for day session tickets for the World Netball Club signed up for Centre Circle or Diamonds Reserve and have secured their tickets – if not, they go on general sale at 9am (AEDT) Tuesday March 31. Go to nwc2015.com.au and click on tickets.

England Netball confirmed its 3-match home Test Series against Trinidad & Tobago in May.

Wednesday 6th May - Sports Training Village, Bath 7:15pm Friday 8th May - , London 5:30pm Monday 11th May - Echo Arena, Liverpool 7:15pm For tickets - Go to http://tickets.sky.com/Netball/International- Netball-Series

You will be able to follow all of the action including behind the scenes snap shots by joining us on the official England Netball Twitter and Facebook accounts.

The England Netball Supporters Club sends its congratulations to on her appointment as Interim Head Coach and she will lead the England Squad to the Netball World Cup in Sydney.

It was great to hear Tracey being interviewed on Radio 4 Sports slot following the announcement – Progress already! Contact details : [email protected] - 1 - Church Cottage, Tinker Pot Lane, Woodlands, Otford, Kent. TN15 6AA THUNDER 2014 SUPERLEAGUE CHAMPIONS

ENGLAND U21 SQUAD Tracey Neville and Karen Greig Coach and Assistant Coach – Congratulations to the following players selected for the England U21 Tracey’s early memories was playing for her Mum’s netball team in the Long Squad who are to tour Australia local league when she was nine – she was tall for her age and had good in July – we wish them well. ball handling skills, and played adult netball from then on. At the age of 12 she was playing Under 21 netball – played county aged 14 was LOUGHBOROUGH LIGHTNING selected for the North West team at 16 and the seniors at 19. Jaydene Robinson Rebekah Airey Tracey had 70 caps for England, competed at two Commonwealth Rebecca Tildesley Games, winning Bronze in Kuala Lumpur and two World Tamikah Campbell Championships.

HERTFORDSHIRE MAVERICKS Tracey also coaches the highly successful Manchester Thunder George Fisher SuperLeague team, currently top of the league and will be looking to Laura Morton retain their SuperLeague title at the NSL Finals at the Copper Box on Tash Pavelin the 25th April, where tickets were sold out within hours of going on Vicki Oyesola sale.

MANCHESTER THUNDER Alice Travis Gabriella Marshall Georgie Webster Rebecca Hoult SuperLeague results with 5 rounds to play

SURREY STORM SuperLeague P W L GF GA G.Av Pts Alana John Olivia Leach Manchester Thunder 9 9 0 536 386 1.39 27 Rhea Dixon 9 7 2 548 419 1.31 21 9 7 2 524 463 1.13 21 YORKSHIRE JETS Hertfordshire Mavericks 9 5 4 450 394 1.14 15 Brie Grierson 9 4 5 397 409 0.97 12 Jess Shaw Loughborough Lightning 9 2 7 450 483 93 6 Lydia Walker 9 1 8 369 518 0.71 3

TEAM SOUTH Team Northumbria 9 1 8 348 514 0.68 3 Francesca Williams

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ENGLAND UNDER 17’S NETBALL EUROPE CHAMPIONS

CONGRATULATIONS TO ENGLAND NETBALL MEMBERS SELECTED TO OFFICIATE AT THE 2015 NETBALL WORLD CUP :

UMPIRES Gary Burgess Ian Fuller Jackie Mizon Tracy Smith

UMPIRES APPOINTMENT PANEL Margaret Deighan England dominated the Netball Europe Under 17 competition, held at the Airco Arena in Hull. England were firm favourites JURY of APPEAL looking for a 17th consecutive win, and they did not Janet Wrighton disappoint!

It was a physical battle against Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales who attempted to dethrone England but the quality shown by the England girls saw them run out deserved

winners.

The victorious Netball Europe U17 England squad were:

Abigail Robson Amy Carter Ashleigh Dekker

Charlotte Curtis George Fisher Imogen Allison Laura Morton Leia Griffin Rosie Harris Sophie Drakeford-Lewis Tash Pavelin, Vicky Oyesloa (C)

Results England v Northern Ireland 102 – 11 England v Scotland 83 – 23 England v Wales 77 – 24

Placings st 1 England nd 2 Scotland rd 3 Wales th 4 Northern Ireland

In the Invitation Section of the tournament, Switzerland came out on top with Gibraltar in second place. Malta took third spot while an invited team from Dubai managed to capture three wins from three games played.

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