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The England President, International Netball Federation 4 | netball.org netball.org | 5 World Youth Championships 2013 World Youth Netball Championships Thursday 22 to Saturday 31 August 2013 Netball's Youth Take The Emirates Arena, Glasgow, Scotland CENTRE STAGE This August, over 200 promising young netballers from all corners of the world will come together in Scotland for the 2013 World Youth Netball Championships. The 10-day event involves 20 teams, with match-ups set to include netballing giants Australia against newcomers Israel, and the netball-mad nation of New Zealand against the tiny Atlantic island of Bermuda. What this means to The city of Glasgow is preparing to stage an event that captures international netball... the attention of netballers in Scotland and around the world. The tournament will be the first world netball event to be staged in It’s been 25 years since the first World Youth Netball Championships took place in Canberra, Scotland since the 1987 World Championships, and will take place Australia. Since then, the tournament has become a firm fixture in the international less than a year before the sport takes centre stage at the Glasgow calendar, and the next generation of global netball elite has been showcased in Fiji, Canada, 2014 Commonwealth Games. One of the International Netball Wales, the USA, and the Cook Islands. As well as thrilling crowds in emerging netball Federation’s flagship events, WYNC 2013 will be hosted by Glasgow nations, many of the tournament’s alumni have gone on to forge outstanding international Life and Netball Scotland, supported by EventScotland, and is part of careers. This year’s talent promises to be no less exciting, with a number of players already UK Sport’s £27 million Gold Event Series. making their mark at the senior level. Watch out for... The President of the International Netball Federation, Molly Rhone, is Kimberley Ravaillion Kayla Cullen understandably keen to convey the importance of the tournament for Australia Aged 20 C/WD New Zealand Aged 21 C/WD world netball... Kimberley Ravaillion has had a breakthrough 2013 is Kayla Cullen’s second World Youth season in the last 12 months. Following an Championships. In 2009, she was the youngest “This event, to be held in Glasgow’s magnificent outstanding 2012 at the Australian Institute of in a silver medal-winning New Zealand side, new Emirates Arena, draws together young Sport, the dynamic midcourter put in a strong playing as a shooter. Since then, Cullen has performance at the World Netball Series, switched circles, and won 12 caps for the netballers from a diversity of backgrounds and before being called into the Australian team Silver Ferns as a hugely-promising defender. In cultures, and promises to be a truly superb to play England in January.