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The Jamaica national netball team, commonly known as the Sunshine Girls, represent Jamaica in international netball competitions. Netball is the number one women's sport and the number one team sport in Jamaica, and the majority of the schools in Jamaica participate. [1]
Sasher-Gaye Henry (born 9 November 1979 in Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica) [1] is a Jamaican former international netball player and current co-coach of the Jamaica national netball team, the Sunshine Girls. Henry won a bronze medal in netball at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. [1]
Nicole Alicia Aiken-Pinnock (née Aiken; born 11 December 1985) is a Jamaican netball player. Pinnock started playing international representative netball as early as 2004, [1] [2] although she made her senior debut in the Jamaica national team, the Sunshine Girls, at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. [3]
Netball Jamaica is the peak governing body for the sport of netball in Jamaica. The organisation's stated objectives for Jamaica netball are to achieve national and international success in competition, encourage greater participation and spectator involvement, and ensure excellence in all spheres of the sport.
She captained the Sunshine Girls at the Netball World Cups in 2019 [12] in England and 2023 in South Africa. In 2023 Fowler-Nembhard captained Jamaica to win Bronze at the World Cup in South Africa. [13] She scored 302/310 (97.4%) goals during the tournament [14] and was the only Jamaican named in the World Cup team of the Tournament. [15]
As with the boys district tournament, all five Class 4A MCC teams qualify for the District 8 tournament with the Greater Spokane League. This tournament starts Thursday, Feb. 8, at various sites.
Williams is a member of the Jamaica national netball team, the Sunshine Girls, and primarily plays at WD, GD and GK. [1] She debuted for the Sunshine Girls in 2012 against South Africa, [2] and was part of the teams that won bronze at the 2014 and 2018 Commonwealth Games, and that placed fourth at the 2015 Netball World Cup. [1]
Jamaica's four-man bobsled team will be competing in this year's Winter Olympics for the first time in 24 years. Like the country's 1988 team that inspired the film "Cool Runnings," this team had ...