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Initially called the International Netball Federation (INF), the organization was later renamed World Netball. The second half of the 20th century saw international competition expand, with the sport's premier international competition, the INF Netball World Cup, starting in 1963. Netball has also been contested at the Commonwealth Games since ...
World Netball, previously known as the International Netball Federation and the International Federation of Netball Associations, is the worldwide governing body for Netball. The INF was created in 1960 [1] and is responsible for world rankings, maintaining the rules for netball and organising the Netball World Cup and Netball at the ...
Efforts began in 1957 to standardise netball rules globally: by 1960 international playing rules had been standardised, and the International Federation of Netball and Women's Basketball, later the International Netball Federation (INF), was formed to administer the sport worldwide. [13]
The Netball World Cup is a quadrennial international netball world championship organised by World Netball, inaugurated in 1963.Since its inception the competition has been dominated primarily by the Australia national netball team and the New Zealand national netball team, Trinidad and Tobago is the only other team to have won a title (a three-way tie in the 1979 championship).
Currently, the International Federation of Netball Associations only recognises women's netball. [4] The 2011 International Challenge Men's and Mixed Netball Tournament was run by the Western Australian Men's and Mixed Netball Association (WAMMNA). [6] It is the major international competition for men's and mixed gendered national netball teams ...
The following is a list of notable England netball international players who have represented the national team in international tournaments such as the Netball World Cup, the Commonwealth Games, World Games, the Netball Quad Series, the Taini Jamison Trophy the Fast5 Netball World Series and the European Netball Championship and in other senior test matches.
The Trinidad and Tobago national netball team, known as the Calypso Girls, represent Trinidad and Tobago in international netball. The Caribbean team competed at the first World Netball Championships in 1963, and are the only nation outside of Australia and New Zealand to have won a World Championship (in 1979). Throughout the mid-1970s and ...
Trinidad Netball was influenced greatly by Lystra Lewis, her career started as a youth in high school. Miss Lewis played for Tranquility secondary school in netball and later played club netball for Malvern sports club from 1940 to mid-1950s. Her love for the sport was the basis for the start of the coaching career.