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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] Netball receives full media coverage on television, radio and in newspapers but does not get as much coverage as less successful team sports such as football and cricket . [ 2 ]
In 2013, Netball Jamaica became the trading name for The Netball Foundation of Jamaica, a registered company and an approved charitable organisation. This new entity superseded the Jamaica Netball Association (JNA), which was founded in 1958, and brings with it fundamental changes to how the sport is administered going forward. [ 6 ]
The Jamaica national netball team, known as the Sunshine Girls, have participated in the Netball World Championships every year since their inception in 1963, finishing third in 1991, 2003 and 2007, and in the Commonwealth Games, earning the bronze medal in 2002, 2014 and 2018, followed by a silver in 2022.
Jhaniele Fowler scored 56 goals as Jamaica came from behind to win the match and level the series. [5] After one quarter, England were ahead 18–12, though Jamaica overturned the deficit and led 31–27 at half time. Jamaica led by 10 goals at one point, but this was reduced to 48–41 after three quarters, for a final score of 61–58. [6]
The Berger Elite League is the premier domestic netball league in Jamaica.Inaugurated in 2013, the league is contested by 6 teams (two under 21 teams were added in 2017 in preparation for the 2017 Netball World Youth Cup).
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Elaine Lamour Davis (born 21 September 1976) is a Jamaican international netball player. Fresh out of high school, she got her baptism in international sports when she was selected as a member of the national senior team, the Sunshine Girls, for the ninth World Netball Championships held in Birmingham, England in 1995.
Naismith's original "basket ball" court in Springfield, Massachusetts. Netball traces its roots to basketball. Basketball was invented in 1891 by James Naismith, a Canadian physical education instructor working in the United States, who was trying to develop an indoor sport for his students at the YMCA Training School (now Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts. [2]