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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 ]
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 ...
Tharjini Sivalingam (born 30 December 1978) is a former Sri Lankan veteran netball player and former skipper of the Sri Lankan national netball team. [1] With her staggering height of 210 cm or 6 ft 10.5in, [2] she has been recognized as one of the most successful shooters of all time and often regarded as the tallest netball player ever.
Rhonda made her World Cup debut for Trinidad and Tobago as a 21 year old at the 1999 World Netball Championships, where the team finished at ninth position. She also represented Trinidad and Tobago at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. [9] In addition to netball, she is a basketball player who plays in the guard position. [10] [11]
Chelsea Lewis (born 24 November 1993) is a Wales netball international. She represented Wales at the 2011 and 2015 Netball World Cups and at the 2014 and 2018 Commonwealth Games. She was also a member of the Wales teams that won the 2010 Netball Singapore Nations Cup and the 2013 and 2014 European Netball Championships.
The first codified rules of Bergman-Österberg's new sport, netball, were then published in 1901. By 1960, international playing rules had been standardised for the game, and the International Federation of Netball and Women's Basketball, later renamed World Netball, was formed to be the sport's international governing body.
Layla Guscoth (born 2 March 1992) is an England netball international.She was a member of the England squad that won a bronze medal at the 2019 Netball World Cup.At club level, Guscoth has played for Loughborough Lightning, Hertfordshire Mavericks and Team Bath in the Netball Superleague and for Adelaide Thunderbirds in Suncorp Super Netball.
Gretel has been named in the Super Netball Team of the Year three times, in 2018, 2019 and the 2022. In the latter year she was also awarded the Liz Ellis Diamond , the most prestigious annual award in Australian netball, given to the player judged the best in both domestic and international netball throughout the calendar year. [ 6 ]