Netball Draft Central: Thank you

IT has been an action packed first year of Netball Draft Central filled with plenty of excitement and growth. The team here at Draft Central have worked exceptionally hard throughout the year to produce high quality content and cover a range of leagues across the world.

The 2019 netball calendar was full to the brim with the Netball World Cup the highlight of the year. The Silver Ferns broke their World Cup drought clenching victory over world number one Australia, while in the Suncorp Super Netball the Sunshine Coast Lightning looked to make history with a three-peat but fell short against a quality New South Wales Swift team.

We attended the Suncorp Super Netball, Australian Netball League (ANL) and M-League Premier Mixed and Men’s grand finals while we also covered the Victorian Netball League (VNL) throughout the year. We proved that we are not afraid to discuss all things netball related even diving into the intricacies of umpiring and look forward to consistently growing our name, repertoire and coverage with further coverage of the aforementioned league. In 2020 Netball Draft Central is aiming to cover the Queensland Sapphire Series in an endeavour to diversify our content and broaden our horizons.

Our coverage was not just restricted to Australia though, with the team covering the premier leagues in New Zealand and England such as the ANZ Premiership and Vitality Netball Super League (VNSL) respectively. Looking ahead to 2020 we are hoping to expand our international coverage and provide more in-depth wraps, reviews and articles along with a host more features.

We were lucky enough to interview fan favourite and cross-coder Ash Brazill, along with young guns Tara Hinchliffe and Jess Anstiss. We also managed to secure an interview with Silver Ferns and Lightning coach Noeline Taurua while Ameliaranne Ekenasio provided plenty of insight into her life both on the netball court and off-court. We also took our podcast to another level in 2019 and will be aiming to go even bigger and better next year.

In our first year, we also created two magazines one specified for the Netball World Cup and the other dedicated to SSSN. Both were filled with a wealth of content detailing player profiles, positions and team previews. Each magazine had player features retelling their journey to the top with the likes of injured Malawi and Melbourne Vixens shooter Mwai Kumwenda featuring in the World Cup magazine.

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