PREVIEW | VNL 2024 – New season, new faces, same dream
IT is the most exciting day in the Victorian State netball calendar – the opening round of the Victorian Netball League (VNL) season. In perhaps a case of déjà vu, it is once again the City West Falcons who are the ones to beat in 2024 after defending their title last season. However, there are […]
Good old Collingwood for one more time
COLLINGWOOD has ended its netball program on a huge high, defeating the highly touted Swifts Academy to win the 2023 Australian Netball Championships. The game started tight in Collingwood’s favour, but the Swifts were able to flip the script in the second and third term to take a six goal lead into the final change. […]
Group games come to an end, finals to come
YESTERDAY saw the final round of group games at the 2023 Australian Netball Championships, with some tight results and tough fights to the finish. West Coast Fever Reserves (63) defeated Vic Fury (57) The Fever Reserves have finished top of the table in Pool B after a hard fought win over the Vic Fury. It […]
Pecking order starts to settle at ANC
AS the competition moves to the halfway mark in the 2023 Australian Netball Championships, the pecking order of team strength starts to become more and more apparent. GIANTS Academy (66) defeated Capital Darters (47) The GIANTS picked up their first win of this year’s competition with a big win over the Darters. Although it was […]
Considerate Caris consolidates sporting pursuits
MELBOURNE Vixens Training Partner and Melbourne Uni defender Maggie Caris has sure had a busy life over the past few years. Not only is she a rising force in the netball world, but until recently was also pursuing an AFL Women’s career with the Melbourne Demons. Caris said that it was really tough to balance […]
Margins vary in mixed night of VNL action
LAST night’s results in the Victorian Netball League were either one of two options – either an absolute thrashing or a tight nail-biter. The tightest of the nail-biters was between the Geelong Cougars and Melbourne Uni Lightning, with the Cougars prevailing by a single goal in a match full of momentum swings. Geelong raced out […]
Australian 21 & Under squad announced
NETBALL Australia has announced its 21 & Under squad for the remainder of the 2022 season, with the 14 selected athletes set to take part in a four-day training camp at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) next month. The squad was chosen off the back of the recently completed Australian Netball Championships (ANC) which […]
2022 ANC daily wrap: Day 3
IT was a great day for the undefeated sides at the 2022 Australian Netball Championships (ANC) as the West Coast Fever, Collingwood Magpies and Victoria Fury all posted wins. In the first match, Southern Force got on the board moving to 1-1 by defeating GIANTS Netball, also leaving the orange team at 1-1. SOUTHERN FORCE […]
Cougars bounce back to move through to GF
IT is the Geelong Cougars who will face the City West Falcons in next weekend’s VNL Grand Final, after they defeated Melbourne Uni 57 to 39 in the Preliminary Final. Both teams traded blows in the opening few minutes, and the pressure and intensity as was up as many would have expected. However, it was […]
One last VNL Grand Finalist to be decided
IT is Preliminary Final Day in the Victorian Netball League (VNL), and all eyes will be on the State Netball and Hockey Centre as the Geelong Cougars tale on Melbourne University. It is certainly not the preliminary final fans would have expected, but it is the one they are going to get. Despite going into […]
