Bromsgrove School’s first team and its U14s have qualified for the National Netball Finals. The national schools’ competition, in association with the British Army, is the biggest competition in the netball calendar. Earlier in the week, the School hosted the Regional Netball Finals where the U14, U16 and U19 teams competed representing Worcestershire. The U16 team competed well in a hard...
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Bromsgrove School’s 1st netball team have won a bronze medal in the English Schools’ Netball Finals and are now 3rd in the country. The top eighteen schools in the country contested the titles on Saturday 16th March at Stanborough School. With winds reaching up to 50mph on the day, conditions proved challenging, but the U19 Bromsgrove team came top in their eight games. In the semi-final,...
Commonwealth gold-medallist Eboni Beckford-Chambers recently visited Taunton School to run a coaching session for aspiring players. Under the organisation of JR Sports Coaching, students at the school and the wider community had three hours of coaching consisting of warm-up drills, attacking drills, defensive drills and gameplay. Following this, pupils had a Q&A session with Eboni in which she...
A pupil from Felsted School has been selected for the Surrey Storm National Performance League (NPL) U19 team. Lydia Rowlands, 18, will play in the centre position alongside and against the best players in her age category. She joined the school in 2016 as a sports scholar and feels that the coaches and program at Felsted, led by benecoMavericks player Lindsay Keable, gave her confidence to trial for...
A Bishop’s Stortford College pupil has been impressing coaches as part of the London Pulse U17 netball squad. Alex Povey was selected to join the team in November last year after she was put forward by her former team, Crosskeys Club. Following an intense trial, she was chosen as one of 20 players to join up with the squad and has gone from strength to strength, attending weekly training sessions...