Netball

The dust has finally settled on the 2021 Goulburn Valley League A-grade netball season and it is time to select the line-up of the News' Team of the Year. Although the season was cut short on the eve of finals there were still 11 games of polarising and exciting action.

COVID forced a face-to-face event to be canned last week, with plans for an online function. However, changing COVID restrictions means the Ovens and Murray Football Netball League's prestigious awards night will be held at major sponsor SS&A on Friday,

Competitiveness is at the forefront of Netball Tasmania's mind after the Tasmania Netball League watched another year of Northern dominance. The remainder of the competition have endured some years without success after witnessing the Northern Hawks and Cavaliers play-off in their third grand final in succession this year.

The South Warrnambool defender has re-signed at Victorian Netball League outfit Ariels and will juggle her state-level commitments with a gap year in 2022.

By his own admission, Paul Chapman took on the Kyneton coaching job "blind" to the Bendigo Football-Netball League.

Camperdown is on the hunt for a new open netball mentor but will retain outgoing coach Brooke Richardson in a playing capacity.

Excitement continues to build for Darley, with the club landing a WAFL premiership player-turned-VFL-goalkicking force for the 2022 Ballarat Football Netball League season. Nick Rodda joins the Devils after three seasons with Williamstown,

Heath Pritchard will spend another season at the helm for Melton South as the club looks to return to the top-half of the Ballarat Football Netball League ladder. The re-appointment will take Pritchard into a third year with the Panthers,

NATHAN Murphy wasn't sure anything was changing for the better minutes before the 2007 Sunraysia Football Netball League final. Nervous, after waiting for 25 years for the Mildura Demons to win

SUNRAYSIA Football Netball League (SFNL) will seek guidance from AFL Victoria about whether it will introduce mandatory vaccinations for players for its 2022 season, says SFNL president Paul Matheson.