Australian netball great Cath Cox has no doubt that the Diamonds face their greatest challenge when they play Jamaica in the Netball World Cup semi-finals.
Australia piled up their biggest score at the 2023 Netball World Cup as they hit the century mark and completed a clean sweep of their three pool games with a thumping 101-32 win over Fiji.
As always,the Diamonds are the favourites. But what we’ll learn at this netball World Cup is how much Australia’s Super Netball competition has helped strengthen the other nations.
The netballers’ union has called on Netball Australia to end its “bad faith” negotiating ploy to refuse to name the Australian World Cup side until collective bargaining talks are concluded.
Less than a fifth of Australia’s elite coaches at the Tokyo Olympics were women. The federal government has committed $4 million to changing that.
Melbourne Vixens captain Liz Watson tips the Super Netball season,starting March 18,will be especially fierce this year.
Even an umpire blunder in the final quarter when both officiators chalked off a New Zealand goal because they didn’t see it failed to disguise how dominant the Diamonds were in winning the Quad Series for the seventh time in eight episodes.
It was the year the dress became a dirty word and a Diamonds rookie became a lightning rod for sport’s culture wars.
Can we not agree that our blokes deserve about five “one-point lucky wins” before we call it all even on the card?
Even the English were gushing over Wallam after the Diamonds shooter brushed aside weeks of scrutiny to help Australia to a 3-0 series win.
Visit Victoria is entering into a $15 million partnership with Netball Australia to run until June 2027,replacing the sponsorship the sport lost when Hancock Prospecting pulled its $15 million sponsorship deal last week.