Zones
The number of students playing netball at secondary school level is on the rise in the Netball Central Zone.
Highlighting its success in developing and producing young talent, Netball Central has continued to lead the way with a strong representation of those aspiring to gain selection in the 2025 NZ Secondary Schools (NZSS) team.
Netball Northern is delighted to announce the re-signing of 2024 Northern Marvels Coaches, Melissa Bessell and Ripeka Pirie for the 2025 season, albeit with a slight twist.
The Mainland National Netball League (NNL) squad has been officially announced.
Competitions are well underway in all of our Centres and it has been a fantastic start to the netball season, there is some great netball on display across all of the age groups from FutureFERNS, through to premier netball.
Exciting umpire news from our zone, with SASHA MCLEOD (Wakatipu) achieving the very prestigious International Umpire Award (IUA), successfully endorsed by World Netball during ANZ Premiership in April 2023.
NetballSmart engagement across the zone remains at an all-time high with our NetballSmart Development Officer, Gwen, delivering 20 workshops alone across the month of May.
Netball South have been supporting netball centres throughout our zone to deliver U14, U16 and U18 development sessions to help prepare players for their centre representative trials.