| Nickname: | Kana |
| Place of Birth: | North Shore |
| Year of Birth: | 1994 |
| Height: | 173cm |
| Playing Positions/Role: | WA, C, WD |
| Previous Positions: | GD |
| Netball Career Highlights: | Making NZ U-21 team for Youth World Cup |
| Age Started Playing: | 8 |
| Best thing about playing Netball: | Satisfaction you get when your hard work pays off |
| Previous National Squads: | New Zealand Secondary Schools, NZ U-21 team |
| Other interests: | Hanging out with friends |
| Hobbies/Passtimes: | Reading athletes auto-biographies, beach |
| Role Models/Heroes: | Mum a.k.a Superwoman |
| Nickname: | Liz |
| Place of Birth: | Auckland, NZ |
| Year of Birth: | 26th April, 1995 |
| Height: | 1.8m |
| Playing Positions/Role: | WD, GD, GK |
| Previous Positions: | GA, GS |
| Netball Career Highlights: | |
| Age Started Playing: | 8 years old |
| Best thing about playing Netball: | Aggressiveness of players and the game itself |
| Previous National Squads: | Pacific Rim, Samoa u21s |
| Other interests: | Playing Tag football during off season for netball! |
| Hobbies/Passtimes: | Shopping for shoes! |
| Role Models/Heroes: | Family- the reason to why I am where I am today |
| Nickname: | CHAR, MAINEY, PEANUT (DON'T ASK) |
| Place of Birth: | Dargaville, Northland |
| Year of Birth: | 1990 |
| Height: | 182cm |
| Playing Positions/Role: | Defence, GD,WD,GK |
| Previous Positions: | Believe it or not.. Centre until I grew taller then the average person and went to defence. |
| Netball Career Highlights: | Playing on Saturday mornings at Whangarei Netball Centre playing for my little primary school team alongside my two big brothers (not kidding), Representing the far North in age group and national champs Netball North teams. Oh and definitely making the Northern under 23s |
| Age Started Playing: | Probably about 7 years old when I started playing, about the time I had to stop playing rugby |
| Best thing about playing Netball: | I would say the best thing about playing netball is the people I have met, the opportunities and the travel (I hadn’t been on an plane until I flew to Invercargil for age group champs) |
| Previous National Squads: | None |
| Other interests: | Family (proud Aunty of two), visiting the family farm in Whangarei, friends, my job, taking my puppy to the beach |
| Hobbies/Passtimes: | Well I'm not the collecting type apart from the odd pretty shell at the beach? |
| Role Models/Heroes: | Firstly, my parents they are the hardest working people I know, in terms of netball and work three people come to mind my high school netball coach Eve Barton she was a major influence and support early on, the last two are believe it or not both the Northern under 23 coaches Helene Wilson and Jenny May Coffin. |
| Nickname: | Min, Minnie |
| Place of Birth: | Auckland |
| Year of Birth: | 1993 |
| Height: | 182cm |
| Playing Positions/Role: | GA, GS, GK |
| Previous Positions: | |
| Netball Career Highlights: | Counties Manukau NZC Team, Mystics Training Squad 2011-12 |
| Age Started Playing: | 12 years old |
| Best thing about playing Netball: | Meeting new people and playing the sport I love and travelling |
| Previous National Squads: | |
| Other interests: | Hanging out with friends, coaching AFL, music |
| Hobbies/Passtimes: | Volleyball, Basketball, Touch |
| Role Models/Heroes: | Katrina Grant, Kirsten Hurley, my parents |
| Nickname: | Carlz, Car, Carlito |
| Place of Birth: | South Africa, Johannesburg |
| Year of Birth: | 19/09/1991 |
| Height: | 185cm |
| Playing Positions/Role: | GA/GS |
| Previous Positions: | GA/GS/WA |
| Netball Career Highlights: | Making the NZSS & NZu21 squads |
| Age Started Playing: | 8 years old |
| Best thing about playing Netball: | Being surrounded by passionate, hard-working people; getting to travel; playing an awesome game; winning; being part of something bigger than myself :) |
| Previous National Squads: | NZ u/21, NZSS, South Africa u/17 |
| Other interests: | Web Design, Engineering, Indoor Volleyball, Beach Volleyball, Skulling/Rowing, Recruitment, Graphics Design |
| Hobbies/Passtimes: | Electronics, crafts, reading, singing&playing guitar, kayaking, shopping, you-tubing, drawing/painting, nannying :) |
| Role Models/Heroes: | Netball-wise: Irene van Dyk & Sharelle McMahon |
Sunday 30th April
Year 3 - 8
Registration and information is online at www.netballnorthharbour.co.nz
Please note: Our monthly newsletters will be a quick overview of the months activity, for the complete extended version (stats, participation figures, more detailed information) we will load onto our new Netball Northern Zone website which is due to go live early next week. I will send out a separate email with a link and more details.
Undertaking meetings with key players' managers
Reviewing coaching structure and set up with HC and HPM
The Netball New Zealand (NNZ) U23 competition is an exciting new opportunity for our performance athletes with the aim of progressing athletes into the ANZ Championship and the NNZ High Performance Programme. This Zone based competition is now an integral part of NNZ's High Performance Pathway, therefore having a very important role to play in transitioning performance athletes into high performing athletes.
The objective by NNZ in establishing this new U23 competition is to provide a competition that bridges the gap between club / age group / secondary school level netball and leads performance athletes, and performance coaches, umpires and other officials towards the ANZ Championship.
The philosophy of the Netball Northern Zone U23 programme is to identify and develop performance athletes who have the potential to succeed in high performance netball and to ensure that these athletes are equipped with the all-round skills that will enable them to transition successfully.