Important Netball Information

Netball registrations: Friday 1 February, interval

Registrations took place on Friday 1 February – if your student was unable to / forgot to sign up please contact Mrs Rooney via email. Junior (Yr 9 and 10) boys are invited to trial and participate in netball for 2019.

Senior training: Sunday 10 and 17 February, 2-4pm

There will be two summer training sessions run by members of the Roncalli Netball committee and 2019 coaches. These will be held in the Roncalli College gymnasium. Please make sure your student wears appropriate sporting attire, sneakers, and brings a drink bottle.

Junior introduction training: Sunday 17 February, 1:30pm-3:30pm

The Roncalli Netball committee will be running an introduction afternoon for year 9 and 10 students who wish to be part of a netball team. This will be held at the Netball South Canterbury courts, Morgans Road. Please make sure your student wears appropriate sporting attire, sneakers, and brings a drink bottle.

Trials:

Roncalli College are running Senior (Yr 11, 12 and 13) and Junior (Yr 9 and 10) trials. Your student must be able to attend all trial dates to be selected in a team. If for some reason your student cannot attend they must contact Mrs Rooney the week prior to trials beginning. These trials are closed so that students have the best opportunity available. Please make sure your student wears appropriate sporting attire, sneakers, and brings a drink bottle.

Senior trials - 6pm-8pm

Tuesday 19 February - NSC Courts

Wednesday 20 February - College gymnasium

Thursday 21 February (6pm-7:30pm) - College gymnasium

Junior trials -

Monday 25 February - NSC Courts

Year 9 - 6pm-7pm

Year 10 - 7pm-8pm

Tuesday 26 February - NSC Courts

Year 9 - 6pm-7pm

Year 10 - 7pm-8pm

Wednesday 27 February - (Students will be invited back to attend one of these trials)

College gymnasium - 6pm-7:30pm

Parent and Student information and uniform distribution evening: Monday 18 March, 7pm

The Roncalli netball committee will be holding an information evening for all parents and students who are named in a netball team. This will be held in the College gymnasium and will be a time to meet committee members, teams and coaches, and go through key dates and information. At the conclusion all students will be allocated their uniform for the 2019 season.

AGM: Tuesday 12 March, 7pm - Seminar room (Rm17) attached to the Gymnasium

We welcome anyone who would like to be a part of the Roncalli Netball committee for 2019 to please join our existing members at this meeting.

Umpiring: Netball South Canterbury is running umpiring coaching sessions for 2019 as a new initiative to drive interest in umpiring. If any student, parent, relative or friend is interested in netball umpiring for 2019 please contact me.

Seaford exchange - Sophie Lyons

Sophie was selected to attend Seaford College on a netball scholarship for Term 1 2019. Sophie travelled over to the U.K. on New Years day where she was greeted by what she calls ‘very cold and horrible’ weather. Her team members don’t quite understand that Timaru doesn’t actually get that cold! Sophie has played quite a bit of netball so far, a tournament which was two days after arriving which she found quite difficult due to Jet Lag. Sophie is loving all the opportunities on offer and especially the intense training regime; two skills trainings, two fitness sessions, two gym sessions, one theory session and a competition game all in one week. It is however different to Roncalli where by all their training is completed during the school day which is 8:20am-5:30pm. We wish Sophie all the best for the reminder of her time in the U.K. and a safe trip home in April.