​Tim, and his party helpers, are kindly organising another social event, on 11 November, at St Chads in Headingley. These events are becoming renowned for being very competitive and or everyone having a great evening with good company and good food. It is a great way to get to know other members of your squad and of other squads! This one is Parents vs Players. You can buy tickets from Tim tim@light-fish.co.uk. 

Season is well underway now, with training intensifying, a number of junior games already played and the first senior match now played. 4 wins from 4 on Sunday!  Both U14 teams won, U16 won their second match convincingly and Northern League team won their first match. 
 
We also had a number of our athletes, coaches, and volunteers heavily involved in the Jets Farewell match on Friday, a fabulous demonstration of netball!  And a number of our athletes away on England Performance Camp in Loughborough for the weekend.
 
Big thanks to all the committee members and coaches for all their work to be ready for the season. It's worth noting that there's an incredible amount of admin work to affiliate all the players, register all the teams and then all the players, check all the fixtures (some 150 from about 6 different sources), book venues, and collect fees and forms so that everyone can play legitimately and be insured, ensure we follow all the rules, post results etc etc etc!!!!
 
In terms of club communications, we try to do a weekly update, but also please use the website, Twitter and Facebook. Here's the latest position on a few things: 

• google calendar has all the info on matches and training dates
• the club handbook should be your main source of info, on “club info” page of website 
• age group contacts are now on the website, please can all parents offer to help with match day tasks to share the load!
• squad lists are on the website on the Junior and Senior tabs
• roll of honour will be done in the next couple of weeks
• in Juniors, parent meetings will be held in next couple of weeks, where not already
• if you haven't brought fees & forms, please do so this week, otherwise not insured
• ask Louise ASAP if you need kit
• Follow Twitter, ask to join our Facebook page, please post photos, scores, match reports, articles etc, let’s be a dynamic and prolific club!
• If you're interested in helping, please visit the Course Information on the website, there's a Level 1 coming up very soon that has a few places left, ask Susie Stead for info

 
Good luck to our Netball Nights teams this week on Wednesday, to WY Senior for Saturdays clash between last season’s 1st and 2nd teams, and on Sunday we have 8 teams playing matches (all 3 x U12, both U14 teams, our U16 team and both premier and northern league matches in seniors!).

New rules for All Netball in England from September 2016

From September 2016 all domestic competition in England will be played in line with the International Netball Federation (INF) new rules.

You may have noticed these rules being implemented already in recent International Test Series and Netball Super League. Read on to find out everything you need to know before taking to the court this September!

It is important for netball to be inclusive, to encourage as many people to play as possible, and in some cases it would not be appropriate to apply the INF Rules at particular levels of competition. Therefore England Netball has also developed guidance for different levels of domestic Netball indicating permitted variances to the INF Rules.

CLICK HERE to download the Rules Summary :: CLICK HERE to go to the England Netball Rules Page