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News Update #12

10/12/2018

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Almost ready for a netball break! But not quite. A busy and exciting week!

Our young Netball Nights squad had a super win on Wednesday, well done! Our WY Seniors had a good win on Saturday as well, against Bradford Premier. This puts us second in that league, not bad, ready for a strong finish for the second half of the season! And well done to our U14s travelling to a friendly today and coming away with two wins.

This week’s highlight was that three of our U12s travelled to Manchester for the regional round of a new u12 competition at the Velodrome. What superb experience and how well did these youngsters perform! All squads played well and won games and qualified for the quarter finals, including those playing up a year from our Tuesday night group! Our As made the semis and came fourth, which is great, and means they qualify for the National Finals! Well done to athletes and coaches, thanks to coaches and helpers and good luck at the next stage.

Two tough matches in Seniors today, both featuring very young and relatively inexperienced squads across Northern and Premier1. As Anna Carter said after today’s games: “rebuilding and developing the right culture at Seniors will take time, the Club is proud of the way the athletes stepped up today. Unfortunately, losing sometimes is part of the learning and development process! We can look to secure victory in the return fixtures!"

Northern league lost away to a very experienced Swifts side 58-50, so not far off, some debuts and plenty of new combinations, well done Jan! Premier1 lost by 10 away to a very experienced Grangetown side, with some debuts and again new combinations to get used to, well done Francine. Both matches were good and competitive with some awesome passages of play and promising signs. We are second in Northern league at this midpoint stage of the season. In prem, we are second from bottom with a game in hand and quite a few points scored from closer matches, so work to do and time to do it.

Lots of our players appeared in the Rhinos event this weekend, with matches for U17 and U19 against London Pulse and matchplay with the two Rhinos U15 Academies. Good luck to those in the U19 NPL opening weekend next weekend in Nottingham.

Junior matches are done for the year, as are most seniors too, so you’ll be pleased to know that there will be fewer emails this week from your respective administrators! There is just a prem match, where our squad travel to play New Cambell in Dagenham. Safe trip and good luck, always a tough venue!
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News Update #11

3/12/2018

 
In a week of fixtures for the National team against Uganda, those watching closely will have seen how sticking to a game plan, changing tactics to beat the opposition and true teamwork gets results. The Roses pushed on from a four goal win in the first match to a storming 66-37 exhibition of talent, with depth in the squad, in the third test proves why they are serious contenders for the World Cup in Liverpool next year. This week saw lots of our players in a coaching session with Tamsin Greenway, which was great experience as a player, but also brilliant for our coaches to learn from her too. 

CONGRATULATIONS 
Well what a weekend both our U14s and U16s have qualified for the Regional round of Nationals. Congratulations to all those involved players, coaches, parents and supporters. The teams will play in the Regional games against two teams from South Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, Humberside and two from play-off matches in a mini tournament next weekend so ten teams in all. The winners and runners up of the Regional League qualify to play in the National finals. This is our #RoadToNationals which is amazing experience for those who are lucky enough to make it. The top 18 teams from across England play all weekend in a clever formula that sees every team gain a placing. Our best ever result is a bronze, two years ago, let’s see if this talented team can go better and make the final! 

PERFORMANCE
During the week our young netball Nights team lost to Shooting Winos in a hard fought game with an eventual score of 36-19 more than half points though girls so well done. Also mid-week the U10s pitched up in a friendly against an U12 Farsley at this age two years is a massive advantage. Well done girls for perseverance, a 13-9 loss is very respectable and a brilliant fun photo too.


Today the U14A team beat Huddersfield Giants 44-16 but the U14B lost 25-15 to a strong YMCA there was lots of learning ready for their next round of West Yorkshire matches after Christmas. The U16A had a lot of fun this morning a special visitor, a C totally out of position played GA, an amazing score of 63-9 and to top it off buns to celebrate. The U16B were just as awesome on court winning 38-21 but not quite so giddy. In the U12s the A’s won an unbelievable 64-1 v Yorkshire Terriers (a record victory!), what are you feeding those girls? The Bs won in a closely contested match against Wakefield Wildcats 17-15.

In seniors no match for our Regional team this week, but Northern had a tough one against Oaksway, coming away with the win 55-41. A difficult match for the Prem girls against Turnford resulted in a nail biting loss 58-60. The seniors also need to up their game to win the fun photo competition the juniors are definitely smashing this competition so far. Yesterday, our WY Seniors lost to a strong Morrisons, with a number of juniors playing into seniors, so great learning! 

WELL DONE
Congratulations to Laura Kelly and Claudia Stead for being selected to the Great Britain Colleges squad last week.


LOOKING AHEAD
Most junior games have finished now, but seniors continue, with the last Prem match on 16th Dec! NPL matches start soon and there is lots of Rhinos activity in the next couple of weeks.

INJURIES
Good to see some of our players returning from injury, but some players still out, so keep taking care and following instructions and stay in touch. Your netball family want to provide as much support to you as possible.
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And finally, don't forget to bring goodies for Hannah Beckley to collect for Charity.
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