Welcome

The Hampshire Netball Association (HNA) was established in 2007 with the merger of the previous county areas - East, Mid and North.

For more information about HNA, please visit our About Us page.

Hampshire Netball Goalden Globes 2012

This year Awards evening was held on Friday 27 April at South Winchester Golf Club.  HNA would like to thank Nutz about Netball for sponsoring the event.  Why not have a look at their website for all your netballing needs.

Congratulations to the following award winners and all the nominees.  The event, the first to be held in this format, was enjoyed by all those attending including five of Hampshire's England Netballers who presented the awards to:

Coach Award - Barbara Snow
Mary Bulloch Administrator Award - Angela Hayward
Muriel McNally Award - Alyson Bradley
Outstanding Netball Club Award - Shooting Stars
Young Netball Volunteer Award - Kelly Hayward
Hampshire Netball Long Service Award - Sally Andrews, Angie Osborne, Bill Alexander
Rose Award - Lauren Bird

County winners will automatically be put forward for South Region nomination.

l-r: Barbara Snow, Jane Jewell, Anita Farmer, Kelly Hayward, Angela Hayward, Alyson Bradley, Bill Alexander

Important Social Media advice

Netball South have released this important information about the use of social media. 
 

Important Netball South Competition Information - Junior Regional League Entry Form is now available

Please visit the Competition section - Regional Leagues - Rules and Regs for the Entry Form on the Netball South website. The Rules will be added shortly. The Entry Festival will take place on Saturday 15th September 2012 at Kingsmead Netball Centre in High Wycombe. Thereafter ALL fixtures will take place at Loddon Valley Leisure Centre in Reading. The Closing date for Entry to the Festival is 31st July 2012. The festival is limited to one team per age group per club.

All Junior Clubs can check the Netball South website for all information relating to forthcoming Competitions and Events for next season.
 

England Success for Hampshire Athletes

Following the National Screening day at Loughborough on Saturday 24 March 2012, Hampshire Netball is very pleased and proud to announce that two Hampshire-based girls have been selected into the U17s: Katie Hayward and Elsa Wakeman, both from Weston Park Blades.  Ashleigh Stock (who lives in Dorset but also plays for Weston Park Blades) was also selected into the U17s.  These girls will be joining the other National Excel athletes at the upcoming Easter Camp in Sheffield.

Also from Weston Park Blades, Hannah Joseph and Yasmin Parsons have been selected into the National U21 training squad for the World Youth Championships in Glasgow next year.

Another success is the selection of Lymington based Mia Ritchie (pictured right) who has been selected into the England Open squad to play against Barbados in the forthcoming 3 test series in April. Mia was delighted to make her debut in the 2nd test on her home court at Bath on Thursday 12 April playing the whole game at Centre.  Mia was a member of the inaugural Team South NTL team and is currently playing for Bournemouth 7's Blades in Premier 1 and Team Bath in the Fiat Netball Superleague.

Netball recognised at Hampshire IOW Sports Awards

The winners of the 2012 Hampshire and Isle of Wight Sports Awards were revealed on Wednesday evening at an exciting Olympic themed ceremony at Southampton Football Club. There was a record number of nominations again this year and an excellent standard of entries across each of the seventeen categories presented the independent panel of judges with a difficult, but welcome challenge of selecting the winners. Within Netball there were 14 nominations put forward with 5 Hampshire Netballers being shortlisted, this included:

Jade Traynor – Junior Volunteer of the Year
Julie Osborne – Participation Coach of the Year
Barbara Snow – Participation Coach of the Year
Havant White – Senior Team of the Year
Angie Osborne – Service to Sport

On the night Julie Osborne (pictured left receiving her award from Sponsor CJ Lee) was named as Participation Coach of the Year! Congratulations to Julie and well done to all those who were nominated.

England Netball seek Youth Advisors

Youth Advisors are a voluntary concept aimed at developing netball for young people by gathering as many opinions as possible from YOUNG PEOPLE! Youth Advisors are aged between 9 - 25 years old and be able to spare an hour or so every month to complete tasks. If you know someone, whether you’re a player, volunteer, coach, official, spectator or administrator we want them to be an England Netball Youth Advisor. www.englandnetball.co.uk/youth-zone/Youth_Advisors.

England Netball have a great volunteer reward scheme, open to those aged 12 - 25 years old

Young people in Hampshire and IOW can get rewarded by recording the hours that they are volunteering in the club, school, college or university environment. For just 10 hours they will receive a England Netball water bottle and certificate. For 50 hours they get a coaching clipboard and certificate, rewards will be given up to 400 hours.

Simply follow these three steps to get started:

1) Register online (follow the link below)
2) Receive log book in the post
3) Start recording volunteer hours

**receive rewards**

 www.englandnetball.co.uk/get-involved/volunteers/Pass_On_Your_Passion

Netball Development - Hampshire & IOW launch Facebook Group

For all things Netball! This page will be updated by the Hampshire and IOW Netball Development Officer to actively promote Netball opportunities, events and courses throughout Hampshire and IOW. Join today. 

Online Child Protection Training

Online child protection training is now live on the England Netball website on the safeguarding pages.

A full article regarding the training will be in the December 09 issue of your Netball Magazine.

New UKCC Coaching Courses

New UKCC courses are available on the England Netball website. Places are limited so please book your place now!

www.englandnetball.co.uk/Coaching

 Thinking of coming Back to Netball?

• Did you play netball at school?

• Do you want to play again but have forgotten how?

• Do you want to get fit and have fun?

For more information about courses and clubs in your area, contact Emily Loftus, Netball Development Officer, emily.loftus@englandnetball.co.uk.