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Netball is a ball sport played on a rectangular court by two teams of seven players. The primary objective is to shoot a ball through the defender's goal ring while ...
Naismith's original "basket ball" court in Springfield, Massachusetts. Netball traces its roots to basketball. Basketball was invented in 1891 by James Naismith, a Canadian physical education instructor working in the United States, who was trying to develop an indoor sport for his students at the YMCA Training School (now Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts. [2]
The World Netball Rankings are published by the World Netball to make it possible to compare the relative strengths of internationally active national netball teams. Initially, rankings were based on the results from the World Netball Championships , and released after the conclusion of each event, every four years. [ 1 ]
A netball court is divided into thirds. Netball is played on either a hard or soft court with scoring hoops or "rings" at both ends. The court is slightly larger than a basketball court, being 30.5 metres (100 ft) long and 15.25 metres (50.0 ft) wide.
Netball in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1 P) Netball in Samoa (3 C, 2 P) ... This page was last edited on 12 February 2024, at 05:17 (UTC).
The 2024 Vitality Netball Nations Cup was an international netball series hosted and organised by England Netball. It featured England , Australia , New Zealand and Uganda in a series, played in January 2024.
Varsity Netball is a netball league featuring teams representing universities in South Africa. It was formed in 2013 . UFS Kovsies were the inaugural winners and they remain the league's most successful team, having won five titles.
The format of the competition was the same as that introduced for the 2019 Netball World Cup. Teams competed in three stages; the Preliminaries Stage One (28–30 July), Preliminaries Stage Two (31 July–3 August) and the Play-offs and Placings matches (4–6 August).