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The history of netball can be traced to the early development of basketball. A year after basketball was invented in 1891, the sport was modified for women to accommodate social conventions regarding their participation in sport, giving rise to women's basketball .
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 preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own.
The Western Football Netball League (WFNL) is a semi-professional Australian rules football and netball league, based in the western suburbs of Melbourne. History [ edit ]
The Geelong & District Football Netball League (GDFNL) is an Australian rules football and netball league in Victoria, being the oldest surviving competition in the region. It is one of three leagues in the Geelong area, the others being the Geelong FNL and the Bellarine FNL .
History of netball; B. Clara Gregory Baer; Martina Bergman-Österberg This page was last edited on 12 February 2024, at 05:20 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
The Netball World Youth Cup is the pinnacle of netball competition for emerging players who are under 21 years of age and the INF has held an U21 international competition every four years since 1988. The table below contains a list of these championships/cups, where they took place and how many teams competed in the event and the winners.
Throughout most of Australia's netball history, the game has largely been a participation sport; it has not managed to become a large spectator sport. [5] In 2005 and 2006, 56,100 Australians attended one to two netball matches, of these, 41,600 were women. [6] 46,200 attended three to five netball matches, with 34,400 of those spectators being ...
The Gippsland Football Netball League (GFNL) has roots dating back to the Central Gippsland Football League (CGFL) which was founded in 1909 [4] [5] with many former CGFL clubs now part of the GFNL. The CGFL morphed into the Latrobe Valley Football League in 1954.