Netball WA & West Coast Fever

Friday was Netball WA's Night of Nights as we hosted the 2024 Jill McIntosh Medal at Optus Stadium and celebrated another successful year of netball and the Gold Industry Group WA Netball League. More than 250 people enjoyed an amazing evening and we were honoured to have WA Netball icon Jill McIntosh AM there to present the medal named in her honour. Jill entertained the crowd with stories from her playing and career coaching in a great on-stage interview with our Emcee Stacey Francis-Bayman as well as discussing her recent stint as Head Coach of the Cardiff Dragons. Congratulations to Caitlyn Brown who secured a second Jill McIntosh Medal! A big thank you to our Event Partner Brightside Live and our awesome Events Team for another terrific event! READ MORE | https://lnkd.in/grCMd7m5

West Coast Fever has set a new regular season attendance record during the 2024 season as 67,080 fans filled RAC Arena resulting in a 19 per cent increase from 2023. 🏐 Our average attendance was 9,583 per game, up from 8,013 in 2023. 🏐 Broke our Home Game Record Attendance THREE times 🏐 Almost doubled our attendance number for our premiership year in 2022 READ MORE: https://lnkd.in/g3hJ-Mcm

Last Friday, Netball WA hosted the 2024 Multicultural Carnival which saw 25 divisions of school-based teams descend on Gold Netball Centre and Matthews Netball Centre. The one-day event promotes participation and engages players from a wide variety of ethnicities to foster their netball skills in a fun and encouraging environment. The Carnival is a celebration of WA’s cultural diversity and requires 5 participants with 1 or more parents born overseas or to identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander on court at all times. Well done to Netball WA's Community Netball team for their work in driving this important Carnival.

This week we celebrated season 2024 as our star Jhaniele Fowler-Nembhard secured a sixth Stacey Marinkovich Medal as the Club’s Most Valuable Player. Fowler-Nembhard polled votes in 10 out of 14 matches and won the count with 43 votes, head of Defender Sunday Aryang (29 votes) and Wing Attack Alice Teague-Neeld (28 votes). Jhaniele also took home the Players’ Player of the Year, as voted by her peers. Alice took home the People’s Choice Award as voted for by the Green Army. While Kelsey Browne was awarded the Coaches’ Award in recognition of her contribution throughout the season. Our Head of Marketing, Brand & Events Helen Harley was awarded the Club Person of the Year Award for her outstanding commitment and drive to increase the Club’s game day attendance and experience, elevating it to the best in the league. Thank you to our wonderful Emcee Stacey Francis-Bayman and the Minister for Sport & Recreation David Templeman MLA, Warren Fish from our Principal Partner Fortescue and Sharon Goddard from Gold Road Resources for assisting with the presentation of awards. It was an amazing way to cap off an amazing season!

Recently, we hosted THREE Regional Netball Championships in one weekend as netballers travelled far and wide to participate in Albany, Busselton and Geraldton for their chance to shine! More than 1,500 netballers, umpires and volunteers took part in the three championships, in another sign of the strength of our sport at the grassroots. A big thank you to the CBH Group, who were the Presenting Partner of the Great Southern and Midwest Gascoyne Regional Championships, for their continued support of regional netball. And well done to all the volunteers and Netball WA Staff who did an amazing job to organise and deliver these three championships, even battling some tough weather conditions!

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Netball WA has selected a strong group of athletes, coaches and staff to represent Western Australia at the inaugural First Nations Cup to be held in Melbourne in September. Coach Josie Janz-Dawson said: “We cannot underestimate the positive flow on effect this initiative can have in building pride and confidence in young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women." READ MORE | https://lnkd.in/gEKJQ4qG Shooting Stars - Glass Jar Australia

Netball WA is excited to announce the appointment of former West Coast Fever player Josie Janz-Dawson to coach the inaugural West Australian team to compete in the First Nations Cup in September. READ MORE | https://lnkd.in/gqtDW7wk

For the third time in 2024, we broke our Record Regular Season Home Crowd when 11,841 Green Army fans packed out RAC Arena on Saturday Night! Now we turn our attention to the Minor Semi Final against the Sunshine Coast Lightning this Sunday - our last home match for 2024.

One of Netball WA’s key activities to help celebrate NAIDOC Week is our Boorloo NAIDOC Netball Carnival presented by Fortescue. The carnival started back in 2004 and has grown from strength-to-strength each year. 2024 was no different with more than 100 teams enjoying a fun day of netball on Wednesday. Thank you to everyone who took part and made this wonderful day possible and we look forward to seeing you in 2025!