Australian Uni Games 2009
Mixed Netball growing in confidence
Thursday 10 September
Miles Rodriquez - Media Intern
The Monash mixed netball team is growing in confidence in the lead up to this year’s Australian University Games on the Gold Coast. The squad of 11 was named at the end of July and training has been growing in intensity since then.
Sophie O’Shea is the team’s manager and says that it was a struggle to pick the side.
‘We got a lot of interest at trials. This made it really difficult in choosing the side,’ she said.
Having such a large turnout in the trial period is a positive for the team, which is part of a sport which many people generally overlook when joining an AUG team.
Another great positive for the mixed team is the number of women from the Victorian Netball League (VNL), Australian Netball League (ANL) and the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) competing. Generally, players from these leagues will play for the women’s AUG team before they try out for the mixed team.
Amy Dellar, Airley Broomfield and Grace Hollands all played VNL this year and are all playing in the mixed team. Also in this year’s team are Teagan Ashmore and Louis Tsomaropoulas who both represented Victoria in this year’s nationals for women and men respectively.
There are only seven returning players from the 2008 side which competed in Melbourne. Louis is the only returning male on the team, which allows for many fresh faces this year.
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