Elite Netball News
State School Girls Netball
Olivia Williams is a Year 9 Netball Academy student at Belridge Secondary College. Earlier this year she was selected in the under 15’s state schoolgirls Netball team for Western Australia (WA). Olivia trained for approximately 8-10 weeks with this team and then travelled to Canberra to compete in the national competition.
This competition ran over a week beginning Monday 25th July to Friday 29th July. Western Australia started extremely well with a win against Victoria to kick off the week. This game gave the girls great confidence heading into the rest of the week. WA then played another 4 games against other states and territories before heading into the finals.
Queensland finished on top of the ladder winning all games comfortably. WA finished second and played against NSW in the semi-final. WA won this game by 2 points to secure a place in the grand final.
The final day of competition saw the WA team head into the grand final against Queensland. They narrowly defeated this team to take home the win by 1 point.
Western Australia has not won this competition since 1988, which is 34 years since it’s been in WA! Belridge SC has been lucky enough to have the ‘Howie’ Cup (the trophy for winning) for a week because Olivia was part of this team. The cup will then be off to another team member for another week.
A huge congratulations to Olivia and the Western Australian under 15’s team on this achievement.
Miss Hunt
Health & Physical Education Teacher
