Training and pre-season preparations.

This week is the last week of training before the school holidays! We’re crossing our fingers that the sun stays out so we can train! Either way, it is looking like a chilly evening, so make sure you rug up! If there are any wet weather updates, keep your eyes peeled to the blog in the late afternoon.

Uniforms: Please ensure that if you haven’t already purchased a uniform, you do so this week at training. Someone will be available to help with uniforms from the start of training. It’s crucial that we get these organised now so that we can ensure availability for the season.

Team names: As you may have heard by now, we have new team names for the club for the season. For our NetSetGoers and Juniors, your team names are names of Australian Ants. For our Inters, Cadets and Seniors your team names are named after trig points in the ACT. Maybe teams could schedule a team hike up the mountain your team is named after during the holidays (though we note that some of the trigs are easier to access than others…).

New rules: For 2024, World Netball has introduced some new rules. We will run an update session for our coaches and umpires after the school holidays, but you can access the new rules here if you’re interested. If you do have a look ahead of time, please note that we don’t think SCNA will be introducing the tactical changes this season.

Interested in coaching? We have a number of senior teams without coaches, we’d love to hear from you if you are interested! If you cannot commit to both Wednesdays and Saturdays, we have teams that would benefit from support at training, as well as teams that would benefit from some game-day management. If you’re playing seniors and would consider helping another team out on a Saturday, please let us know!

Interested in umpiring? We’d also love to hear from any interested umpires, whether you have experience or not! We’d love to help support your skill development and best of all, pay you for your time!

We need team managers – there are a few teams we haven’t heard from yet, and teams will need a manager to be able to take the court. Please volunteer if you haven’t already to help make game days smoother for our coaches and players.