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We’re looking forward to seeing you all again for week two of grading!

We are expecting a hot day, and will keep an eye on the temperature as the day progresses. Please make sure to bring along plenty of sunscreen, as well as hats and cold water. We will likely shorten the time out on court, and do what we can to get everyone some shade.

Trial times

1-2pm Juniors (year 5-6)

2-3pm Inters (year 7-8)

3-4pm Cadets (year 9-10)

4-5pm Seniors (year 11-12 and 18+) 

Bullants registrations close at 11.55 tonight! Click here to register.  We are so excited for our 2025 winter teams to start forming and training. 

Trials for teams begin this weekend on 22 February at Arawang Netball Association courts in Stirling.  The trials continue on 1 March and 15 March. 

Trial times

1-2pm Juniors (year 5-6)

2-3pm Inters (year 7-8)

3-4pm Cadets (year 9-10)

4-5pm Seniors (year 11-12 and 18+) 

Please arrive 10-15 mins prior to the trial time to check in and get your trial number added. Please arrive ready to play: in appropriate gear with your netball shoes, nails cut and no jewellery. It’s going to be hot, so please bring plenty of sunscreen and a full drink bottle.

Thanks to all those families who have already advised that they can’t attend a particular trial.  It really helps us plan the trials, so if you haven’t already let us know, please send us an email.

We look forward to seeing you all on Saturday!

We’re so excited to see how many of you have already registered for the year! We’re keen to see lots more registrations between now and Thursday when registrations close. Please click here to register.

Grading: Our first week of grading is this Saturday the 22nd of February, and this will continue on the 1st of March and 15th of March.
As a reminder, this will be held at Arawang Netball Courts in Stirling and NOT at SCNA.

Times are as follows:
Juniors 1-2pm
Inters 2-3pm
Cadets 3-4pm
Seniors 4-5pm

We encourage players to attend each of the trials to ensure we can place you in the most appropriate team. If there is a grading session you cannot make please let us know by sending us an email.

NetSetGo: For our lovely NetSetGoers, we’ll let you know as soon as we can when we’ll get started, but this will likely be a couple more weeks!

Uniforms: We will have uniforms available to try-on at grading so please chat to us if you need any new uniform pieces for the year.

Please reach out with any questions or issues with registration. We’re looking forward to seeing you all on Saturday!

We’re super excited to welcome you all back to netball for 2025!

Registrations are now open! Click here to be taken to the page to register.

Importantly though, there are a few differences to our preseason this year, that we want to walk you through.

Courts: As you’re likely aware, our court surfaces are in the process of being upgraded. This project is taking longer than anticipated and we are not expecting the courts to be available to us until just before the season commences. As a result, we have had to carefully consider our grading and training processes. This leads us to point two…

Grading: Grading will be held on a Saturday afternoon at the Arawang Netball Association courts (Stirling) from Saturday 22^nd February. Watch this space for confirmation of times for each age group (Juniors through to Seniors). With half the courts in Canberra being renovated currently, there is a huge demand for court time, so we’ve chosen the option that will hopefully minimise the interruption to everyone’s schedules.

We will proceed with three weeks of grading:

·       Saturday, 22 February

·       Saturday, 1 March

·       Saturday 15 March

We will share a survey in the coming weeks with those registered to ensure we can capture when players can/can’t attend.

Training: It is likely that training will also take place on a Saturday afternoon at the Arawang courts from Saturday 22 March (once grading is completed), but we will confirm this in the weeks ahead. For our NetSetGo teams (Years 2-4) who aren’t graded, training will likely begin on 22 March.

Please note, as soon as we have our new courts back, we will swing back to training on Wednesday nights at SCNA!

Fees: Our fees are made up of four components – Netball Australia, Netball ACT fees, SCNA fees, and Bullants fees. The Bullants component covers elements such as umpires, playing equipment, coaching gifts and club events. For the last couple of years, Bullants has been able to absorb some of the increase in Netball ACT/SCNA fees due to a healthy bank balance. However, this year, with Netball ACT increasing its fees and us reaching a point where further cost absorption is not viable, we do need to increase our fees to maintain our sustainability. This will see fees rise by up to $30 for the season. Please note that PlayHQ also charges a system fee of roughly $5 on top of the fees noted in the table below.

We know this may be difficult for some in our community. PlayHQ has a payment plan system, which may help to spread the cost for families. Or, we also encourage you to email us at bullantsnetball@gmail.com before registering if you have any concerns/questions. 

Uniforms: Please hang tight on uniforms for now, we will let you know when we’re able to take orders, but this will likely be at grading/training so that you have the opportunity to try on your new pieces! 

Fitness: In 2024, we ran a trial specialised fitness and conditioning program for our inters/ cadets/ seniors players to boost our conditioning and create opportunities to get to know players across the club. The program was very successful – we had great numbers involved and received positive feedback. 

As a result, we’re looking at ways we can roll out the program in a sustainable way. To inform our thinking, we’d welcome the views of our inters/cadets/seniors players – please fill in the following survey.

This week marks the last week of Twilight, and the last week of Bullants netball for 2024!

SCNA is hosting their annual Cystic Fibrosis Santa Hat Round across Tuesday and Wednesday, with Santa hats for sale on both nights and a bake sale on Tuesday! Be sure to bring along your cash for a Santa hat, as well as your baked goods to donate, with all proceeds from both going towards Cystic Fibrosis ACT.

Managers of Twilight teams, please look out for an email from us tonight! We’ll need to collect all of our bags back to prepare our equipment for next year, and we’ll be ready and waiting to collect these from you on Tuesday and Wednesday nights.

We’re looking forward to a super exciting 2025. Our new courts should be ready for our winter season, and SCNA was very excitingly successful in the Play Our Way program, which will provide funding for 4 additional courts, hopefully ready for season 2026.

If you can’t wait for our winter season to start, Arawang Netball Association are hosting a Monday evening competition in January for interested teams. While we won’t be able to support with organisation, team building or umpires, we’d love to see some Bullants teams playing together to get ready for winter. Keep an eye on their facebook page for more info.

In the meantime, keep your eyes peeled to the blog, we’ll be in touch early next year to let you know when registrations for 2025 open. We hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a safe holiday period, and we can’t wait to see you all back for 2025!

SCNA have cancelled all games for Wednesday night due to heavy rain and very wet courts.

With the rain, the courts are too wet to play tonight. All games are cancelled for the evening.

Fingers crossed for next week!

Following up on a successful AGM, we’d like to share our 2025 Bullants Netball committee. We’re all eager to jump into the new year, on our brand-new playing courts (after we finish our Twilight season of course). It is a very exciting time for us, having such a big and eager committee with lots of exciting ideas, and we’re hoping for our best season yet!

President: Peta Lange
Vice president: Jude Barton
Secretary: Deborah Battisson
Treasurer: Bernadette Mihaljevic

General members: Meghan Quinn, Elise O’Connor, Brittany Cattanach, Perdi Mitchell, Corrine Leonard, Kim O’Hara, Jazmine Smith, Belinda James, Natalie Power, Julie Glover, Lucy Mihaljevic, Dr Ben Swinton-Bland.

We’d also love to take this opportunity to thank our retiring committee members: Tania Ralston and Sarah Pardon. Thank you for all of your help over the years, we’re going to miss you!

The Bullants AGM is this Sunday 17 November 2024 at 2pm at SCNA. The work on the courts will commence this week, so please ensure you stay off the courts, we will be in the clubhouse!

All of the Bullants community is welcome and encouraged to attend.

All office-bearer roles (President, Treasurer & Secretary) and general committee member roles are to be vacated.  The 2025 office-bearer roles and general committee members are to be elected at the AGM. Please nominate using the attached Committee Nomination form and come along to the AGM. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qCYURiuz0Y0EZlBBrp0qknTy–Gz2WfLIWedF8-QuPA/edit

Please send an email to bullantsnetball@gmail.com if you are interested in joining the committee but unable to attend the AGM or if you have any questions. 

We look forward to seeing you. Even if you are not interested in an official role, everyone interested in volunteering for our club in any capacity is encouraged to come along. All welcome.

The AGM will take place on Sunday 17 November 2024 at 2.00 pm at the Deakin Netball Courts (Makin Place, Deakin). All of the Bullants community is welcome and encouraged to attend.

All office-bearer roles (President, Treasurer & Secretary) and general committee member roles are to be vacated.  The 2025 office-bearer roles and general committee members are to be elected at the AGM. Please nominate using the attached Committee Nomination form and come along to the AGM. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qCYURiuz0Y0EZlBBrp0qknTy–Gz2WfLIWedF8-QuPA/edit

Please send an email to bullantsnetball@gmail.com if you are interested in joining the committee but unable to attend the AGM or if you have any questions. 

We look forward to seeing you. Even if you are not interested in an official role, everyone interested in volunteering for our club in any capacity is encouraged to come along. All welcome.