DURBAN Girls College and Ridgepark College will participate in the inaugural, SPAR Schoolgirls’ Fast 5’s netball tournament, that kicks off in August. The netball challenge will begin with four tournaments this year in four regions, with the intention of twelve teams taking to the courts in each area.
This new tournament rides the crest of the wave of excitement around netball in SA as after the Proteas finished fourth in the 15th Netball World Cup after a sensational and thrilling world cup campaign. During the World Cup, the Mayor of Liverpool handed over the Netball Federation Flag to the upcoming host for the 2023 Netball World Cup, Cape Town.
Netting the first tournament, Amanzimtoti will host at the Kuswag High School courts, which will have teams from around Durban on Saturday, 3 August, followed by Southcity Christian School in Margate hosting teams in the Southern KZN areas on Saturday 24 August. Empangeni High School will host Northern Coastal area on Saturday 31 August, and Voortrekker will host the final tournament with the Pietermaritzburg schools on Saturday 5 October.
The running of the programme will differ slightly from region to region, depending on the number of schools and if the hosts will run games in a round robin or pool game format. In the first tournament, Toti’s games will last an action packed 15 minutes each with the 11 teams playing a round robin, the match will have two 6 minute halves with a 2 minute break and 1 minute change over time allocation.
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