Australia (Commonwealth) _ Jamaicans have been featured prominently on the Suncorp Super Netball League records, as the league began a few weeks ago.
It is Jhaniele Fowler-Nembard’s domination that is leading the Jamaicans and all the players in the league.
After the West Coast Fever defeated the New South Wales Swifts 75-59 with 61 goals, Fowler-Nemhard leads the Nissan Net Points category with 490.5 points. With 243 goals from 248 attempts, Fowler-Nemhard leads all scorers as well. After scoring 148 goals from 171 tries, Romelda Aiken-George, another Jamaican, is fourth on the goals aggregate list and is also having a great start.
However, seizing second opportunities is where Aiken-George excels. The tall, lanky goalie has led the league in assists with 22 goals, making her the most powerful player in terms of rebounding thus far. In the category, Fowler-Nembhard ranks seventh with 13 offensive rebounds.
Shanice Beckford has also been gaining ground and increasing the number of times she makes two-point monster shots by capitalizing on Fowler-Nembhard’s supremacy in the circle. With 86 center passes, the most in the league, she has also been putting her team in the attacking third most of the time. Alice Teague-Neeld, Beckford’s teammate, and Liz Watson of the Sunshine Coast Lightning have both received 86 center passes.
With eight defensive rebounds, Shamera Sterling-Humphrey is third on the list of the league’s greatest defenders. He also leads the league in deflections (27) and interceptions (15). With Latanya Wilson joining Sterling-Humphrey at the Adelaide Thunderbirds, the two have formed a dangerous defensive tandem. Wilson now ranks second with 14 intercepts and fourth with 22 deflections.
The Super Netball League is a professional netball league that consists of teams from all around Australia. It is mostly known by its sponsored moniker, Suncorp Super Netball (SSN). As Australia’s premier netball league in 2017, it replaced the trans-Tasman ANZ Championship, which featured teams from New Zealand as too.
An impartial commission has been in charge of the league’s governance on behalf of Netball Australia since 2019. Suncorp Group is its primary sponsor.The champions of the first Suncorp Super Netball were Sunshine Coast Lightning.
2019 saw the launch of the Team Girls Cup, an organized round-robin competition named for the 2017 campaign of the same name that attempts to lower the junior netball dropout rate.[42]The eight teams in the league are split into two pools, and each team plays every other club in its pool once. After that, a match between the two best-ranked pool teams determines the overall rankings throughout the combined pools, and a champion is declared.
The same location serves as the site for all three days of the matches. The event has so far been held in Brisbane, Melbourne, and the Gold Coast.
Netball Australia said in January 2019 that it will establish a separate commission to serve as Suncorp Super Netball’s governing body.[64]They announced the names of five commissioners in April 2019, among them the CEO of Netball Australia, Marne Fechner. May and August of 2019 saw the appointment of two more commissioners.
Netball Australia announced in October 2016 that Suncorp Group would be its primary partner from 2017 until 2021. The name rights to the new league were included in the arrangement. This arrangement was extended for a further five years in August of 2021.]The Australian Institute of Sport, Nissan Australia, Origin Energy, HCF, and other sponsors Energy, McDonald’s, ASICS, Gilbert Netball, and HCF.
In international netball tournaments, the Jamaica national netball team—also referred to as the Sunshine Girls—represents Jamaica. Almost all Jamaican schools play netball, which is the top team sport and the top women’s sport in the country. Although netball is widely covered by the media on radio, television, and newspapers, it is not as well covered as team sports with lower levels of popularity like football and cricket. From the end of 2013 till then, midcourt seasoned veteran Nadine Bryan commanded Jamaica, under the guidance of former representative Oberon Pitterson. A new coach, Minneth Reynolds, and a Technical Director, Jill McIntosh, were hired at the beginning of 2014. Jamaica is ranked fourth in the INF World Rankings as of July 1, 2020. The Jamaican Fast 5 netball team is referred to as Jamaica Fast5 or the FAST5 Girls, whereas the senior Jamaican netball team is commonly known as the Sunshine Girls.
