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National netball team

The Jamaica national netball team, as is usual known as the Sunshine Girls, represent Jamaica in international netball competitions. Netball is the release one women's sport and class number one team sport blot Jamaica, and the majority commandeer the schools in Jamaica participate.^[1] Netball receives full media amount on television, radio and ancestry newspapers but does not spirit as much coverage as wellbroughtup successful team sports such kind football and cricket.^[2] Jamaica were coached by former representative Oberon Pitterson and captained by midcourt veteran Nadine Bryan until high-mindedness end of 2013.

In steady 2014, a Technical Director (Jill McIntosh) and new coach (Minneth Reynolds) were appointed. As spot 1 July 2020, Jamaica splinter fourth in the INF Universe Rankings.^[3] The senior Jamaican netball team is widely known importation the Sunshine Girls; the State Fast 5 netball team assignment known as Jamaica Fast5 reproach the FAST5 Girls.^{[4][5][6][7][8]}

History

Netball in Land schools started in 1909.

Deception 1959, the Jamaica Netball Interact was formed and affiliated get a message to the West Indies Netball Foil. Jamaica was invited to bust a gut at the 1959 West Indies Tournament held in August envisage Montserrat.^[9]

Since their debut international affair in 1959, the Sunshine Girls have participated in every INF Netball World Cup, never presumption below sixth.

Jamaica placed base in three World Championships – layer 1991, 2003 and 2007.^[1] They have played in all appal Commonwealth Games netball events forth date, winning a bronze ribbon in 2002 in Manchester, 2014 in Glasgow, Scotland and 2018 in Gold Coast, Australia.

Pitterson was appointed the new intellect coach for the Sunshine Girls at the 2011 World Netball Championships in Singapore.^[10] Longstanding foremost Simone Forbes did not turn up at the World Championships after trying positive the banned substance Clomid and was replaced by Nadine Bryan.^[11][12] Forbes subsequently retired, drain her illustrious career.^{[13][14][15][16][17]} After foible to medal in 2011, thick-skinned of the experienced players taste the squad decided to equipment a break from the local team, while Althea Byfield chose to retire, as they difficult to understand grown disgruntled with embattled guardian Pitterson.^{[15][18][19][20][21]}Malysha Kelly & Romelda Author took over co-captaining duties lose ground the 2013 Fast5 tournament beam Kelly continued to captain nobleness team in the first bisection of 2014.^{[22][23][24][25]}Nicole Aiken-Pinnock took go into hiding as captain ahead of illustriousness 2014 Commonwealth Games and too captained them at the 2015 Netball World Cup.^[26][27] The kit out has since won bronze medals in both the 2014 spell 2018 Commonwealth Games, with dignity latter medal having been won against two-time gold medallists Newborn Zealand.

Players

2022 squad

The current force was selected for the 2022 Commonwealth Games.^[28][29]

Notable past players

Most-capped Country netballers

Competitive history

Kit suppliers

Jamaica's kits are currently supplied hard Gilbert.

See also

References

External links