HOST CLUSTER:
Northern Suburbs DATES: 7th - 9th May WHERE: Parap Netball Courts CONVENORS: Rozi Carbone PEC: Jenny Verrall Pre Event Meeting: Friday 2nd May via teleconference
As the boys rule with
AFL in Alice Springs, the girls will strut their stuff in Parap
on the netball courts. We can expect to see 115 13 – 16 years
old girls participate in the Netball Championships in May. The northern
suburbs cluster will host the event and preparations are already
well underway. Girls selected for the interstate squad will have
the opportunity to travel to South Australia to compete. Good luck
girls.
Daily Highlights –
Results -
At the end of Day 1 Desert storm Vixens, City Green, Northern Suburbs
1 and Rivers 1 remain undefeated.
Opening Ceremony Highlights –
Noni Harold did an excellent job at Student MC She spoke about her
trip to Sydney last year. “….. This was one of the physically
and mentally challenging, fun and undefinably awesome trips I have
ever been on” Sue Healy, principal of Casuarina Senior College
also spoke about her own involvement in Netball many years ago.
Memorable Moments
Hot hot hot. The Northern Suburbs girls set their shade in the middle
of an used netball courts, sadly they could not use the shade to
cover the entire netball complex.
Daily Highlights -
Closeness of the games. Rivers 1 and City Red played a thrilling
17 all draw. Desert Storm Vipers narrowly defeated City Red by one
goal. City Red obviously likes to keep their supporters on the edge
of their seats.
The big improvers of the Championships are Arnhem Blue who today
started scoring goals.
Game Results and Ladder –
Round 3 - Round 4 - Round 5 (see attachment)
At the completion of the Pool games City Green and Northern Suburbs
1 remain undefeated so tomorrow should see some closely contested
games during the cross-overs and onto the finals.
Rivers 1 will face up to City Green while Desert Storm Vixens will
play Northern Suburbs 1 in the struggle to see who will play the
final.
Memorable Moments (Sport related or otherwise) -
The PD presentation by Jess Moller who is off in two weeks time
to play Netball for the SS Australia team against SriLanka, New
Zealand, Pacific Island, Indigenous SS Australia ( Cindy Drover
and Acacia Lewis who are also playing at SSNT event are members
of this team)
Jess spoke and encouraged the students to work as a team using their
own unique skills. Jolette from Arnhem Green said “Jess was
interesting and said how important it is to work as a team”
The students from PARCS Blue welcomed the opportunity to meet and
find out information about students from other clusters.
Bill Adams the SSNT coach
told some of his stories about Jess.
A great photo of NTs 3 Australian Netball reps - friends today but
in 2 weeks time there will be competing against each other well
Jess against Cindy and Acacia.
Daily Highlights - Cross over games
A thrilling close game was played between Parcs Blue who defeated
Arnhem Blue narrowly 7-6 in the one of the Cross-over matches.
Nail Biting game between Rivers 1 and Desert Storm Vixens; equal
scores at full time lead to extra time. Final result was Desert
Storm victorious by 1, 21 - 20 in the play off for 3rd and 4th.
Closing Ceremony Highlights -
Student MC was Dan East from O’Loughlin College who represented
SSNT at Basketball in 2005 Pacific School Games. Dan spoke of how
his Pacific School Games experience set him on a pathway to further
representative honours.
MVP PLAYERS –
Rianna Powers - Arnhem Blue
Emily Boswell - PARCs Blue
Lucy Motlop - Northern Suburbs
Beth Ali - Arnhem Green
Stephanie Masters - Rivers 2
Jamie Collins - City Red
Michelle Winch - PARCs Yellow
Desert Storm Vipers - Toni McCarthy
Lisa Rioli - Rivers 1
Tahlia O’Cass - Desert Strom Vixens
Cassie Ruger - Northern Suburbs 1
Shannon Edwards - City Green
WINNING TEAM -
City Green
Kellie Berieffies, Shannon Edwards, Siobhan Evans, Nina Fitzgerald,
Elise Furness, Genevieve Harold, Erin Moriarty, Claire-Marie O’Byran,
Lucy Williams, Caitlin Wilson.
INTERSTATE SQUAD –
Tisharlia Abala - OLSH
- Desert Storm
Kelly Brieffies - Darwin High - City
Ella Deans - Casuarina Senior College - Northern Suburbs
Cindy Drover - Centralian Senior Secondary
College - Desert Storm
Shannon Edwards - Darwin High - City
Nina Fitzgerald - Darwin High - City
Kira Grant - Dripstone Middle - Northern Suburbs
Jessica Johannsen - OLSH - Desert Storm
Stevie Kelly - Katherine High - Rivers
Acacia Lewis - Centralian Senior Secondary
College - Desert Storm
Claire-Maree O’Brian - Darwin High - City
Tahlia O’Cass - Centralian Senior Secondary College - Desert
Storm
Caley Pannell - St Phillips - Desert Storm
Cassandra Ruger - O'Loughlin - Northern Suburbs
Deni Taulelei - Essington School - City
Lucy Williams - Darwin High - City
Sarah Winch - Kormilda - PARCS
Michelle WInch - Kormilda - PARCS