Silver Fern Brown forced to retire from netball

10:31 AM   A knee injury has forced experienced Central Pulse and New Zealand shooter Jodi Brown to end her career just a week before the start of the trans-Tasman netball season.

Tasmania to host first netball Test since 1989

Leana de Bruin and Caitlin Bassett compete for the ball.

It's been a long time between drinks, but sports lovers on the Apple Isle will get a glimpse of one of netball's fiercest rivalries.

Vixens search for a new shooting star

Tegan Philip's injury leaves a giant hole for the Vixens.

Linda Pearce   Simone McKinnis knows what people are saying. Having lost her team's all-time leading goalscorer to a knee reconstruction three weeks before round one, the Melbourne Vixens coach concedes there is a perception the Vixens will struggle mightily this ANZ Championship season without Tegan Philip.

Vixens' shooting star Philip out for the season

Tegan Philip (right) is expected to step up.

Linda Pearce   Having only just regained star wing attack Madi Robinson from a knee reconstruction, the Melbourne Vixens have lost another key player, Tegan Philip, with a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament, the injury ending the athletic goal attack's season before it has begun.

AFL

ANZ Championship could make Giant move into Canberra

Netball ACT boss Adam Horner says the long-term goal is to have an ANZ Championship team in Canberra, but a similar ...

David Polkinghorne   Netball NSW, Netball ACT and GWS Giants working together on possible ANZ Championship bid.

Grand final woes driving Swifts to improve

Determination: Swifts captain Kim Green hopes to go one better this year.

David Sygall   The NSW Swifts face their nemesis, the Queensland Firebirds, in a trial match on Friday. And they've been preparing the hard way.

Vixens stronger after bad year

Stepping up: New Vixens captain Madi Robinson hopes to bounce back from injury this season.

Linda Pearce   While the script for the Melbourne Vixens' 2015 season was not the happily-ending version Simone McKinnis would have preferred, the coach considers it a tale from which much has been learnt.

Vixens captain backs rules trial

Home: Madi Robinson (left, versus Abbey McCulloch) is back with the Vixens

Linda Pearce   Melbourne Vixens captain Madi Robinson has applauded the decision to trial modified rules — including three-point goals and rolling interchanges — during netball's pre-season competition, while warning against excessive football-style meddling with the laws of the game.

Robinson to lead Melbourne Vixens

Down and out: injured Vixen Madi Robinson.

Linda Pearce   Madi Robinson has declared that nothing less than a championship will suffice in her first season as Melbourne Vixens' captain.

Netball ACT investigating feasibility of possible ANZ Championship bid

Canberra Darters player, Simone Nalder, left, and Victoria Fury player Emily Mannix in action during the 2015 Australian ...

Jon Tuxworth   Netball ACT remains hopeful of tabling an official expression of interest for inclusion into an expanded ANZ Championship.

Sweeping changes a sign of netball's huge potential

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 21:  Laura Geitz and Clare McMeniman of the Firebirds celebrate victory after the 2015 ANZ ...

An expanded competition, cross-code team ownership, more imports and competition for broadcasting rights. It's all happening in netball.

Diamonds complete clean sweep

Winners are grinners:  The Diamonds after winning the third match against England.

Joe Barton   Australia have completed a dominant clean sweep of their England tour, smashing the hosts 55-41 in the third and final Test.

Diamonds thrilled with win in match full of intrigue

Bailey Mes (left) of New Zealand battles with Laura Geitz (centre) and Sharni Layton of Australia.

Larissa Nicholson   In a game full of unknowns, the Australian netball team was thrilled to be able to knock off England in the first match of their series in the UK.

Diamonds win series opener against England

Standout performance: Sharni Layton.

Netball world champions Australia have weathered a fourth-quarter fightback to beat a feisty England side 58-52 in the opening match of their three-Test series.

Australian netball champs ready for England

Australian Diamonds coach Lisa Alexander: "I don't think you get anything out of practising losing".

Australia's youthful, new-look netball world champions are ready to achieve even greater feats as coach Lisa Alexander sets her sights on the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

Second big win for Opals, now face Brazil

Big game: Australia's Natalie Burton scored 15 points and made 13 rebounds in the win against Venezuela at the Rio ...

Roy Ward   The Opals took a sizeable win over a young Venezuelan side but now face Brazil who will push them to the limit.

Swifts star Layton thrilled to be Diamonds vice-captain

Ready: Sharni Layton is relishing the increased responsibility.

Jotham Lian   Sharni Layton is ready to step from the shadows of Laura Geitz and Julie Corletto and stamp her on-court commitment and vocal dominance in the Australian Diamonds upcoming Test series against England.

Diamonds out for revenge against England

Sharni Layton is determined to shine again for the Diamonds.

Tom Decent   To understand how Australia triumphed in the Netball World Cup last August, you have to go back three years to a forgettable series against the old enemy that has coach Lisa Alexander and her players focused on exacting sweet revenge in the coming weeks.

Diamonds, other gems, and the year that was

Linda Pearce

Linda Pearce   A look at the moments that shaped netball in 2015, and what lies ahead in 2016.

Netball Australia says football clubs could own team in ANZ Championship

Big plans: Netball Australia CEO Kate Palmer.

Tom Decent   Netball Australia chief executive Kate Palmer says she would welcome the idea of professional football club - be it an AFL team such as the Sydney Swans - putting their hand up to start up one of three new ANZ Championship teams set to be included in the 2017 season.

Comments 1