Brigg and district women are being encouraged to get back into netball, with sessions starting in the New Year at Glanford Leisure Centre - still known by many as Brigg Leisure Centre. Our local sessions will be part of a programme across both banks of the Humber. Here's what the organisers have to say....
Thousands of women have played and enjoyed the game but have lost touch with the sport since school. Get Back into Netball, a new initiative which begins in mid-January has been created to help attract these people back into the sport throughout the region.
Women may have played the sport during school days and although they may have enjoyed the sport and the competition this offered it may have taken a back seat to work and family considerations in past years. This initiative offers an opportunity for people to come and play the sport once again in a friendly environment where fun and participation has more significance than competition, technical skill or winning matches. The emphasis to come and play, make new friends and have a couple of hours of exercise within the netball environment. There will be experts at hand to offer advice on rules or technical skills but the main emphasis will be on trying out the sport once again without your old PE teacher breathing down your neck!
Back to Netball sessions were first developed last year and six clubs were created in this period with some people playing netball for the first time in 30 years. This is to be expanded across the region and open up this opportunity to local ladies keen to regain the old netball buzz.
One-hour sessions begin in January at a range of venues across Hull and East Yorkshire, Glanford Leisure Centre's being on Thursdays, 9.30am-10.30am. The cost is £2.80.
Contact Marie Bailey on 01724 297181 or email via this link MARIE BAILEY
For more information about the initiative you can contact netball development officer Pauline Hardy on 07540 126591 or email pauline.hardy@englandnetball.co.uk
More details of the courses can be found on the news section of the Humber Sports Partnership website www.humbersport.com
Never played netball, myself. but why are the nets kept at the same height regardless of the players' maturity?
ReplyDeleteIn football, little 'uns have smaller pitches, goals and balls.